The Ospitaletto Sentinel
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
The paperwork begins on Vincenzo Napolano
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Ospitaletto have done the hard part with Perugia, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Ospitaletto
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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Marcello Possenti 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.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Picerno tell Ospitaletto: Giuseppe Coppola 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
One of our own: Gabriele Lombardi joins the Ospitaletto first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gabriele Lombardi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market23 Aug 2027
Gianluca Bertolini steps up from the Ospitaletto academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gianluca Bertolini 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
Ospitaletto promote Umberto Raimondi from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Umberto Raimondi 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
Ospitaletto promote Gianluca Bianco from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gianluca Bianco 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Agustín Graneros 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 Ospitaletto this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
- Squad Alexandro Ravelli signs on for more
- Boardroom Ospitaletto say no to the training-ground money
- Squad The formation has left Alexandro Ravelli behind