The Renate Post
Squad21 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Gianluca Esposito
15 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Renate lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Renate
Tommaso Nobile 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Mateo Tanlongo 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
3 matches without a goal for Renate
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
Federico Bassani has seen enough of Sorrento
“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 Renate, and 0 appearances in 6 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Samuele Spalluto 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.
In brief
- Player ratings Michele Calì runs at them all day
- Match Point won or two lost for Renate?
- Market The shop window has Paolo Gardoni in it
- Player ratings The referee tires of Mateo Tanlongo