Pote

Central Midfielder - Fiorentina
21 Aug 2026
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Marked for Pote

3 Edition

The Fiorentina Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market17 Aug 2026

Fiorentina spend $23.6M to raise the standard

This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $23.6M has been paid because Richard Gomez is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Como tell Fiorentina: Nico Paz 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Richard Gomez gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Richard Gomez has just signed for Fiorentina, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Pote 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 Fiorentina this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Bassidy Sanogo signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Bassidy Sanogo commits to Fiorentina for another 4 years.

Squad17 Aug 2026

No place for Richard Gomez in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Fiorentina are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

The dugout17 Aug 2026

Bassidy Sanogo knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Fiorentina, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Looking ahead17 Aug 2026

Marin Pongračić goes back to face Lecce

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Marin Pongračić’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Fiorentina needing him to play as if none of it matters.

Market17 Aug 2026

The Christ Inao Oulaï story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Christ Inao Oulaï signs something — a contract at Fiorentina or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Fiorentina Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Richard Gomez due for a Fiorentina medical

Everything agreed with La Equidad, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Fiorentina make their move for Nico Paz

$35.1M on the table at Como. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Door shut on Maxence Caqueret

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

Market10 Aug 2026

Cremonese come back empty-handed

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

Market10 Aug 2026

David De Gea wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Fiorentina hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Mateo Pellegrino signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mateo Pellegrino and Fiorentina agree another 5 years.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Fiorentina

Pote and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Words at Fiorentina training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Majkol Luka 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

7 new faces, and Fiorentina are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief

1 Edition

The Fiorentina Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market3 Aug 2026

Dodo wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Fiorentina hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Dodo signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dodo commits to Fiorentina for another 4 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Fiorentina

Pote and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Elba Rashani arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Elba Rashani has, at Fiorentina, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Market3 Aug 2026

The clock runs on Beto's contract

49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words at Fiorentina training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marin Pongračić 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 dugout3 Aug 2026

Mateo Pellegrino knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Mateo Pellegrino trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market3 Aug 2026

Elba Rashani brings the grey hairs Fiorentina lacked

At 33, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.

Market3 Aug 2026

Still no ink between Fiorentina and Luca Lezzerini

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Fiorentina, another week without a signature from Luca Lezzerini.

In brief

  • The terraces The glare is on Elba Rashani
  • The dugout Dodo keeps his manager's vote