Marked for Gregorio Luperini
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market25 Jan 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.
Match23 Jan 2027
4 matches without a win for Livorno
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Livorno are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad25 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Livorno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match23 Jan 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
Wages eat 128% of everything Livorno 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.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market18 Jan 2027
The fee is $150.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. AlbinoLeffe drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Gregorio Luperini 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ismaël Sylla and Livorno agree another 3 years.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 18 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Livorno know it.
Market18 Jan 2027
Ismaël Sylla is 20, and Livorno 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.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 14 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad18 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad11 Jan 2027
A season average of 7.12 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Livorno know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Market11 Jan 2027
Leon Baldi 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 Livorno can pretend not to have heard.
Market11 Jan 2027
Only the photograph left for Davide Gentile
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Davide Gentile will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Livorno the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Livorno may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad11 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Livorno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market4 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Livorno can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Livorno may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad4 Jan 2027
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Livorno have had the benefit of it.
Market4 Jan 2027
Only the photograph left for Luca Bonassi
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Luca Bonassi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Livorno the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Gregorio Luperini 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.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Marked 8.88 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nicola Falasco, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Emanuele Cicerelli 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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
276% of the income goes out in wages at Catania
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.
Match26 Dec 2026
A bad afternoon for Catania against Picerno
0‑1 to Picerno, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Romeo Vučić, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Dec 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Klāvs Bethers knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad28 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Livorno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match26 Dec 2026
A 2‑1 win over Gubbio, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages eat 254% of everything Livorno 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.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
A performance of 8.81 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Marked 8.67 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Marked 8.55 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Mario Noce gets it from the manager
“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.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Dec 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market21 Dec 2026
Kevin Haveri 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 Livorno can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Defensive actions: 24. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Gregorio Luperini 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
Three points for Livorno, 2‑0 the final word against Bra in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Marked 8.38 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Moses Odjer, and the manager let it.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Defensive actions: 14, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Kevin Biondi unhappy with how he is being used
Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Kevin Biondi has let it be known that he does not like the way Livorno are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Dec 2026
A season average of 7.06 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Livorno know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Squad14 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Livorno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Marked 9.01 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match12 Dec 2026
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad7 Dec 2026
Gregorio Luperini 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.14, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nicola Falasco, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Filippo Tani and Livorno agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The terraces7 Dec 2026
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.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
5.78 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Federico Dionisi trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Livorno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages eat 317% of everything Livorno 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Emanuele Ribero
“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.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 17 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market23 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Gregorio Luperini 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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
A defender's afternoon for Nana Welbeck
Defensive actions: 22. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match21 Nov 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Federico Dionisi’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Livorno.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.39 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Defensive actions: 18. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad23 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Moses Odjer
“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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Emanuele Ribero trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
An average of 7.01 in a first team he is several years too young for. Livorno have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Match14 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Livorno's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Livorno has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad16 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Livorno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Jacopo Seghetti
“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.
Market16 Nov 2026
Nuno Patrício is 20, and Livorno 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match4 Nov 2026
Livorno out of the cup
Fiorentina ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Livorno may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match7 Nov 2026
4 matches without a win for Livorno
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Livorno are no longer polite ones.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Gregorio Luperini 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 22 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad9 Nov 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Jacopo Seghetti knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Marked 7.54 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Livorno had the best player on the pitch.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Donny van der Lijcke, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
A defender's afternoon for Nana Welbeck
Defensive actions: 36. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad2 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Livorno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 317% of everything Livorno 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
The award goes to Donny van der Lijcke, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.
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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Shots: 8, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Match31 Oct 2026
Point won or two lost for Livorno?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Vis Pesaro? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 10 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
Gregorio Luperini 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Sambenedettese left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nana Welbeck, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad19 Oct 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Squad19 Oct 2026
An average of 7.00 in a first team he is several years too young for. Livorno have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Match17 Oct 2026
Nobody wants to play Livorno right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Livorno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match17 Oct 2026
Pineto made Livorno work for it, but the scoreboard read 4‑3 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.75, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market12 Oct 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Livorno, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Gregorio Luperini 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Donny van der Lijcke’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Livorno.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Marked 8.95 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Marked 8.25 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Marked 8.23 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tim Väyrynen, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Defensive actions: 23, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad5 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Livorno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 548% of everything Livorno 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Livorno get the job done against Carpi
A 1‑0 win over Carpi, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Marked 8.34 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Emanuele Ribero
“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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Defensive actions: 17. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Livorno, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
Kevin Gadellaa decides it from twelve yards
2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match23 Sep 2026
Livorno through in the cup
A 0‑0 win over Novara, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match26 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Livorno
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Gregorio Luperini 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 22 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Match26 Sep 2026
Ravenna left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Salvatore Monaco, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match19 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Livorno
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Livorno are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Livorno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 17 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Match19 Sep 2026
Livorno and Forli cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Forli came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market14 Sep 2026
“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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Gregorio Luperini 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.11 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“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.
Match12 Sep 2026
It needed Donny van der Lijcke to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Pontedera, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Livorno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Wages eat 369% of everything Livorno 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Point won or two lost for Livorno?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Ternana? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
Gregorio Luperini 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market31 Aug 2026
Vis Pesaro pay $120.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“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.
Match29 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Livorno against Gubbio
0‑1 to Gubbio, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market31 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Davide Gentile has his answer from Livorno; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Shots: 9. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Squad31 Aug 2026
At 17 years old, Donny van der Lijcke became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 5.73, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Livorno, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Livorno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Jacopo Ruggiero is 16, and Livorno 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Roberto Romano is 16, and Livorno 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
He is 16, and nobody at Livorno signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Gregorio Luperini 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
He is 19, and nobody at Livorno signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Samuel Di Carmine keeps the shirt for now, at Livorno's convenience rather than his own.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Livorno say no — this time
The offer from Dolomiti Bellunesi for Riccardo Capparella was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Gregorio Luperini 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market10 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Jacopo Marinari has his answer from Livorno; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad10 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Kevin Gadellaa
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Livorno will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A new face in his position, and Jacopo Seghetti suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Livorno have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
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Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Michele Camporese and Livorno agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Livorno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.