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Crisis
Match6 Mar 2027
The wait goes on for Cagliari
11 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Christian Franco out for 74 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Cagliari will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A one-man rearguard from Alen Sherri
There were 6 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Cagliari
Yerry Mina and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Vincent Sierro and Cagliari agree another 3 years.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of M'Bala Nzola
“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.
Match6 Mar 2027
Udinese left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Loan watch8 Mar 2027
“I did not go to Bologna to sit and watch. I want to come back to Cagliari and fight for my place.” 7 appearances in 29 matches say the rest.
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Uneasy
Match27 Feb 2027
10 matches without a win for Cagliari
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Cagliari are no longer polite ones.
Squad1 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Christian Franco out for 81 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Cagliari will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market1 Mar 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Cagliari
Yerry Mina 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.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Vincent Sierro 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.
Market1 Mar 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Gennaro Borrelli has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Cagliari.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
No place for M'Bala Nzola on the big day
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Cagliari pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Marked 7.89 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Cagliari had the best player on the pitch.
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Crisis
Match20 Feb 2027
9 matches without a win for Cagliari
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Cagliari are no longer polite ones.
Squad22 Feb 2027
9 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.
Match20 Feb 2027
Nowhere to hide for Cagliari
0‑3 against AS Roma, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Match22 Feb 2027
Every point is an argument now for Cagliari
Position 18 and 14 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Christian Franco out for 90 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Cagliari will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market22 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Yerry Mina 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 dugout22 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Yerry Mina
“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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at Cagliari training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vincent Sierro 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.
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Crisis
Match13 Feb 2027
Nowhere to hide for Cagliari
1‑4 against Bologna, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market15 Feb 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Cagliari, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 98 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match13 Feb 2027
No end in sight to Cagliari's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Cagliari has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Yerry Mina 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 Cagliari this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words at Cagliari training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yukinari Sugawara 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.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
“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.
Boardroom15 Feb 2027
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Loan watch15 Feb 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Cagliari, and 6 appearances in 26 say he has earned the hearing.
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Uneasy
Match6 Feb 2027
7 matches without a win for Cagliari
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Cagliari are no longer polite ones.
Squad8 Feb 2027
281 appearances across 15 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Market8 Feb 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Cagliari, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market8 Feb 2027
The Empoli deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Leonardo Pavoletti reports back to Cagliari with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Cagliari
Yerry Mina and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Yukinari Sugawara 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.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Vincent Sierro
“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.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Loan watch8 Feb 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Cagliari, and 7 appearances in 25 say he has earned the hearing.
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Uneasy
Squad1 Feb 2027
Leonardo Pavoletti damages knee ligaments — 19 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 19 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
Business is business: Elia Caprile goes
Basel paid $25.9M and Cagliari took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Market1 Feb 2027
Zé Pedro 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 Cagliari can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cagliari have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad1 Feb 2027
281 appearances across 15 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Cagliari know what they have.
Match30 Jan 2027
The wait goes on for Cagliari
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
The terraces1 Feb 2027
Elia Caprile has gone, the accounts have $25.9M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Deadline passes with 1 signed and 1 gone
That is the business done at Cagliari until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
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Crisis
Squad25 Jan 2027
Leonardo Pavoletti damages knee ligaments — 26 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 26 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A one-man rearguard from Elia Caprile
There were 10 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.
Match20 Jan 2027
The small margins put Cagliari out
Out, 0‑4 to Napoli, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Match23 Jan 2027
Chastening afternoon for Cagliari
A 0‑3 beating by Inter was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Market25 Jan 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Cagliari, and it is not being withdrawn.
The terraces25 Jan 2027
A cup embarrassment at Napoli follows Cagliari home
0-4. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.
Market25 Jan 2027
Add another name to the list: Basel have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Elia Caprile. The answer from Cagliari has not changed — yet.
Match23 Jan 2027
The wait goes on for Cagliari
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 25. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
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Crisis
Squad18 Jan 2027
Leonardo Pavoletti damages knee ligaments — 33 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 33 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.
Match16 Jan 2027
Chastening afternoon for Cagliari
A 0‑5 beating by Lazio was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Market18 Jan 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.
Market18 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A one-man rearguard from Elia Caprile
There were 6 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Lucas Picech gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Lucas Picech has just signed for Cagliari, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Cagliari
Elia Caprile 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 targets18 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. CSKA Moscow have kept their man, and Cagliari go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to M'Bala Nzola, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Squad11 Jan 2027
42 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Cagliari lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad11 Jan 2027
10 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Elia Caprile 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 targets11 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Casarano have kept their man, and Cagliari go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match9 Jan 2027
Napoli left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Cagliari training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vincent Sierro 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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Vincent Sierro
“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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Flavio Agostini left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
M'Bala Nzola knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Cagliari, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Crisis
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Up for the corner, and Michel Ndary Adopo delivers — 7.88
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Michel Ndary Adopo scored, was marked 7.88, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Elia Caprile 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 Cagliari this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Cagliari asked and Catanzaro said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match2 Jan 2027
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Cagliari
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yukinari Sugawara was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
No hiding place for Zé Pedro
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Zé Pedro, and the manager let it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Cagliari know it.
Loan watch4 Jan 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Cagliari, and 17 appearances in 20 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Flavio Agostini to a room that had heard them before.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Cagliari
Elia Caprile and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces28 Dec 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Jacopo Fazzini has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match26 Dec 2026
Hellas Verona made Cagliari work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Cagliari training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Simone Giordano 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.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.02, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alessandro Deiola, and the manager let it.
Match28 Dec 2026
The half-term report on Cagliari
Position 17, 12 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.
Loan watch28 Dec 2026
“I watch every Cagliari game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Bologna runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Crisis
Market21 Dec 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Yerry Mina 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 Cagliari this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match19 Dec 2026
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Daniel Maldini
11 goals and a season average of 7.26 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Cagliari
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vincent Sierro was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Alberto Dossena
“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.
Loan watch21 Dec 2026
“I did not go to AS Roma to sit and watch. I want to come back to Cagliari and fight for my place.” 6 appearances in 18 matches say the rest.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
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Steady
Match9 Dec 2026
Cup progress for Cagliari
A 1‑0 win over Cesena, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Match9 Dec 2026
Cagliari win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 108th minute. Cesena will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
No sign of nerves from Raphael Kofler at 21 — 7.85
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Raphael Kofler did not need any: 7.85, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Up for the corner, and Michel Ndary Adopo delivers — 7.85
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Michel Ndary Adopo scored, was marked 7.85, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Cagliari
Yerry Mina and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Dec 2026
The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Alberto Dossena, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match12 Dec 2026
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Cagliari and Atalanta in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
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Crisis
Match5 Dec 2026
Nowhere to hide for Cagliari
0‑3 against AC Milan, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Cagliari
Yerry Mina 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.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Elia Caprile, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Cagliari training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yukinari Sugawara 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.
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
Nobody left the Cagliari dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Flavio Agostini after 0‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Market7 Dec 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.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Enzo Ebosse has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Cagliari will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Uneasy
Match28 Nov 2026
The drought breaks for Cagliari
15 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Cremonese were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.07, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Cagliari
Elia Caprile and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match28 Nov 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Daniel Maldini’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Cagliari.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Cagliari
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vincent Sierro was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alessandro Deiola, and the manager let it.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Daniel Maldini
9 goals and a season average of 7.21 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Loan watch30 Nov 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Cagliari, and 5 appearances in 15 say he has earned the hearing.
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Crisis
Match21 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for Cagliari
15 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market23 Nov 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.
Match23 Nov 2026
Every point is an argument now for Cagliari
Position 18 and 6 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Cagliari
Elia Caprile 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Cagliari
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Adam Obert was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vincent Sierro, and the manager let it.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad23 Nov 2026
The ambition story running the other way, and the one nobody tells: a footballer asking for a smaller stage, fewer cameras and a crowd that does not turn. It is not weakness and it is very rarely reported as anything else.
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Crisis
Match14 Nov 2026
14 matches without a win for Cagliari
The run now stands at 14, and the questions being asked around Cagliari are no longer polite ones.
Squad16 Nov 2026
12 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
Beaten 0‑3 by Juventus, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Elia Caprile 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Cagliari training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Simone Giordano 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.
Boardroom16 Nov 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Ten men and a goalkeeper behind him, and it still finished in the net. He knew before anybody told him, and nobody at Cagliari needed to.
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Uneasy
Match7 Nov 2026
13 matches without a win for Cagliari
The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Cagliari are no longer polite ones.
Match4 Nov 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Kevin Carlos obliged against Casertana. 1‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Cagliari.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Alen Sherri is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Alen Sherri: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Elia Caprile 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 Cagliari this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match7 Nov 2026
Lecce left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Yerry Mina
“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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Chances created: 15. Nothing on the scoresheet and everything in the match: the pass before the pass, over and over, until the defence stopped guessing right.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.71 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Crisis
Match31 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Cagliari's wait for a win
11 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Cagliari has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market2 Nov 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Yerry Mina 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Cagliari against Parma
0‑2 to Parma, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Cagliari training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yukinari Sugawara 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alessandro Deiola, and the manager let it.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Cagliari, and 11 appearances in 11 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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Uneasy
Match24 Oct 2026
10 matches without a win for Cagliari
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Cagliari are no longer polite ones.
Market26 Oct 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Yerry Mina 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 Cagliari this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Cagliari
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yukinari Sugawara was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Leonardo Pavoletti, and the manager let it.
Match24 Oct 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Flavio Agostini after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Cagliari will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
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Uneasy
Match17 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Cagliari's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Cagliari has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.56 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Cagliari
Yerry Mina and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Alessandro Romano is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match17 Oct 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Cagliari and Pisa in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Alieu Fadera beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.94 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Cagliari
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vincent Sierro was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Zé Pedro gets it from the manager
“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.
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Crisis
Match10 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Cagliari
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A one-man rearguard from Elia Caprile
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Elia Caprile 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 Cagliari this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match10 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Yukinari Sugawara 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
The dugout12 Oct 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Flavio Agostini to a room that had heard them before.
In brief
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Looking ahead
M'Bala Nzola faces his old club
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The dugout
The plan did not have a place for Zé Pedro
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The dugout
Zé Pedro has been promised minutes
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Cagliari
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Cagliari
Elia Caprile and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Cagliari training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Simone Giordano 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Marked 8.12 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The dugout5 Oct 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
14 new faces, and Cagliari 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
It needed Daniel Maldini to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Bologna, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Simone Giordano dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
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Crisis
Match26 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Cagliari
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Cagliari
Elia Caprile 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.
The dugout28 Sep 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Como left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Cagliari
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vincent Sierro was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Flavio Agostini to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Enzo Ebosse
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Market28 Sep 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Elia Caprile’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Gennaro Borrelli asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Match19 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Cagliari
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Cagliari are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Elia Caprile 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Alessandro Romano is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Yukinari Sugawara 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 8.18 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The dugout21 Sep 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
It needed Daniel Maldini to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Fiorentina, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout21 Sep 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
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Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match12 Sep 2026
Nowhere to hide for Cagliari
0‑3 against Inter, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Empoli have kept their man, and Cagliari go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Cagliari will try again when the window opens; Sassuolo may not be selling by then.
Match12 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Cagliari
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Cagliari are no longer polite ones.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Yukinari Sugawara 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vincent Sierro, and the manager let it.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Cagliari
Samuele Perisan 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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Uneasy
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
$7.7M settles it between the clubs for Edoardo Pieragnolo
Sassuolo have accepted the money. What Cagliari do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Inter have kept their man, and Cagliari go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Cagliari will try again when the window opens; Cruz Azul may not be selling by then.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 7 in, 6 out at Cagliari
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 7 arrived, 6 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Yerry Mina 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Cagliari
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Adam Obert was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
13 new faces, and Cagliari 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 16 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Cagliari asked and Cruz Azul said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Simone Giordano gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Simone Giordano has just signed for Cagliari, and for once the answer mattered.
Market31 Aug 2026
The chase for Samuele Perisan ended with $890.0K changing hands and Empoli out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Yerry Mina 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 Cagliari this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Cagliari training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yukinari Sugawara 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Cagliari rescue it on 94 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 94. Napoli had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match29 Aug 2026
It needed Daniel Maldini to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Napoli, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Crisis
Market24 Aug 2026
Business is business: Mattia Felici goes
Lazio paid $8.2M and Cagliari took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Market24 Aug 2026
The chase for Enzo Ebosse ended with $990.0K changing hands and Torino out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
The game went through Adam Obert — 7.14
Marked 7.14 on 17 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Elia Caprile 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.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
3 academy graduates step up at Cagliari
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Como have kept their man, and Cagliari go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match22 Aug 2026
Daniel Maldini scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Torino, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market24 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gregorio Caprioli 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.
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Steady
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$2.3M was the most the club would pay and Sassuolo 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$570.0K on the table at Torino. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Elia Caprile 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 Cagliari this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ipswich Town have kept their man, and Cagliari go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Michel Ndary Adopo, and the manager let it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Vincent Sierro 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
No place for Vincent Sierro in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Cagliari are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Looking ahead17 Aug 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Torino in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Loan watch17 Aug 2026
The goals keep arriving from Kingstone Mutandwa’s exile
2 goals in 3 games at SV Ried — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Cagliari updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Cagliari have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Cagliari offered $8.0M; Sassuolo said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Vincent Sierro would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Vincent Sierro is living that version at Cagliari, and it tends to show in the first month.
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 offer went to Sassuolo 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Elia Caprile and Cagliari agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Cagliari
Elia Caprile 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The name of Riyad Idrissi has come up in conversations Cagliari were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Elia Caprile
“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.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
Lazio come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Cagliari did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad3 Aug 2026
15 seasons and 276 appearances, all of them here. Careers like this are not designed; they happen to a certain kind of man at a certain kind of club, and this town has one.
Market3 Aug 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” M'Bala Nzola commits to Cagliari for another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Cagliari
Elia Caprile and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Yael Trepy has come up in conversations Cagliari were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.