The Parma Gazette
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
$12.5M settles it between the clubs for Ivan Smolčić
Como have accepted the money. What Parma do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
3 academy graduates step up at Parma
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.
Market24 Aug 2026
One of our own: Renato Bertolini joins the Parma first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Renato Bertolini 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
One of our own: Marcello Caruso joins the Parma first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marcello Caruso 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
Paolo Morelli steps up from the Parma academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Paolo Morelli 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Como take the points off Parma
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Emanuele Valeri
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Simone Russini 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Appearance number 100 for Benja Cremaschi
100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
In brief
- The dugout Nicolò Mariani faces the questions
- Squad Dean Vranici in a row with a teammate
- Looking ahead Parma take on the side everybody is chasing