The Lazio Chronicle
Market31 Aug 2026
Lazio get their man
The chase for Odilon Kossounou ended with $31.4M changing hands and Atalanta out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Market31 Aug 2026
Lazio sign Ivan Smolčić for $11.8M
The paperwork is done: Ivan Smolčić joins from Como in a deal worth $11.8M. Now comes the harder part.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Cagliari tell Lazio: Yerry Mina 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A move Odilon Kossounou 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. Odilon Kossounou is living that version at Lazio, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market31 Aug 2026
Lazio turn down Sassuolo for Reda Belahyane
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Andrea Pinamonti
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market31 Aug 2026
Cristo is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Lazio is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Lazio
Mattia Zaccagni 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.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
Lazio spend $31.4M on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $31.4M for Odilon Kossounou, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
In brief
- Squad A muscle injury and 14 days out for Flavio Milillo
- Squad Andrea Pinamonti reaches 200 appearances
- The dugout Lazio pick somebody else ahead of Danilo Cataldi