Marked for Alfredo Bifulco
From our football correspondent
Steady
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The deal with Napoli is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Genoa have kept their man, and Campobasso go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Como have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
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Steady
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The deal with Fiorentina is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alfredo Bifulco commits to Campobasso for another 4 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Campobasso asked and Spezia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alfredo Bifulco, and the manager let it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Pierpaolo Esposito is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Silvio Bianco 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Elia Andreoli 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Giovanni Canali 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Campobasso know which stage they are at.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Gabriele Corbo and Campobasso agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Emmanuele Salines 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A muscle injury and 16 days out for Edoardo Lancini
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Campobasso will quote 16 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Market3 Aug 2026
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
7 new faces, and Campobasso are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Campobasso have made the call to Alcione Milano. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.