The Sampdoria Sentinel
Market7 Jun 2027
Mattia Viti hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Sampdoria can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A falling-out at Sampdoria
Salvatore Esposito and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Real improvement from Leonardo Rodella at Sampdoria
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Leonardo Rodella is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market7 Jun 2027
One of our own: Manuel Dalla Costa joins the Sampdoria first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Manuel Dalla Costa is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market7 Jun 2027
One of our own: Raffaele Basile joins the Sampdoria first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Raffaele Basile is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market7 Jun 2027
Matteo Farina steps up from the Sampdoria academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Matteo 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words at Sampdoria training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fabio Depaoli is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Filippo Delli Carri
“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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A place in the month's best eleven for Bjorn Meijer
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Bjorn Meijer has come out of that comparison in the side, and Sampdoria have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
In brief
- The dugout Mattia Viti knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout Gaëtan Coucke has become a man the manager trusts
- Boardroom Open for business: Sampdoria enter the window