The Cosenza Herald
Market10 Aug 2026
Ternana come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Cosenza did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Cosenza
Mario Perlingieri 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Francesco Dalla Costa steps up from the Cosenza academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Francesco Dalla Costa has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Cosenza promote Mauro Gamberini from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mauro Gamberini has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Achille Pellegrini joins the Cosenza first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Achille Pellegrini is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Jacopo Sala has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Cosenza know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Răzvan Paşcalău signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Răzvan Paşcalău and Cosenza agree another 4 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Cosenza try to borrow Mark Engel
Ajax have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Cosenza training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Răzvan Paşcalău 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.
In brief
- The dugout Răzvan Paşcalău knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout Alessandro Dalmazzi keeps his manager's vote