Marked for Sebastiano Scalise
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces19 Jul 2027
Andrea Sergio Mazza has gone, the accounts have $440.0K in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
The deal with AC Milan is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Market19 Jul 2027
Padova paid $440.0K and Giana Erminio took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad19 Jul 2027
14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Giana Erminio told Nicolas Previtali something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Market19 Jul 2027
He is 19, and nobody at Giana Erminio signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
AS Roma have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Maximiliano Erazo and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Jun 2027
The decline has begun for Luca Ferri
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 36 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Giana Erminio is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
Giana Erminio asked and FC Metz said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad21 Jun 2027
44 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market21 Jun 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Giana Erminio, another week without a signature from Nicolas Previtali.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nicolas Previtali trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tommaso Duca was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Alexander Zenti's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
Luca Ruffini gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Luca Ruffini is on it.
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Steady
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Giana Erminio have done the hard part with Lazio, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Alesandro Comita and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Federico Renda and Giana Erminio agree another 4 years.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nicolas Previtali, and the manager let it.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sebastiano Scalise has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Leonardo Bonaventura 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.