Elseid Hysaj

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19 Sep 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Elseid Hysaj

7 Edition

The Lazio Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Edoardo Motta is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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.

Squad

Words at Lazio training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolò Rovella 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Lazio

Fernando 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.

Match

Lazio get the job done against Atalanta

A 2‑1 win over Atalanta, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Fisayo Dele-Bashiru

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Mattia Zaccagni linked with a move away

The name of Mattia Zaccagni keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Lazio say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

  • Squad Fernando knocks on the manager’s door
  • Market The window shut and Elseid Hysaj is still in the building
  • Player ratings Danilo Cataldi spends the afternoon fouling
Back issues
4 Edition

The Lazio Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Elseid Hysaj 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 Lazio can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Nicolò Rovella 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 Lazio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

4 academy players handed senior numbers at Lazio

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Player ratings

Gustav Isaksen runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Lazio come up short against Genoa

Genoa left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Edoardo Motta 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.

Market

Lazio promote Adriano Valentini from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Adriano Valentini has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Arturo Palmieri steps up from the Lazio academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Arturo Palmieri has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

One of our own: Gregorio Bruni joins the Lazio first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gregorio Bruni is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief

  • Squad Alfonso Pedraza falls out with a teammate over standards
  • Squad Fernando dropped after a run of poor form
  • Boardroom No investment in the facilities at Lazio
3 Edition

The Lazio Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Josh Sargent arrives at Lazio in a $13.9M statement of intent

There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Lazio have paid $13.9M for Josh Sargent, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.

Squad

A move Josh Sargent would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Josh Sargent is living that version at Lazio, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Mattia Zaccagni 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 Lazio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

$13.9M for Josh Sargent, and Lazio supporters approve

Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Josh Sargent from Toronto FC for $13.9M, and a ticket office having a very good morning.

Squad

Nicolò Rovella 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.

Squad

Words at Lazio training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fernando 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.

In brief

1 Edition

The Lazio Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

10 seasons of Patric

259 appearances across 10 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Lazio know what they have.

Market

Nicolò Rovella wants more than Lazio are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad

Alessio Romagnoli stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Alessio Romagnoli and Lazio agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Lazio

Mattia Zaccagni 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.

Market

Pontedera watching Cristo

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

Market

Nobody at Lazio has picked up the phone to Alessio Romagnoli

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

In brief