The Ravenna Post
Squad23 Aug 2027
Joshua Tenkorang breaks a bone — 34 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 34 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market23 Aug 2027
Spezia come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Ravenna did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Željko Vitorović is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Stefano Okaka in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ravenna this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Cristian Spini has improved at 26, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Ravenna
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.
In brief
- Market Massimo Monteleone steps up from the Ravenna academy
- Market One of our own: Marco De Angelis joins the Ravenna first team
- Market Ravenna promote Roberto Villa from within
- Boardroom No investment in the facilities at Ravenna