Roberto Ogunseye

Striker - Giugliano
6 Feb 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Roberto Ogunseye

23 Edition

The Giugliano Herald

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Giugliano turn down Triestina for Ibourahima Baldé

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Player ratings

Luciano Peluso, 21, steals the show — 8.04

Marked 8.04 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

The dugout

Stefano Cester: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Giugliano have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Ivan Varone 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 Giugliano this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Ibourahima Baldé is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.24 with 14 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

A row about effort at Giugliano

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Giuliano Laezza was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

PAOK tell Giugliano: Anestis Mythou 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.

Match

Giugliano see off Siracusa

Three points for Giugliano, 2‑1 the final word against Siracusa in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Roberto Ogunseye was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.47. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

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19 Edition

The Giugliano Herald

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A fracture rules Murilo out for 31 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Giugliano will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

Giugliano tear Foggia apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Foggia, and it could have been more.

Squad

A day Ibourahima Baldé will not forget

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.

Squad

Jérémie Broh stays put

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

Squad

Ivan Varone 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 Giugliano this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Ibourahima Baldé

Marked 9.85 — 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 ratings

Ninety minutes of Roberto Ogunseye at his very best

Marked 8.38. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Giugliano.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Davide Longo, on a 4‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

The dugout

Roberto De Rosa does not fit this one

Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.

In brief

18 Edition

The Giugliano Herald

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Murilo out for 39 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Giugliano will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Giugliano board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Squad

A falling-out at Giugliano

Ivan Varone and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ibourahima Baldé

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

Player ratings

Roberto Ogunseye was the difference for Giugliano

Marked 7.91. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Match

Honours even between Giugliano and Trapani

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

The dugout

Jérémie Broh knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Jérémie Broh trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Davide Longo on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

Squad

Luigi D'Avino 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.

In brief

14 Edition

The Giugliano Herald

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

69 days out for Murilo after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Giugliano will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

No end in sight to Giugliano's wait for a win

11 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Giugliano has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

Chastening afternoon for Giugliano

A 1‑4 beating by Sorrento was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

The terraces

Anger at Giugliano spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Market

Ibourahima Baldé puts it in writing

“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 Giugliano, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Giugliano

Jérémie Broh 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Giugliano

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Giuliano Laezza was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Giugliano dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout

Davide Longo: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑4, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief

7 Edition

The Giugliano Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Stefano Greco

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.

Transfer targets

Ivan Timoshenko turns down Giugliano

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Krasnodar keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Words exchanged at Giugliano

Jérémie Broh and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match

Catania take the points off Giugliano

Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Words at Giugliano training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giuliano Laezza 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.

Market

One of our own: Dario Dalla Valle joins the Giugliano first team

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

Market

One of our own: Alberto Cecconi joins the Giugliano first team

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

Market

Carlo Landi steps up from the Giugliano academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Carlo Landi 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

Ruggero Greco steps up from the Giugliano academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ruggero Greco 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.

In brief

3 Edition

The Giugliano Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Ivan Varone 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 Giugliano this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Rafał Adamski

Giugliano asked and Legia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Lautaro Taboada is in the works

Giugliano have made the call to Leganés. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief