Gianluca Caprari

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Padova
5 Sep 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Gianluca Caprari

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The Padova Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Christian Pastina says no to Pianese

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Christian Pastina had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Gianluca Caprari yet — 8.14

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.14 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Player ratings

Andy Diouf was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Market

Siracusa watching Giovanni Giunti

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Padova have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Match

Padova find a way past Pescara

Pescara made Padova work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Amit Mamut 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 Padova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

14 new faces, and Padova 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.

Squad

Words at Padova training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sebastiano Previato 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 dugout

Edoardo Pugliese has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Edoardo Pugliese on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

In brief

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The Padova Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Gianluca Caprari signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gianluca Caprari commits to Padova for another 2 years.

Squad

Marco Pompetti 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 Padova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Eyes on Alessandro Seghetti again

The phone has started ringing about Alessandro Seghetti again, and this time the name on the line is Cavese. Padova are listening politely and promising nothing.

Market

Padova and Gianluca Caprari are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Market

Nobody at Padova has picked up the phone to Marco Pompetti

49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Padova

11 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

In brief