Sandro Marchetti

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Bologna U20
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Marked for Sandro Marchetti

106 Edition

The Bologna Herald

7 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad7 Aug 2028

Sandro Marchetti damages knee ligaments — 19 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 19 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Boardroom7 Aug 2028

Bologna spell it out for Michele Costa

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Michele Costa has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Squad7 Aug 2028

Nico López keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bologna may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market7 Aug 2028

Oviedo come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Bologna did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad7 Aug 2028

Tempers go at Bologna

Łukasz Skorupski was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad7 Aug 2028

Words at Bologna training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Riccardo Orsolini 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.

Market7 Aug 2028

Mattersburg are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Bologna will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Market7 Aug 2028

The Thijs Dallinga question follows Bologna around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Thijs Dallinga’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Boardroom7 Aug 2028

Bologna pull $24.2M back off the table

The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.

In brief

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105 Edition

The Bologna Herald

31 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad31 Jul 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Sandro Marchetti

27 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bologna lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market31 Jul 2028

Nicolò Cambiaghi 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 Bologna, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom31 Jul 2028

The scrutiny sharpens at Bologna

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Bologna is running low.

Market31 Jul 2028

Bologna say no — this time

The offer from Spezia for Gennaro Anatriello was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad31 Jul 2028

Łukasz Skorupski 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 Bologna this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad31 Jul 2028

Manuel Rosetti is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad31 Jul 2028

Riccardo Orsolini 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.

Boardroom31 Jul 2028

Bologna agree a free transfer for Bartosz Tomaszewski

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Market31 Jul 2028

Bologna bring in an old head

Claudio Morra is 33 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

In brief