The Monopoli Gazette
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Clement Bischoff, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.71
A mark of 7.71 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match9 Jan 2027
Monopoli make home a hard place to visit
11 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Market11 Jan 2027
Daniel Theiner is a Monopoli player
The fee is $280.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Südtirol drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Monopoli
Clement Bischoff 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.
Boardroom11 Jan 2027
Tommaso Lupinetti will join Monopoli for nothing
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Tommaso Lupinetti has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Monopoli have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
The terraces11 Jan 2027
The crowd has taken to Clement Bischoff
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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
No hiding place for Stefano Piccinini
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Stefano Piccinini, and the manager let it.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Monopoli training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bruno Valenti 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.
Match9 Jan 2027
Clement Bischoff rescues a point for Monopoli
It needed Clement Bischoff to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Benevento, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
In brief
- Player ratings Emanuele Scipioni runs at them all day
- Squad Monopoli pick somebody else ahead of Antony Angileri
- Player ratings Stefano Piccinini spends the afternoon fouling