Marked for Daniel Boloca
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match28 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Empoli's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Empoli has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Empoli
Filippo Bandinelli 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Empoli
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Daniel Boloca was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad30 Nov 2026
100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
Match28 Nov 2026
Empoli rescue it on 86 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 86. Modena had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Match28 Nov 2026
Honours even between Empoli and Modena
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 dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Cesare Martinelli was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Empoli dressing room was either.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Empoli
Daniel Boloca and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Pietro Pellegri was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.57. 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Marco Curto 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Late, late show earns Empoli a point
Minute 95, against Padova, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Match21 Nov 2026
Empoli and Padova take a point apiece
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Aarón Barquett and Empoli agree another 4 years.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Filippo Bandinelli trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Cesare Martinelli chose the glass-half-full version of 2‑2; the supporters left with the other one.
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Crisis
Squad16 Nov 2026
Andrea Ghion 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 Empoli this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Filippo Bandinelli 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Stiven Shpendi, and the manager let it.
Match14 Nov 2026
A bad afternoon for Empoli against Reggiana
0‑1 to Reggiana, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Boardroom16 Nov 2026
Doors closed at Empoli
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Empoli told Daniel Boloca something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Cesare Martinelli to a room that had heard them before.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Empoli will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
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Steady
Match4 Nov 2026
Empoli march on in the cup
Trento are out and Empoli go through, 4‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Marked 8.77 at 18, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Empoli
Filippo Bandinelli 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Empoli
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Daniel Boloca was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Andrea Ghion 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.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Alessio Raballo has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match7 Nov 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
A promise honoured at Empoli
Something was said to Tommaso Barbieri and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
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Steady
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Darryl Bakola: 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.” Empoli have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Empoli
Tommaso Barbieri 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Daniel Boloca 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nicolas Haas, and the manager let it.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Parma to sit and watch. I want to come back to Empoli and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The captaincy has been taken off Daniel Boloca. Empoli will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Cesare Martinelli after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Juan Galeano
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Match31 Oct 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Palermo defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Upbeat
Match24 Oct 2026
Pietro Pellegri wins it after the whistle should have gone
96 minutes played. Pietro Pellegri found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Mantova went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.25, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Up for the corner, and Youssef Maleh delivers — 7.87
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Youssef Maleh scored, was marked 7.87, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Empoli
Daniel Boloca and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match24 Oct 2026
It finished 3‑2, and it was Pietro Pellegri’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Empoli.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Empoli
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Filippo Bandinelli was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market26 Oct 2026
No place for Marco Curto in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Marco Curto has his answer from Empoli; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Duccio Degli Innocenti, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad19 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 Empoli this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Daniel Boloca 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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A mark of 7.53, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jeremías Ruiz and Empoli agree another 2 years.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Cesare Martinelli chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Squad19 Oct 2026
No place for Jeremías Ruiz in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Empoli are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Empoli
Daniel Boloca 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Gabriele Indragoli is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrea Fulignati, and the manager let it.
Match10 Oct 2026
0‑2 to Carrarese, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Empoli
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Youssef Maleh was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
Doors closed at Empoli
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Empoli
18 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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Upbeat
Squad5 Oct 2026
There were 9 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A brace, and Pietro Pellegri takes the afternoon — 9.17
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Pietro Pellegri provided it, and the 9.17 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Empoli
Daniel Boloca 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Belts tighten at Empoli
The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.
Match3 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Pietro Pellegri. 3‑2 against Cesena, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Filippo Bandinelli 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Nicolas Haas is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Nicolas Haas has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Loan watch5 Oct 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Empoli, and 1 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
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Crisis
Squad7 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 13 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match5 Sep 2026
Nowhere to hide for Empoli
1‑4 against Sampdoria, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Pogon had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Empoli close the window on a squad of their own making
12 in and 4 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Empoli
Daniel Boloca 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Empoli counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Empoli now.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Empoli
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andrea Ghion was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“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.
Market7 Sep 2026
The Luca Magnino conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Como will make the call about Luca Magnino this week. Empoli have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
Empoli spend $6.9M to raise the standard
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $6.9M has been paid because Daniel Boloca is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
Market17 Aug 2026
Fiorentina did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $5.6M for Abdelhamid Sabiri, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Empoli say no — this time
The offer from Casertana for Iwo Kaczmarski was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Empoli
Filippo Bandinelli 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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Empoli spend $6.9M on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $6.9M for Daniel Boloca, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Andrea Ghion 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Empoli have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad17 Aug 2026
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Empoli are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
In brief
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Squad
14 new faces, and Empoli are still learning each other
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The dugout
Tommaso Lastoria knocks on the manager's door
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The dugout
The manager plants his flag on Luca Magnino
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Sassuolo have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market17 Aug 2026
Business is business: Daniel Boloca goes
Empoli paid $6.9M and Sassuolo took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move Róber Pier 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. Róber Pier is living that version at Sassuolo, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad17 Aug 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 Sassuolo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A loan move for Harold Preciado is in the works
Sassuolo have made the call to Porto. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Market17 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Steady
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Empoli and Sassuolo have settled on $6.9M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Market10 Aug 2026
Empoli spend $7.6M to raise the standard
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $7.6M has been paid because Tommaso Barbieri is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
Market10 Aug 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Bogdan Popov had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Empoli had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Atlanta United FC, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Stiven Shpendi and Empoli agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Empoli
Andrea Ghion and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market10 Aug 2026
Reggiana paid $580.0K and Empoli took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
Empoli spend $7.6M on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $7.6M for Tommaso Barbieri, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Empoli
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lorenzo Ignacchiti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Steady
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Napoli have kept their man, and Sassuolo go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The offer went to Gimnasia y Esgrima this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Market10 Aug 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Sassuolo have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Arijanet Murić and Sassuolo agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Sassuolo
Ignace Van Der Brempt 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Market10 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Sassuolo will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Sassuolo
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sonosi Daldum was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Steady
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
The offer went to Cremonese this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
$6.1M on the table at Sassuolo. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A move Edoardo Soleri 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. Edoardo Soleri is living that version at Empoli, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market3 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Empoli did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Filippo Bandinelli and Empoli agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Empoli
Andrea Ghion 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 row about effort at Empoli
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andrea Fulignati was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Empoli asked and Red Bull Salzburg said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Filippo Bandinelli’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
406 appearances across 16 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Sassuolo know exactly what they have.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nemanja Matić commits to Sassuolo for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Sassuolo
Nemanja Matić 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Sassuolo have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for André Silva is in the works
Sassuolo have made the call to Porto. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad3 Aug 2026
5 new faces, and Sassuolo 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.