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Squad1 Feb 2027
86 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Palermo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Antonio Palumbo out for 62 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Palermo will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market1 Feb 2027
Juventus come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Palermo did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market1 Feb 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.
Match30 Jan 2027
8 unbeaten for Palermo
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Palermo did not have in the autumn.
Market1 Feb 2027
Tommaso Augello 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 Palermo hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Mattia Bani 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
The manager makes an example of Dennis Johnsen
“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.
Market1 Feb 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Palermo will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
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Triumph
Squad25 Jan 2027
93 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Palermo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 70 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match23 Jan 2027
Virtus Entella will want this one forgotten quickly: 5‑2, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Palermo were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
A brace, and Aljoša Vasić takes the afternoon — 9.68
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Aljoša Vasić provided it, and the 9.68 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match23 Jan 2027
Palermo make it 7 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Palermo have 7 straight wins of it.
Market25 Jan 2027
Palermo say no — this time
The offer from Zaragoza for Giacomo Corona 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.
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 Palermo can pretend not to have heard.
Squad25 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
18 goals and a season average of 7.24. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
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Triumph
Squad18 Jan 2027
102 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Palermo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Antonio Palumbo out for 78 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Palermo will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match16 Jan 2027
Palermo cannot stop winning
6 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
No sign of nerves from Dro at 19 — 8.45
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Dro did not need any: 8.45, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Lyes Houri: 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.” Palermo have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market18 Jan 2027
Add another name to the list: Inter have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Joel Pohjanpalo. The answer from Palermo has not changed — yet.
Market18 Jan 2027
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Perugia moved on, Bartosz Bereszyński reports back to Palermo, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Mattia Bani 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.
Match16 Jan 2027
Carrarese made Palermo work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
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Triumph
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Defensive actions: 319, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad11 Jan 2027
109 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Palermo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Antonio Palumbo out for 85 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Palermo will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match11 Jan 2027
Palermo up to position 1
39 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
No sign of nerves from Dro at 19 — 8.68
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Dro did not need any: 8.68, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Match9 Jan 2027
Palermo cannot stop winning
5 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
28 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Market11 Jan 2027
Palermo say no — this time
The offer from Hellas Verona for Hernâni 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A season average of 7.30 with 17 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
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Triumph
Squad31 Aug 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Palermo will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market31 Aug 2026
Palermo say no — this time
The offer from St. Gallen for Giacomo Corona 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.
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 Palermo can pretend not to have heard.
Market31 Aug 2026
The chase for Semuel Pizzignacco ended with $1.4M changing hands and Monza out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Real improvement from Dro at Palermo
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Dro is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Mattia Bani 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Altamura have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Giulio Anghileri. The answer from Palermo has not changed — yet.
Squad31 Aug 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over Cesena, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.