From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
There were 7 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Antonio Ferrara: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cosenza have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market28 Dec 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Cosenza is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A season average of 7.14 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Cosenza know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages eat 246% of everything Cosenza earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Aldo Florenzi is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.30 with 5 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
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Steady
Squad21 Dec 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 Dec 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.
Market21 Dec 2026
The Jaime Báez talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Cosenza know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Match12 Dec 2026
A bad afternoon for Cosenza against Catania
1-2 to Catania, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad14 Dec 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Aldo Florenzi is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.23 with 4 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
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Upbeat
Match5 Dec 2026
Three points for Cosenza, 2-0 the final word against Latina in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad7 Dec 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 Dec 2026
“I will know when it is time. I am not there yet.” Giacomo Beretta is 34, with 3 appearances behind him, and Cosenza will have to plan for whichever answer comes.
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Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
There were 7 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.
Market30 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Cosenza is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A season average of 7.06 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Cosenza know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
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Upbeat
Match21 Nov 2026
Three points for Cosenza, 2-1 the final word against Siracusa in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad23 Nov 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.
Market23 Nov 2026
The Jaime Báez talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Cosenza know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match14 Nov 2026
Audace Cerignola made Cosenza work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad16 Nov 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.
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Uneasy
Match4 Nov 2026
The cup run ends for Cosenza
1-3 against Avellino, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Andrea Moretti
“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.
Match7 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Potenza will be the happier side with the point.
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Steady
Market2 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Cosenza is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A season average of 7.01 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Cosenza know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 297% of everything Cosenza earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
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Steady
Match24 Oct 2026
Three points for Cosenza, 2-1 the final word against Foggia in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad26 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.
Market26 Oct 2026
The Jaime Báez talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Cosenza know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad26 Oct 2026
At 29 he has made the position his own, and the man he took it from has to find something to say about it. Cosenza have a decision that made itself.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
Column inches are not points, but a footballer whose name keeps appearing for the right reasons is a footballer whose price has just gone up.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The selectors could not leave Simone Mazzocchi out
7.01 across ninety minutes and a place in the division's team of the week. He was the best player on that pitch and everybody there knew it.
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Uneasy
Match17 Oct 2026
4 matches without a win for Cosenza
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Cosenza are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Trapani defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Crisis
Squad12 Oct 2026
28 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match10 Oct 2026
Casertana left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad12 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.
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Uneasy
Market5 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Cosenza is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad5 Oct 2026
At 20, Mario Perlingieri is already the best thing here
An average of 7.00 in a first team he is several years too young for. Cosenza have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 499% of everything Cosenza earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Leon Bätge 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
2-2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad5 Oct 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Cosenza have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
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Steady
Match23 Sep 2026
Cup progress for Cosenza
A 1-0 win over Siracusa, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Squad28 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Matteo Soncin lets one through his hands
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Match26 Sep 2026
A 2-2 draw with Cavese leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad28 Sep 2026
At 21 years old, Sofiane Achour became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
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Crisis
Match19 Sep 2026
Beaten 1-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad21 Sep 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“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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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 57 days on the sidelines for Jaime Báez, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match12 Sep 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Monopoli defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Antonio Ferrara 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Cosenza is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Wages eat 493% of everything Cosenza earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad7 Sep 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
A 1-1 draw with Picerno leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Cosenza will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It is a strip of cloth and it decides nothing on a Saturday. It still tells the dressing room exactly whose opinion the manager values, which is the whole point of it.
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Triumph
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market31 Aug 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Three points for Cosenza, 2-1 the final word against Altamura in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Cosenza has been clear about where Christian Langella stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad31 Aug 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market24 Aug 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Cosenza will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Market24 Aug 2026
Valentino Spinelli is 16, and Cosenza have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of Sofiane Achour has come up in conversations Cosenza were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A new face in his position, and Matteo Soncin suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Cosenza have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Market17 Aug 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Racine Ba may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” David Button and Cosenza agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market10 Aug 2026
Francesco Sartori is 20, and Cosenza have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Market10 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Pietro Ciotti's contract
48 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Alessandro Arioli has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Cosenza.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A new face in his position, and Matteo Soncin suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Cosenza have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Aldo Florenzi and Cosenza agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market3 Aug 2026
36 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Racine Ba told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Racine Ba has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Cosenza.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It is a strip of cloth and it decides nothing on a Saturday. It still tells the dressing room exactly whose opinion the manager values, which is the whole point of it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“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.