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Upbeat
Squad17 Jul 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Thomas Sandon commits to Vicenza for another 5 years.
Squad17 Jul 2028
42 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad17 Jul 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Upbeat
Squad8 May 2028
Claudio Morra is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.60 with 38 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Match6 May 2028
19 unbeaten for Vicenza
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 19 matches without defeat is a foundation Vicenza did not have in the autumn.
Market8 May 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Vicenza can pretend not to have heard.
Market8 May 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Vicenza is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad8 May 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Daniel Cappelletti commits to Vicenza for another 2 years.
Match6 May 2028
A 1-0 win over Lumezzane, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Boardroom8 May 2028
$989.2K on the table at Vicenza
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
Squad8 May 2028
The manager makes an example of Andrea Moscati
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market8 May 2028
The name of Filippo Costa keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Vicenza say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Match1 Jan 2028
6 matches without a win for Vicenza
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Vicenza are no longer polite ones.
Squad3 Jan 2028
18 goals and a season average of 7.32. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Boardroom3 Jan 2028
Vicenza release $989.2K for the manager
The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
Loan watch3 Jan 2028
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Vicenza, and 2 appearances in 25 say he has earned the hearing.
Match1 Jan 2028
A 2-2 draw with Union Brescia leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad3 Jan 2028
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Crisis
Market20 Dec 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match18 Dec 2027
4 matches without a win for Vicenza
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Vicenza are no longer polite ones.
Match18 Dec 2027
0-1 to AlbinoLeffe, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad20 Dec 2027
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Riccardo Gagno knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Squad20 Dec 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Mattia Vitale is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.23 with 2 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
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Upbeat
Squad29 Nov 2027
17 goals and a season average of 7.42. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match27 Nov 2027
9 unbeaten for Vicenza
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Vicenza did not have in the autumn.
Squad29 Nov 2027
The medical room confirms 94 days on the sidelines for Elia Pomiato, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match27 Nov 2027
A 2-2 draw with Triestina leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad29 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Lapo Fondi
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market29 Nov 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Vicenza know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Match11 Sep 2027
6 unbeaten for Vicenza
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Vicenza did not have in the autumn.
Loan watch13 Sep 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Vicenza, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Match11 Sep 2027
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Nicola Rauti 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 Vicenza, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The terraces13 Sep 2027
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Squad13 Sep 2027
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Market13 Sep 2027
The name of Mattia Vitale keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Vicenza say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Shifted about, taken off before the hour, asked to do somebody else's running — Daniel Cappelletti has had enough of being useful and would like to be picked. Vicenza know, and have known for weeks.
Market13 Sep 2027
Vicenza spent the window trying to move Giuseppe Cuomo on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.
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Steady
Squad9 Aug 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Daniel Cappelletti commits to Vicenza for another 2 years.
Market9 Aug 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Vicenza will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market9 Aug 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Vicenza know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad9 Aug 2027
A new face in his position, and Matteo Della Morte suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Vicenza have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
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Steady
Squad2 Aug 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Daniel Cappelletti and Vicenza agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad2 Aug 2027
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
Vicenza release $134.7K for the manager
The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Vicenza, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market2 Aug 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Vicenza know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Market21 Jun 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Vicenza have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market21 Jun 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Vicenza they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad21 Jun 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market21 Jun 2027
Marco Carraro has left for Modena in a $660.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Market21 Jun 2027
Cristian Samaritani is 20, and Vicenza have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Squad21 Jun 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Raul Talarico 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 Vicenza, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The terraces21 Jun 2027
Supporters make their feelings known about Riccardo Gagno
The speculation has reached the stands, and the stands have answered. Vicenza would like this settled before it becomes the only thing anybody asks about.
Squad21 Jun 2027
A new face in his position, and Claudio Morra suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Vicenza have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
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Steady
Market24 May 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Vicenza they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad24 May 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad24 May 2027
Marco Carraro 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 Vicenza, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market24 May 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Vicenza know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Loan watch24 May 2027
36 appearances away from home and 4 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Market24 May 2027
1 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Vicenza money.
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Steady
Squad3 May 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market3 May 2027
Armand Rada has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Vicenza they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match1 May 2027
AlbinoLeffe made Vicenza work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Boardroom3 May 2027
$134.7K on the table at Vicenza
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
Squad3 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Giuseppe Cuomo
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad3 May 2027
A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Vicenza lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.
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Steady
Market22 Mar 2027
Marco Carraro has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Vicenza they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market22 Mar 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match20 Mar 2027
Three points for Vicenza, 2-0 the final word against Pergolettese in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad22 Mar 2027
5 goals and a season average of 7.27. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Boardroom22 Mar 2027
Wages eat 92% of everything Vicenza earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad22 Mar 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market22 Mar 2027
The name of Mattia Vitale keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Vicenza say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Shifted about, taken off before the hour, asked to do somebody else's running — Alessio Tribuzzi has had enough of being useful and would like to be picked. Vicenza know, and have known for weeks.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Michele Cavion asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Market25 Jan 2027
Loris Zonta hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Vicenza can pretend not to have heard.
Match23 Jan 2027
4 matches without a win for Vicenza
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Vicenza are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
123% of the income goes out in wages at Vicenza
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match23 Jan 2027
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Vicenza lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A season average of 7.20 with 3 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad25 Jan 2027
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Market25 Jan 2027
Vicenza have made Armand Rada available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Steady
Match28 Dec 2026
Vicenza up to position 3
27 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Vicenza have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match26 Dec 2026
8 unbeaten for Vicenza
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Vicenza did not have in the autumn.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages eat 214% of everything Vicenza earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Match26 Dec 2026
Three points for Vicenza, 1-0 the final word against Lumezzane in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad28 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Nicola Rauti
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match19 Dec 2026
7 unbeaten for Vicenza
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Vicenza did not have in the autumn.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Steady
Market2 Nov 2026
Marco Carraro hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Vicenza can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 252% of everything Vicenza earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match31 Oct 2026
A 2-2 draw with Dolomiti Bellunesi leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad2 Nov 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Vicenza have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I will know when it is time. I am not there yet.” Daniel Cappelletti is 35, with 0 appearances behind him, and Vicenza will have to plan for whichever answer comes.