The Fiorentina Chronicle
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Albert Guðmundsson runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A move Honest Ahanor would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Honest Ahanor is living that version at Fiorentina, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Fiorentina
Moise Kean was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Cher Ndour scored one and made one — 7.81
Two of the goals had his name somewhere on them, which is the afternoon a manager wants from anybody asked to both create and finish. 7.81, and 2 involvements.
Market24 Aug 2026
Fiorentina sign Honest Ahanor, one for the future
Honest Ahanor is 18, and Fiorentina have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Fiorentina
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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Eyes on Majkol Luka again
The phone has started ringing about Majkol Luka again, and this time the name on the line is Campobasso. Fiorentina are listening politely and promising nothing.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Cher Ndour
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match22 Aug 2026
Moise Kean sends Fiorentina past Lecce
It finished 2‑0, and it was Moise Kean’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Fiorentina.
In brief
- Market Silvio De Angelis steps up from the Fiorentina academy
- Market Fiorentina promote Claudio Moretti from within
- Player ratings Moise Kean in the eights