The Spezia Gazette
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Too dear: Spezia walk away from Tommy Conway
$18.5M was the most the club would pay and Middlesbrough were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Market17 Aug 2026
Spezia sign Gabriel Lunetta for $690.0K
The paperwork is done: Gabriel Lunetta joins from Catania in a deal worth $690.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Spezia go back to the board over Filippo Nardi
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $322.6K — a club that wants Filippo Nardi enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
An offer of $300.0K for Filippo Nardi
Spezia have gone to Benevento with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Spezia bid $220.0K for Mattia Viviani
The offer went to Arezzo this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Spezia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Petko Hristov 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Spezia lose Mouhamadou Sarr
14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Maxime Spano 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 Spezia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Gabriel Lunetta has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Spezia know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
In brief
- Market Mohamed Bamba joins Spezia on a free
- Market Diego Mascardi joins Astana on loan for regular minutes
- The dugout Petko Hristov keeps his manager's vote