The Altamura Herald
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Donny van der Lijcke will not be coming to Altamura
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at AZ is saying, and nobody at Altamura is enjoying the guessing.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Altamura
Lucão and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Altamura count the cost of losing Flavio Bertolini
33 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A loan move for Mattia Esposito is in the works
Altamura have made the call to Sorrento. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Máximo Soto is a square peg at Altamura
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Antonio Arena has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Altamura know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
In brief
- Market Altamura borrow Antonio Arena
- Market Vittorio Agostinelli goes out on loan