From our football correspondent
Triumph
Market31 Aug 2026
Lecce come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Cosenza did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market31 Aug 2026
Aldo Florenzi has left for Parma in a $3.8M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
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 Cosenza can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Reda Rabeï 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 Cosenza this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Cosenza asked and Hellas Verona said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match29 Aug 2026
Picerno made Cosenza work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad31 Aug 2026
14 new faces, and Cosenza 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 ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 7.50 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Cosenza had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Luigi Andreoli could afford to be generous.
Back issues
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Cosenza people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Cosenza
Reda Rabeï and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
4 academy graduates step up at Cosenza
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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Andrea Di Stefano is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market24 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gennaro Costa 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Filippo Romano 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.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Cosenza 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
Picerno next, and one man in the Cosenza dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Supporters make their feelings known about Simone Mazzocchi
The speculation has reached the stands, and the stands have answered. Cosenza would like this settled before it becomes the only thing anybody asks about.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
Parma come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Cosenza did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Cosenza
Reda Rabeï 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 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Benfica 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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. Cosenza will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
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Steady
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Parma, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Cosenza
Paolo Dametto 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
Cosenza asked and Spezia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Reda Rabeï has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Cosenza know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Răzvan Paşcalău and Cosenza agree another 4 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
61 months and counting on Matteo Rizzo
Still no offer on the table, and Matteo Rizzo’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Răzvan Paşcalău
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Aldo Florenzi signs something — a contract at Cosenza or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A season on the outside for Reda Rabeï
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Cosenza has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Aldo Florenzi commits to Cosenza for another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Cosenza
Mario Perlingieri 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 Cosenza
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gianluca Clemente was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market3 Aug 2026
24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Cosenza
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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Parma: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.