The Empoli Post
Market24 Aug 2026
Crotone come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Empoli did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
4 academy players handed senior numbers at Empoli
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Andrea Fulignati 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
One of our own: Gennaro Testa joins the Empoli first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gennaro Testa is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market24 Aug 2026
Federico Marchetti steps up from the Empoli academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Federico Marchetti 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
Empoli promote Stefano Marini from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Stefano Marini 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.
In brief
- Squad Maj Blažič in a row with a teammate
- Boardroom Empoli spend it where nobody looks
- Squad The manager plants his flag on Daniel Fila
- Squad Marco Curto back in training