The Carpi Herald
Market23 Aug 2027
Lumezzane come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Carpi did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
A new deal for Matteo Locatelli
The board have signed the man in the dugout to a longer contract, which says more than any statement of support. Stability is easy to promise and costly to keep.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Davide Zagnoni 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 Carpi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Carpi
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Ravenna tell Carpi: Pierluca Luciani 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
One of our own: Danilo De Carli joins the Carpi first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Danilo De Carli is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market23 Aug 2027
One of our own: Claudio Vignali joins the Carpi first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Claudio Vignali is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market23 Aug 2027
Alessio Marchetti steps up from the Carpi academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Alessio 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.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
No investment in the facilities at Carpi
Nothing about this will be in a press release. A plan went upstairs, came back rejected, and the version of the club that would have existed in three years' time just quietly stopped being possible.
In brief
- The dugout Niccolò Pietra asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout A door opens for Leonardo Morosini
- Squad Francisco Fraga still has not settled