Leonardo Baraldi

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Monza U18
15 Apr 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Leonardo Baraldi

138 Edition

The Monza Sentinel

19 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

18 matches without a win for Monza

The run now stands at 18, and the questions being asked around Monza are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Kevin Martins 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 Monza this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Monza come up short against Como

Como left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Monza lose Leonardo Baraldi

22 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Loan watch

10 goals on loan for Jordan Longhi

25 appearances at Al-Qadisiyah and the goals keep coming. Monza are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

The dugout

Sebastiano Altieri answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

Eddy Cabianca left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Eddy Cabianca will call it something else in private.

The dugout

Monza pick somebody else ahead of Eddy Cabianca

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Francesco Borriello

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

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The Monza Sentinel

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Patrick Ciurria: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Monza have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Matteo Pessina 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 Monza this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Monza

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 targets

Door shut on Giacomo Raspadori

Monza asked and AS Roma said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

Monza see off Cremonese

Three points for Monza, 2‑0 the final word against Cremonese in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Market

Gabriele Borghi steps up from the Monza academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gabriele 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.

Market

Riccardo Farina steps up from the Monza academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Riccardo Farina 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.

Market

Leonardo Baraldi steps up from the Monza academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Leonardo Baraldi 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.

Market

One of our own: Mattia Bruno joins the Monza first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mattia Bruno is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief