Simone Panada

Defensive Midfielder - Venezia
18 Feb 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Simone Panada

15 Edition

The Venezia Chronicle

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The cup run ends for Venezia

0‑1 against Parma, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Match

Cruel end for Cesena as Venezia pounce

There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Venezia scored in the 96th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.

Player ratings

Both of them Akor Adams's — 9.08

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.08, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Thierry Rendall Correia wants more than Venezia are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad

Juan Jesus 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 Venezia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Antoine Hainaut beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

Akor Adams sends Venezia past Cesena

It finished 2‑1, and it was Akor Adams’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Venezia.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Cesare D'Amico, on a 2‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

The dugout

Thierry Rendall Correia 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

Back issues
13 Edition

The Venezia Chronicle

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

5 matches without a win for Venezia

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Venezia are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Words at Venezia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thierry Rendall Correia 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.

Match

Monza take the points off Venezia

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

A falling-out at Venezia

Armel Bella-Kotchap and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Cesare D'Amico answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

No hiding place for Marin Šverko

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marin Šverko, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Antoine Hainaut

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

Squad

Bookings catch up with Juan Jesus

One yellow too many, and a match watched from the stand. The most avoidable absence in football, and Venezia will feel it on Saturday.

Player ratings

Akor Adams could have had three

8 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.

In brief

6 Edition

The Venezia Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Chastening afternoon for Venezia

A 0‑3 beating by Catanzaro was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Market

Not going: Simone Panada stays at Venezia

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Cesena had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 10 signed and 10 gone

That is the business done at Venezia until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Squad

Words at Venezia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thierry Rendall Correia 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Venezia

Albion Rrahmani and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout

John Yeboah 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.

Boardroom

Doors closed at Venezia

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑3 Cesare D'Amico left the room before anybody could ask which.

Squad

Lorenzo Montipò wants out of the spotlight

The ambition story running the other way, and the one nobody tells: a footballer asking for a smaller stage, fewer cameras and a crowd that does not turn. It is not weakness and it is very rarely reported as anything else.

In brief