The Virtus Entella Gazette
Market24 Aug 2026
Ujpest come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Virtus Entella did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Jalal Abdullai
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Virtus Entella have done the hard part with Sint-Truiden, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
3 academy graduates step up at Virtus Entella
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Door shut on Tomás Galván
Virtus Entella asked and River Plate 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
Marco Lucchesi steps up from the Virtus Entella academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Marco Lucchesi 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Ciro Sartori steps up from the Virtus Entella academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ciro Sartori 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Raffaele Pasquali steps up from the Virtus Entella academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Raffaele Pasquali 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
Words exchanged at Virtus Entella
Matteo Carbone 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.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Virtus Entella say no to the training-ground money
The plan went upstairs and came back down. Nothing about that will make a headline anywhere else, and everybody who works at the training ground will remember it for years.
In brief
- Looking ahead A test against the best for Virtus Entella
- Squad No place for Joselito in the new shape
- Looking ahead Davide Bariti faces his old club