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Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Tommaso Maressa
25 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bra lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad31 Aug 2026
There were 8 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Bra
Franklyn Akammadu 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Bra against Arezzo
1‑3 to Arezzo, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gabriel Melo, and the manager let it.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tommaso Maressa damages knee ligaments — 32 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 32 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Bra
Enrico Baldini and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Juve Stabia have kept their man, and Bra go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Bra training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Franklyn Akammadu 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan move for Patryk Peda is in the works
Bra have made the call to Palermo. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan move for Paco Esteban is in the works
Bra have made the call to Lecce. 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
Bra 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Bra will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mattia La Marca, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
41 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Bra lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The clubs have shaken hands with Casertana; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Bra
Enrico Baldini 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.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Tommaso Maressa
49 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bra lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Torino keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad10 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 Bra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Gabriel Melo and Bra agree another 4 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Bra asked and Torres said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Enrico Baldini and Bra agree another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Bra
Enrico Baldini 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Bra asked and Pescara said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad3 Aug 2026
8 new faces, and Bra 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Bra training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Riccardo Campedelli 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.