The Casertana Gazette
Squad24 Aug 2026
Jacopo Manconi 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 Casertana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Salford City tell Casertana: Jay Bird 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Casertana try to borrow Mikhail Markin
Spartak Trnava have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan move for Patryk Palat is in the works
Casertana have made the call to Lech. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Casertana say no to the training-ground money
The plan went upstairs and came back down. Nothing about that will make a headline anywhere else, and everybody who works at the training ground will remember it for years.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The formation has left João Costa behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Casertana will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Looking ahead24 Aug 2026
Marco Toscano goes back to face Siracusa
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Marco Toscano’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Casertana needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Squad24 Aug 2026
João Costa remains an outsider
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Casertana would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Loris Bacchetti wants to know why he earns less
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and Casertana have no good answer.
In brief
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: Siracusa at home
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Alessandro Caporale