The Empoli Post
Squad24 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Edoardo Saporiti out for 69 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Empoli will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market24 Aug 2026
Only the photograph left for Gabriele Guarino
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Gabriele Guarino will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Empoli the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Antonio Candela in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Empoli this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Empoli
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Andrea Fulignati falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market24 Aug 2026
One of our own: Leandro Romano joins the Empoli first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Leandro Romano is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Empoli promote Roberto Cecconi from within
- Market Empoli promote Ciro Moretti from within
- Squad Too much change too quickly at Empoli
- Boardroom Empoli spend it where nobody looks