Marked for Ciro Loreto
From our football correspondent
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Match31 Oct 2026
It had gone 9 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Simone Cangianiello, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match27 Oct 2026
Federico Ricci scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Casarano, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
At 22 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.
The dugout2 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
Three points for Sorrento, 1‑0 the final word against Cavese in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages swallow 129% of the Sorrento income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Sorrento
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Daniele Solcia was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Market12 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Sorrento is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Federico Tonin
“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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.
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Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Sorrento
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages swallow 171% of the Sorrento income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ciro Loreto, and the manager let it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Matteo Milan makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Match3 Oct 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Altamura leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Valerio Grasso was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Sorrento dressing room was either.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The plan did not have a place for Claudio Santini
Nobody at Sorrento is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
Squad5 Oct 2026
At 32 he has taken a place rather than been given one, and somebody else has to find something to say about it. Sorrento have a decision that made itself.
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Uneasy
Market14 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Sorrento can pretend not to have heard.
Market14 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Sorrento is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Emanuele Romano 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ludovico Del Sorbo, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Sorrento
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ciro Loreto was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match12 Sep 2026
A goal on 85 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Nobody on the pitch touched Sean Parker
7.49, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Sorrento had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Match12 Sep 2026
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 dugout14 Sep 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
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Market7 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Sorrento can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Sorrento close the window on a squad of their own making
12 in and 9 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Everything agreed with Crvena Zvezda, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dynamo Kyiv have kept their man, and Sorrento go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Sorrento training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ciro Loreto 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Nicolò Evangelisti 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The captaincy has been taken off Ludovico Del Sorbo. Sorrento will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Stefano Paglino has moved up it.