The Benevento Herald
Squad31 Aug 2026
The knee: Danilo Russo out for 110 days
110 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Benevento lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Riccardo Capparella due for a Benevento medical
Everything agreed with Livorno, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Market31 Aug 2026
Matteo Del Gaudio 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 Benevento can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Matteo Del Gaudio is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Leonardo Sernicola 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 Benevento this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Benevento rebuffed over Jay Robinson
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Southampton have kept their man, and Benevento go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match29 Aug 2026
Benevento come up short against Monopoli
Monopoli left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad31 Aug 2026
200 appearances for Leonardo Sernicola
200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
The dugout31 Aug 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 Achille Serafini to a room that had heard them before.
In brief
- Player ratings Raffaele Celia beats them one at a time
- The dugout No place in the plan for Guglielmo Mignani
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Simone Verdi