Luca Ranieri

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Marked for Luca Ranieri

21 Edition

The Fiorentina Chronicle

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match19 Dec 2026

Nobody wants to play Fiorentina right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad21 Dec 2026

Tempers go at Fiorentina

Rolando Mandragora 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.

Match19 Dec 2026

Moise Kean the difference as Fiorentina beat Udinese

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Moise Kean. 1‑0 against Udinese, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings21 Dec 2026

Moise Kean was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.05. 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.

Squad21 Dec 2026

Rolando Mandragora is still paying for one afternoon at Fiorentina

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Loan watch21 Dec 2026

Bassidy Sanogo has seen enough of Ospitaletto

“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 Fiorentina, and 5 appearances in 15 say he has earned the hearing.

Player ratings21 Dec 2026

Nobody could get near Albert Guðmundsson

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The terraces21 Dec 2026

Everybody has an opinion about Rolando Mandragora

He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.

Boardroom21 Dec 2026

$40.0K lands at Fiorentina thanks to Riccardo Braschi

A clause somebody insisted on years ago, in a negotiation nobody remembers, has just paid Fiorentina $40.0K. Riccardo Braschi left a long time ago; the paperwork stayed.

In brief

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The Fiorentina Chronicle

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match9 Dec 2026

Marin Pongračić sends Fiorentina through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Marin Pongračić obliged against Ternana. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Fiorentina.

Match12 Dec 2026

Roberto Piccoli settles it late for Fiorentina

The 89th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Roberto Piccoli decided nobody was going anywhere. Pisa had no time left to answer.

Player ratings14 Dec 2026

Cher Ndour runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings14 Dec 2026

Marin Pongračić goes up and wins it — 7.49

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.49 for the rest of it.

Squad14 Dec 2026

David De Gea 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 Fiorentina this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces14 Dec 2026

The crowd has taken to Riyad Idrissi

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match12 Dec 2026

Fiorentina find a way past Pisa

Pisa made Fiorentina work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings14 Dec 2026

Luca Ranieri was immovable

16 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Player ratings14 Dec 2026

Roberto Piccoli takes the honours

Marked 7.62 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Fiorentina had the best player on the pitch.

In brief

8 Edition

The Fiorentina Chronicle

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Cher Ndour runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 40. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Fiorentina

Moise Kean 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.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Nothing got past Luca Ranieri

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 17 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Marco Brescianini dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Words at Fiorentina training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Majkol Luka 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.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Marco Brescianini asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief