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Crisis
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 Arzignano can pretend not to have heard.
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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Arzignano have done the hard part with Juventus, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
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 Arzignano this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Aris Thessaloniki have kept their man, and Arzignano go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match29 Aug 2026
Vicenza left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nicolò Bianchi, and the manager let it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Arzignano know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Arzignano
12 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.
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Steady
Squad24 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 Arzignano this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Mattia Damiani 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Sion have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Arzignano have made the call to PSV. 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
Arzignano 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.
Looking ahead24 Aug 2026
Vicenza next, and one man in the Arzignano dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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Steady
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Monza, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Erald Lakti 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 Arzignano this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Arzignano
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mattia Damiani was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets17 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Adrián Maidana
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Arzignano will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Market17 Aug 2026
Arzignano bring in an old head
Adrián Maidana is 38 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Eddy Lanzi 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 Arzignano can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nicola Nanni commits to Arzignano for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Arzignano
Erald Lakti 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.
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
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Tiziano Silvestri is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Franco Paro has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Emanuele Cecconi has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nicola Nanni, and the manager let it.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Sassuolo: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Erald Lakti and Arzignano agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Erald Lakti and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Arzignano
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mattia Damiani was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Arzignano, another week without a signature from Mattia Minesso.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Andrea Mattioli’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
8 new faces, and Arzignano 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.