Samuel Giovane

Defensive Midfielder - Catanzaro
30 Aug 2026
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Process

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The Catanzaro Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

The terraces

A $2.1M sale, and a town that did not want it

Tommaso Cassandro has gone, the accounts have $2.1M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.

Market

Business is business: Tommaso Cassandro goes

Empoli paid $2.1M and Catanzaro took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

Tempers go at Catanzaro

Mirko Pigliacelli 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.

Transfer targets

No deal for Ivan Saio at that price

Catanzaro offered $240.0K; Pescara said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Market

Catanzaro buy the years ahead of Ivan Sulev

He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Squad

Samuel Giovane 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.

In brief