The Perugia Chronicle
Squad3 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Matteo Peruzzi
40 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Perugia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Luigi Canotto signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Luigi Canotto and Perugia agree another 2 years.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Porto tell Perugia: Zaidu Sanusi 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Perugia
Paolo Bartolomei 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Giuseppe Carriero 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months and counting on Luca Gemello
Still no offer on the table, and Luca Gemello’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
In brief
- Market Talks stall between Perugia and Paolo Bartolomei
- The dugout Christian Langella asks for a word with the manager
- Market Noah Lewis leaves for nothing
- Market Ruben Rinaldini leaves for nothing