Marked for Brian Babit
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Feb 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Giuseppe Fella
41 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Cavese lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
Noah Fernandez, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.97
A mark of 7.97 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Paolo Doneda 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 Cavese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Alessio Luciani 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.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Feb 2028
The manager makes an example of Brian Babit
“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.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match27 Dec 2027
Cavese up to position 2
30 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad27 Dec 2027
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Paolo Doneda 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 Cavese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings27 Dec 2027
A performance of 9.69 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match25 Dec 2027
Siracusa made Cavese work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Alessio Luciani 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.
Loan watch27 Dec 2027
“I watch every Cavese game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Bra runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings27 Dec 2027
The cruellest goal, and it is Elia Visconti's
A touch he did not want, a bounce he could not have read, and his name in the wrong column. There is no consoling a man after one of these, and Cavese will not try tonight.
Squad27 Dec 2027
The manager makes an example of Brian Babit
“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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match30 Oct 2027
19 unbeaten for Cavese
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 19 matches without defeat is a foundation Cavese did not have in the autumn.
Match30 Oct 2027
Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 89th, and Casarano spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.
Squad1 Nov 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Cavese may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match30 Oct 2027
The run at home goes on for Cavese
11 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Squad1 Nov 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 Cavese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces1 Nov 2027
At 20 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.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
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.
Match30 Oct 2027
Casarano made Cavese work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Loan watch1 Nov 2027
“I watch every Cavese game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Bra runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad14 Jun 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Elia Visconti
45 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Cavese lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market14 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 Cavese, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad14 Jun 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Cavese may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad14 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 Cavese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Jun 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.
Market14 Jun 2027
Gerardo Fusco is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Cavese has been clear about where Gerardo Fusco stands, which is more than many ever get.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad29 Mar 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Elia Visconti
125 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Cavese lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.65 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Giuseppe Fella, 33, rolls back the years — 7.92
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.92 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Match27 Mar 2027
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Cavese and Casertana, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Words at Cavese training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brian Babit 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Brian Babit
“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.
Match27 Mar 2027
It finished 3‑3, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Alex Sposito lets one through his hands
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Loan watch29 Mar 2027
“I watch every Cavese game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Baranovichi runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market22 Mar 2027
Máximo Seggio hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Cavese can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
No sign of nerves from Francesco Bellone at 18 — 7.64
The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Francesco Bellone did not need any: 7.64, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad22 Mar 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Cavese may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad22 Mar 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; Cavese are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Brian Babit 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.
Match20 Mar 2027
It finished 2‑1, and it was Sveinn Aron Guðjohnsen’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Cavese.
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 Cavese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces22 Mar 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Francesco Bellone has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match6 Mar 2027
The wait goes on for Cavese
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.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
7.55, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Squad8 Mar 2027
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 19 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Market8 Mar 2027
Mattia Macchi has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Cavese they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Giuseppe Fella commits to Cavese for another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Brian Babit 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Cavese
André Moreira 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 ratings8 Mar 2027
Marked 8.01 — 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.
Match6 Mar 2027
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market1 Mar 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 Cavese, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match27 Feb 2027
The wait goes on for Cavese
5 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Alessio Luciani 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Cavese know it.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Emile Samyn 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 Cavese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
7.71, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Squad15 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 Cavese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words at Cavese training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brian Babit 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Brian Babit, and the manager let it.
Player ratings15 Feb 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market1 Feb 2027
Brian Babit hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Cavese can pretend not to have heard.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Simon Dia keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Cavese may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market1 Feb 2027
Cavese say no — this time
The offer from Como for Sveinn Aron Guðjohnsen 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Alessio Luciani 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Cavese
Riccardo Capparella 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 Feb 2027
9 clean sheets and counting. Strikers leave this ground muttering his name, which is exactly how a goalkeeper measures a good season.
Loan watch1 Feb 2027
“I did not go to Baranovichi to sit and watch. I want to come back to Cavese and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 22 matches say the rest.
Match30 Jan 2027
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Salernitana will be the happier side with the point.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Shots: 9, 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
Match25 Jan 2027
Cavese refuse to drop out of the race
Position 1, 37 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Market25 Jan 2027
Cavese say no — this time
The offer from Padova for Giuseppe Fella 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Cavese may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Brian Babit, 34, rolls back the years — 8.39
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.39 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market25 Jan 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 Cavese, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Cavese
Alessio Luciani 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Brian Babit 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.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Add another name to the list: Alcione Milano have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Giuseppe Fornito. The answer from Cavese has not changed — yet.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad11 Jan 2027
Pasquale De Mela damages knee ligaments — 21 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 21 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad11 Jan 2027
The match ball belongs to Sveinn Aron Guðjohnsen, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Market11 Jan 2027
Only the photograph left for Mattia Macchi
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mattia Macchi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Cavese the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match9 Jan 2027
Nobody wants to play Cavese right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Boardroom11 Jan 2027
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Mattia Macchi has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Cavese
Alessio Luciani 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.
Match9 Jan 2027
6 goals in one match, Sveinn Aron Guðjohnsen on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Cavese and Latina.
Match9 Jan 2027
Three points for Cavese, 4‑2 the final word against Latina in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
A performance of 9.18 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Pasquale De Mela
43 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Cavese lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Alessio Luciani 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.
The terraces21 Dec 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Nicolò Evangelisti has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings21 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.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.17, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Cavese
Riccardo Capparella 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Dec 2026
Pasquale De Mela damages knee ligaments — 51 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 51 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Brian Babit 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Pasquale De Mela
59 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Cavese lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market7 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 Cavese, and it is not being withdrawn.
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 Cavese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Pasquale De Mela
66 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Cavese lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A one-man rearguard from Alex Sposito
There were 7 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.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Giuseppe Fella, 33, rolls back the years — 7.93
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.93 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Brian Babit 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 Cavese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Cavese training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alessio Luciani 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
Three points for Cavese, 2‑0 the final word against Foggia in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Marked 8.46 — 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
123% of the income goes out in wages at Cavese
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.
Loan watch30 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 Cavese, and 0 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Pasquale De Mela
73 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Cavese lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Giuseppe Fella, 33, rolls back the years — 7.80
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.80 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Match21 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for Cavese
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.
Squad23 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 Cavese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Cavese know it.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Cavese training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brian Babit 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Giuseppe Fella, 33, rolls back the years — 8.25
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.25 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Brian Babit 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 Cavese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Cavese training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alessio Luciani 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 158% of everything Cavese 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Manuel Peretti. 2‑0 against Altamura, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Manuel Peretti was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.22. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Marked 8.16 — 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Marlon Ubani 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.
Loan watch5 Oct 2026
“I watch every Cavese game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Baranovichi runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market21 Sep 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 Sep 2026
Máximo Seggio gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Máximo Seggio has just signed for Cavese, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Cavese
Alessio Luciani 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 Sep 2026
Brian Babit 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Brian Babit, and the manager let it.
Match19 Sep 2026
A 1‑0 win over Salernitana, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
From our football correspondent
Steady
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 Cavese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Ciro Loreto
“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.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Market31 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 Cavese can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 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 Cavese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Cavese training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brian Babit 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Latina made Cavese work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings31 Aug 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Elia Visconti
25 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Cavese lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad17 Aug 2026
André Moreira gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. André Moreira has just signed for Cavese, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Cavese
Brian Babit 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
He is 20, and nobody at Cavese signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad17 Aug 2026
5 new faces, and Cavese are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Market17 Aug 2026
“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.