The Modena Sentinel
Market24 Aug 2026
Michele Pezzolato says no to Guidonia Montecelio
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Michele Pezzolato had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Door shut on Lorenzo Palmisani
Modena asked and Frosinone said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market24 Aug 2026
Paulo Azzi wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
No thanks: Sebastián Driussi rejects the move
Modena had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at River Plate, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Modena
Fabio Gerli and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
1 academy players handed senior numbers at Modena
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market24 Aug 2026
Michele Grasso steps up from the Modena academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Michele Grasso has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Modena
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Giuseppe Ambrosino was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan move for Fabricio Iacovich is in the works
Modena have made the call to Estudiantes. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
In brief
- Market Lumezzane expected to open talks for Matteo Cotali
- Boardroom Modena say no to the training-ground money
- Looking ahead Manuel De Luca goes back to face Sampdoria