The Potenza Chronicle
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Potenza
Luca Petrungaro 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
A move Ignacio Della Vedova 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. Ignacio Della Vedova is living that version at Potenza, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Yuri Rocchetti 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Alessandro Micai
Potenza asked and Spezia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
Alessandro Messina steps up from the Potenza academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Alessandro Messina 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Sebastiano Gamberini steps up from the Potenza academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sebastiano Gamberini 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Matteo Sala joins the Potenza first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Matteo Sala is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Potenza promote Cesare Villa from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Cesare Villa 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
A loan move for Manuel Martic is in the works
Potenza have made the call to Catania. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
In brief
- Transfer targets Potenza try to borrow Filippo Romagna
- Squad Tobías Córdoba signs a new deal