The Mantova Herald
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Fabricio Iacovich will not be coming to Mantova
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Estudiantes is saying, and nobody at Mantova is enjoying the guessing.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
1 academy players handed senior numbers at Mantova
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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
AS Roma tell Mantova: Kostas Koulierakis is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market24 Aug 2026
One of our own: Michele Ventura joins the Mantova first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Michele Ventura is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad24 Aug 2026
David Wieser 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 targets24 Aug 2026
A loan move for Fabricio Iacovich is in the works
Mantova have made the call to Estudiantes. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
In brief
- Boardroom Mantova say no to the training-ground money
- Looking ahead Mantova travel to Carrarese
- Squad Kostas Chrysopoulos is out on the grass again