Marked for Adrián Bernabé
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad27 Sep 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 17 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market27 Sep 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Parma, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 31 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Defensive actions: 27, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad27 Sep 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.30, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad27 Sep 2027
87 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Marked 8.93 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match25 Sep 2027
Parma get the job done against Monza
A 2‑0 win over Monza, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
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Steady
Squad20 Sep 2027
A one-man rearguard from Zion Suzuki
There were 14 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad20 Sep 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Parma may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match18 Sep 2027
The wait goes on for Parma
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Tempers go at Parma
Adrián Bernabé 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.
Squad20 Sep 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matija Frigan, and the manager let it.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.79, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Marked 8.21 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.09, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match18 Sep 2027
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Steady
Market13 Sep 2027
Cesena come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Parma did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Defensive actions: 27, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad13 Sep 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad13 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Kaio Eduardo
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.63 on the card, and the Parma support went home talking about one name.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Shots: 9, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Match11 Sep 2027
Point won or two lost for Parma?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Venezia? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Market13 Sep 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Parma know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Parma
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market30 Aug 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Parma, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market30 Aug 2027
Empoli pay $2.3M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad30 Aug 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Adrián Bernabé and Parma agree another 4 years.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Parma
Zion Suzuki 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.
Market30 Aug 2027
Pergolettese paid $340.0K and Parma took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad30 Aug 2027
119 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad30 Aug 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Parma are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.24, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Crisis
Market16 Aug 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Parma, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad16 Aug 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Parma may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Parma
Zion Suzuki 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Oliver Sørensen
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Adrián Bernabé knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Adrián Bernabé trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market16 Aug 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Parma know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Crisis
Market9 Aug 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Parma have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Zion Suzuki 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 Parma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Aug 2027
31 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lautaro Valenti, and the manager let it.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Adrián Bernabé knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Parma, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market9 Aug 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Crisis
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Parma
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Cesare Ferri has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Parma
Zion Suzuki 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.
Market2 Aug 2027
Luca Gozza has left for Altamura in a $65.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Loan watch2 Aug 2027
“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 Parma, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“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.
Market2 Aug 2027
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market2 Aug 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Enrico Delprato’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
Parma pull $1.8M back off the table
The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
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Uneasy
Market26 Jul 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Tempers go at Parma
Adrián Bernabé 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.
Market26 Jul 2027
Zion Suzuki linked with a move away
The name of Zion Suzuki keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Parma say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Market21 Jun 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Parma can pretend not to have heard.
Squad21 Jun 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market21 Jun 2027
The name of Matija Frigan has come up in conversations Parma were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market21 Jun 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Tempers go at Parma
Zion Suzuki 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 Jun 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mariano Troilo, and the manager let it.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Adrián Bernabé knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Parma, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market21 Jun 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Parma will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Loan watch21 Jun 2027
35 appearances at Mantova and the goals keep coming. Parma are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Uneasy
Market14 Jun 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Parma can pretend not to have heard.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Zion Suzuki 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 Parma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom14 Jun 2027
Parma still without a manager
13 days since the seat came open, a list of names doing the rounds, and nobody has signed anything. Every week this drags on the shortlist gets shorter.
Market14 Jun 2027
The name of Lukas Rosengren has come up in conversations Parma were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Adrián Bernabé knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Adrián Bernabé trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market14 Jun 2027
The Afonso Semedo conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Benevento will make the call about Afonso Semedo this week. Parma have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Market14 Jun 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Pontus Almqvist’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad14 Jun 2027
International call for Zion Suzuki
Zion Suzuki joins up with his country. Parma lose him for the window and would like him back in one piece.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Alessandro Circati joins up with his country. Parma lose him for the window and would like him back in one piece.
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Uneasy
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
The statement thanked him for his efforts and wished him well, in that order and in about that many words. The search begins immediately.
Market7 Jun 2027
Parma say no — this time
The offer from Hajduk Split for Matija Frigan was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market7 Jun 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Parma, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
“Somebody picks the team on Saturday. This week it is me, and that is as far as I have thought.” No promises were made in either direction, which is how these usually begin.
Market7 Jun 2027
The fee is $4.0M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Avellino drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad7 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market7 Jun 2027
Emanuele Valeri wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Parma hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad7 Jun 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oliver Sørensen, and the manager let it.
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
Parma pull $1.8M back off the table
The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
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Crisis
Squad10 May 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad10 May 2027
Tempers go at Parma
Zion Suzuki 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.
Match8 May 2027
Three points for Parma, 4‑3 the final word against Fiorentina in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings10 May 2027
A performance of 8.55 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings10 May 2027
A performance of 8.09 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad10 May 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad10 May 2027
A season average of 7.28 with 6 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Shots: 6. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
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Uneasy
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match24 Apr 2027
No end in sight to Parma's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Parma has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad26 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
A performance of 8.86 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad26 Apr 2027
7 goals and a season average of 7.22. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad26 Apr 2027
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Zion Suzuki knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Squad26 Apr 2027
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Parma pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Match24 Apr 2027
Honours even between Parma and Lazio
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The terraces26 Apr 2027
Everybody has an opinion about Zion Suzuki
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
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Crisis
Squad19 Apr 2027
A one-man rearguard from Zion Suzuki
There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match17 Apr 2027
Parma taken apart
0‑3 to Napoli, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Match17 Apr 2027
No end in sight to Parma's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Parma has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad19 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad19 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Zion Suzuki, and the manager let it.
Boardroom19 Apr 2027
Doors closed at Parma
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Adrián Bernabé knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Adrián Bernabé trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Shots: 7, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Apr 2027
Lautaro Valenti: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Parma have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match10 Apr 2027
Still nobody has beaten Parma
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Zion Suzuki 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 Parma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Apr 2027
6 goals and a season average of 7.26. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad12 Apr 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match10 Apr 2027
Parma share the spoils with Torino
A 1‑1 draw with Torino leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Market12 Apr 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Parma will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Market12 Apr 2027
The name of Pontus Almqvist keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Parma say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Market5 Apr 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
The scrutiny sharpens at Parma
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Parma is running low.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match3 Apr 2027
8 unbeaten for Parma
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Parma did not have in the autumn.
Squad5 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Apr 2027
“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.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Marked 8.45 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match3 Apr 2027
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Market5 Apr 2027
The Zion Suzuki story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Zion Suzuki signs something — a contract at Parma or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Uneasy
Squad29 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Parma
Adrián Bernabé 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.
Match27 Mar 2027
Still nobody has beaten Parma
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad29 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Mandela Keita
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad29 Mar 2027
7 goals and a season average of 7.22. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad29 Mar 2027
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Edoardo Corvi knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Match27 Mar 2027
A 1‑1 draw with Sassuolo leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Market29 Mar 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Enrico Delprato signs something — a contract at Parma or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Shots: 5, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
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Upbeat
Squad22 Mar 2027
There were 15 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Boardroom22 Mar 2027
Parma interviewed the field and appointed the corridor: Ciro Caprioli keeps the job he had been doing in all but title. Sometimes the safest pair of hands is the one already holding the wheel.
Market22 Mar 2027
Parma say no — this time
The offer from Helsingborg for Giovanni Daffara was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad22 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match20 Mar 2027
Whatever happens, Parma do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Match20 Mar 2027
It finished 2‑1, and it was Nesta Elphege’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Parma.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Marked 8.95 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad22 Mar 2027
“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.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Squad15 Mar 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom15 Mar 2027
Still nobody in the Parma dugout
42 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Parma
Adrián Bernabé 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.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.13, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad15 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matija Frigan, and the manager let it.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.38, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Adrián Bernabé
6 goals and a season average of 7.25 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Match13 Mar 2027
It needed Adrián Bernabé to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Cagliari, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Upbeat
Market8 Mar 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Parma can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 33 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Defensive actions: 32. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Defensive actions: 31. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 29 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Parma may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad8 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match6 Mar 2027
It finished 2‑0, and it was Matija Frigan’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Parma.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Gaetano Oristanio
6 goals and a season average of 7.20 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
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Uneasy
Market1 Mar 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Parma can pretend not to have heard.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Zion Suzuki and Parma agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Parma
Adrián Bernabé 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Zion Suzuki
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad1 Mar 2027
14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Marked 8.52 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Ten men and a goalkeeper behind him, and it still finished in the net. He knew before anybody told him, and nobody at Parma needed to.
Match27 Feb 2027
Honours even between Parma and Genoa
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Steady
Match22 Feb 2027
Parma are in real trouble now
Position 18, 21 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A one-man rearguard from Zion Suzuki
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad22 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.73, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Marked 8.18 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Marked 8.05 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match20 Feb 2027
It needed Adrián Bernabé to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Juventus, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad22 Feb 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A season average of 7.21 with 5 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
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Steady
Market15 Feb 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Parma can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Defensive actions: 24. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Parma
Adrián Bernabé 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.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Defensive actions: 23, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Defensive actions: 22, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Boardroom15 Feb 2027
Still nobody in the Parma dugout
14 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Marked 8.97 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match13 Feb 2027
Lecce made Parma work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad15 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Mandela Keita
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Crisis
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
The statement thanked him for his efforts and wished him well, in that order and in about that many words. The search begins immediately.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market8 Feb 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Parma, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
“Somebody has to pick the team on Saturday, and this week that is me.” An interim appointment with no promises attached, which is how most of them start.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Matija Frigan and Parma agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match6 Feb 2027
Adrián Bernabé scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to AC Milan, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matija Frigan, and the manager let it.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.73, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Uneasy
Market1 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Parma
Adrián Bernabé 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
Emanuele Valeri wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Parma hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
A performance of 9.27 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match30 Jan 2027
Parma get the job done against Udinese
A 2‑1 win over Udinese, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Marked 8.77 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Adrián Bernabé knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Parma, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Crisis
Match23 Jan 2027
The wait goes on for Parma
15 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market25 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Parma can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Defensive actions: 26. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Market25 Jan 2027
The name of Matija Frigan has come up in conversations Parma were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad25 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alessandro Circati commits to Parma for another 5 years.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Marked 7.53 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Parma had the best player on the pitch.
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Crisis
Match16 Jan 2027
14 matches without a win for Parma
The run now stands at 14, and the questions being asked around Parma are no longer polite ones.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A one-man rearguard from Zion Suzuki
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market18 Jan 2027
Inter paid $16.4M and Parma took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Market18 Jan 2027
Christian Ordoñez has left for Fiorentina in a $5.8M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Market18 Jan 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market18 Jan 2027
Parma say no — this time
The offer from Sheffield for Nesta Elphege was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Parma
Adrián Bernabé 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.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Match9 Jan 2027
13 matches without a win for Parma
The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Parma are no longer polite ones.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market11 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Parma can pretend not to have heard.
Market11 Jan 2027
AC Milan come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Parma did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Parma may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad11 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch11 Jan 2027
“I watch every Parma game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Pacos de Ferreira runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.87, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Match2 Jan 2027
12 matches without a win for Parma
The run now stands at 12, and the questions being asked around Parma are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
The scrutiny sharpens at Parma
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Parma is running low.
Match4 Jan 2027
Every point is an argument now for Parma
Position 20 and 11 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Cristiano Pagani has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Market4 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Parma can pretend not to have heard.
Market4 Jan 2027
Parma say no — this time
The offer from Inter for Mateo Pellegrino was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Match26 Dec 2026
11 matches without a win for Parma
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Parma are no longer polite ones.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Parma may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market28 Dec 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad28 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match26 Dec 2026
1‑3 to Fiorentina, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Match19 Dec 2026
No end in sight to Parma's wait for a win
10 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Parma has to find a result from somewhere.
Match19 Dec 2026
Chastening afternoon for Parma
A 1‑5 beating by Inter was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Market21 Dec 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A one-man rearguard from Zion Suzuki
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Parma may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Parma
Enrico Delprato 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 Dec 2026
32 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Marked 8.51 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Boardroom21 Dec 2026
Nobody left the Parma dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
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Crisis
Match12 Dec 2026
9 matches without a win for Parma
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Parma are no longer polite ones.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A one-man rearguard from Zion Suzuki
There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match12 Dec 2026
Parma taken apart
0‑3 to Lazio, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Market14 Dec 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Parma, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Parma
Emanuele Valeri 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Zion Suzuki 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.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom14 Dec 2026
Doors closed at Parma
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
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Crisis
Market7 Dec 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Parma can pretend not to have heard.
Match5 Dec 2026
No end in sight to Parma's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Parma has to find a result from somewhere.
Match7 Dec 2026
Parma are in real trouble now
Position 18, 11 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
The scrutiny sharpens at Parma
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Parma is running low.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Edoardo Corvi: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Parma have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad7 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market7 Dec 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Parma heard it as anything else.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match5 Dec 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Crisis
Match28 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Parma's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Parma has to find a result from somewhere.
Market30 Nov 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad30 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match28 Nov 2026
Gaetano Oristanio scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Torino, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages eat 142% of everything Parma earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Marked 8.68 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad30 Nov 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Zion Suzuki knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Ten men and a goalkeeper behind him, and it still finished in the net. He knew before anybody told him, and nobody at Parma needed to.
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Crisis
Match21 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for Parma
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market23 Nov 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Parma
Adrián Bernabé 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Enrico Delprato, and the manager let it.
Match21 Nov 2026
0‑1 to Hellas Verona, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad23 Nov 2026
23 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Shots: 11, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Matija Frigan knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Parma, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match14 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Parma's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Parma has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad16 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Edoardo Corvi knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
“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 Parma, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Match14 Nov 2026
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
A mark of 4.72 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
Squad16 Nov 2026
One booking too many, and Hans Nicolussi Caviglia sits out. Parma lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.
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Steady
Match4 Nov 2026
Parma bow out of the cup
Ternana go through and Parma go home, 1‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market9 Nov 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad9 Nov 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market9 Nov 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Parma heard it as anything else.
Match7 Nov 2026
4 matches without a win for Parma
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Parma are no longer polite ones.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Parma
Adrián Bernabé 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.34 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Steady
Market26 Oct 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Parma
Enrico Delprato 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Enrico Delprato, and the manager let it.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Marked 8.51 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match24 Oct 2026
A 2‑2 draw with Cremonese leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
The spotlight tightens on Zion Suzuki
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Market26 Oct 2026
The name of Pontus Almqvist keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Parma say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Every debut is a small story about the future: Luca Scarlato, 17 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Parma
Mateo Pellegrino 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Genoa made Parma work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.27, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.41, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.37, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Marked 8.34 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Loan watch19 Oct 2026
“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 Parma, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Jacob Ondrejka knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Jacob Ondrejka trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Market12 Oct 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Parma, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match10 Oct 2026
It finished 3‑1, and it was Mateo Pellegrino’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Parma.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.93, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lautaro Valenti, and the manager let it.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Jacob Ondrejka 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Marked 5.72, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
In brief
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Boardroom
The Parma dressing room answers
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The terraces
The press have found their man in Pontus Almqvist
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Parma
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market5 Oct 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Parma
Mateo Pellegrino 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match3 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Parma against Lecce
1‑3 to Lecce, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
209% of the income goes out in wages at Parma
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.36 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Parma’s own kid cannot get a game
At 26, Enrico Delprato has come through every age group this club has, and now watches a borrowed player of much the same level start every week. An academy notices these things, and so do the parents in the stand.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match19 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Parma
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Parma are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Parma
Mateo Pellegrino 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match19 Sep 2026
Parma and Udinese take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A mark of 4.45 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Mandela Keita knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Mandela Keita trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 39. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 37, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 30. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Match12 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Parma
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Parma are no longer polite ones.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Parma
Enrico Delprato 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 22, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Carlos Eduardo, and the manager let it.
Match12 Sep 2026
Parma and Pisa cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Pisa came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Market14 Sep 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Alessandro Circati’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Adrián Bernabé scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to AS Roma, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Wages eat 190% of everything Parma earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.78 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad7 Sep 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Zion Suzuki knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Market7 Sep 2026
St. Pauli are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Parma will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad24 Aug 2026
A one-man rearguard from Zion Suzuki
There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Parma can pretend not to have heard.
Market24 Aug 2026
The fee is $850.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Potenza drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Market24 Aug 2026
Maritimo come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Parma did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Parma
Mateo Pellegrino 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Como take the points off Parma
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Emanuele Valeri
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market24 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Parma will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Lazio moved on, Alessandro Circati reports back to Parma, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Market17 Aug 2026
Sascha Britschgi has left for Fiorentina in a $4.6M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Parma
Enrico Delprato 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Leonardo Mendicino is 20, and Parma have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of Giovanni Daffara has come up in conversations Parma were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Adrián Bernabé knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Parma, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Enrico Delprato commits to Parma for another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Market3 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Abdoulaye Ndiaye has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Parma.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Zion Suzuki knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Parma, and both men came out saying it was fine.