The Perugia Chronicle
Market27 Aug 2029
Leonardo Vinti has said yes to PSM
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Perugia have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market27 Aug 2029
Luca Moro asks to leave Perugia
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market27 Aug 2029
Only the photograph left for Mattia Turella
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mattia Turella will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Perugia the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad27 Aug 2029
Words exchanged at Perugia
Luigi Canotto and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Boardroom27 Aug 2029
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Perugia
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.
Squad27 Aug 2029
A row about effort at Perugia
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matteo Angeli was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets27 Aug 2029
Ternana tell Perugia: Nicolò Baldo 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.
Market27 Aug 2029
Ruggero Borghi steps up from the Perugia academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ruggero Borghi 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.
The dugout27 Aug 2029
Iván Esculino gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- Boardroom A promise the Perugia board did not keep
- Transfer targets A loan move for Luke Harvey is in the works
- The dugout Matteo Polizzi has become a man the manager trusts