The Campobasso Herald
Market23 Aug 2027
Claudio Cristallo 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 The request is on a desk at Campobasso, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Campobasso
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 targets23 Aug 2027
Door shut on Konan N'Dri
Campobasso asked and Modena said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market23 Aug 2027
Franco Locatelli steps up from the Campobasso academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Franco Locatelli 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
Campobasso promote Raffaele Troisi from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Raffaele Troisi 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
Campobasso promote Gregorio Testa from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gregorio Testa 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
Alessandro Galeandro 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.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
No investment in the facilities at Campobasso
Nothing about this will be in a press release. A plan went upstairs, came back rejected, and the version of the club that would have existed in three years' time just quietly stopped being possible.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
The manager makes Edoardo Lancini a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Campobasso. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
In brief
- The dugout Francesco Parisi knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Claudio Cristallo
- Match A season winding down at Campobasso