Marked for Manuel Peretti
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Cavese
Alessio Luciani 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 ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Marc-Aurèle Caillard 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Sveinn Aron Guðjohnsen’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Cavese.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.70 on the card, and the Cavese support went home talking about one name.
Squad16 Nov 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.
Back issues
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Steady
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 47. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match31 Oct 2026
10 unbeaten for Cavese
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 10 matches without defeat is a foundation Cavese did not have in the autumn.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Cavese training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francesco Orlando 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Alessio Luciani
“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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 136% of everything Cavese earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Loan watch2 Nov 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 Cavese, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Marlon Ubani named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Marlon Ubani is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Squad2 Nov 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Casarano will be the happier side with the point.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match17 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Cavese do not lose
8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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 Cavese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
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Daniele Bolcano is a better footballer than he was
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Words at Cavese training over how hard people work
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The manager makes an example of Manuel Peretti
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Match
Point won or two lost for Cavese?
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Marc-Aurèle Caillard 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Davide Munari
“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.
Match5 Sep 2026
A 1‑0 win over Catania, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 6.91 on 11 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.83 on the card, and the Cavese support went home talking about one name.
Squad7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Hugo Constant 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Cavese spent the window trying to move Sveinn Aron Guðjohnsen on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ciro Loreto and Cavese agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 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 Cavese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Francesco Orlando 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Ciro Loreto
“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.
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
Alessandro Cardinali is 20, and Cavese have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.