From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market31 Aug 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Altamura have done the hard part with Molde, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
No thanks: Ewen Jaouen rejects the move
Altamura had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Stade de Reims, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match29 Aug 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Robson Luiz 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.
The dugout31 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Altamura
9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Transfer targets
A loan move for George Puşcaş is in the works
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Player ratings
Vincenzo Millico beats them one at a time
Back issues
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nicola Dipinto and Altamura agree another 4 years.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. IFK Goteborg have kept their man, and Altamura go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Altamura
Robson Luiz and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad24 Aug 2026
47 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan move for Ewen Jaouen is in the works
Altamura have made the call to Stade de Reims. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Altamura say no to the training-ground money
The plan went upstairs and came back down. Nothing about that will make a headline anywhere else, and everybody who works at the training ground will remember it for years.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Altamura did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Rapid Bucharest have kept their man, and Altamura go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Altamura
Robson Luiz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad17 Aug 2026
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Altamura are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Altamura have made the call to Inter. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A loan move for Antonio Arena is in the works
Altamura have made the call to AS Roma. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Altamura say no — this time
The offer from Borneo for Robson Luiz 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Altamura
Ibrahima Mbaye and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Miloš Bočić commits to Altamura for another 3 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Arturo Coppola has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Silvio Monteleone is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ibrahima Mbaye commits to Altamura for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Altamura
Roberto Pirrello and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ibrahima Mbaye 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.
Market3 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Marco Rosafio's contract
24 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
In brief
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Squad
7 new faces, and Altamura are still learning each other
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The dugout
Miloš Bočić knocks on the manager's door