Marked for Ibrahima Mbaye
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Uneasy
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 47. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Alessio Curcio out for 53 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Altamura will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match24 Oct 2026
5 matches without a win for Altamura
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Altamura are no longer polite ones.
Match24 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Altamura
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Altamura can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad26 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 Altamura this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Altamura training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Enrico Silletti 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.
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Crisis
Squad19 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Alessio Curcio out for 60 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Altamura will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match17 Oct 2026
4 matches without a win for Altamura
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Altamura are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Nicola Dipinto 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Altamura
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Altamura can tell you which week it ends in.
Match17 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tobia Mogentale 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.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Alessio Curcio out for 67 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Altamura will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Antonino Viola is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad12 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 Altamura this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Alessio Curcio out for 113 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Altamura will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match29 Aug 2026
0‑4 to Cosenza, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Zane Albarus and Altamura agree another 5 years.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Luís Carlos 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 Altamura this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Altamura training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Enrico Silletti 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.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Market31 Aug 2026
Zane Albarus is 20, and Altamura 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 ratings31 Aug 2026
4.36 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.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ibrahima Mbaye commits to Altamura for another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Marco Rosafio 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Ibrahima Mbaye has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Altamura.