The Perugia Chronicle
Market24 Aug 2026
Davide Riccardi puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Perugia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Loïc Mbe Soh due for a Perugia medical
Everything agreed with Sparta Prague, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
5 academy graduates step up at Perugia
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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Door shut on Salvatore Elia
Perugia asked and Cremonese said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market24 Aug 2026
Perugia promote Pietro Ceccarelli from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pietro Ceccarelli has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market24 Aug 2026
Perugia promote Simone Russo from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Simone Russo has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market24 Aug 2026
Perugia promote Fabrizio Casadei from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Fabrizio Casadei has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan move for Arbnor Mucolli is in the works
Perugia have made the call to IFK Goteborg. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Francesco Lisi 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.
In brief
- Boardroom Perugia turn down the training-ground plan
- The dugout Carlo Salvatore knocks on the manager’s door
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: Guidonia Montecelio at home