The Cittadella Chronicle
Market3 Aug 2026
Francesco Amatucci raises the bar for Cittadella
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Cittadella heard it as anything else.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Mirko Antonucci signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mirko Antonucci and Cittadella agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Cittadella
Grégoire Defrel 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
Giulio Frisenna in trouble away from the ground
Every paper's favourite story and every manager's least. What happened is being dealt with internally, which is the phrase clubs use when they would rather nobody asked again.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Cittadella
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mirko Antonucci was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Door shut on Salvatore Elia
Cittadella asked and Cremonese said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market3 Aug 2026
Talks stall between Cittadella and Grégoire Defrel
“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 Mirko Antonucci's contract
49 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Cittadella ask about Nikita Contini
A loan enquiry to Napoli: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
In brief
- Transfer targets Cittadella try to borrow Milan Majstorović
- Market Tommaso Ferronato leaves for nothing