From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market13 Mar 2028
“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 The request is on a desk at Foggia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match11 Mar 2028
At last: Foggia win one
9 matches without a win, and then this, against Altamura. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
The dugout13 Mar 2028
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings13 Mar 2028
Up for the corner, and Mamadou Coulibaly delivers — 7.67
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Mamadou Coulibaly scored, was marked 7.67, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad13 Mar 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Foggia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces13 Mar 2028
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match11 Mar 2028
Altamura made Foggia work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad13 Mar 2028
A row about effort at Foggia
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gianmarco Todisco was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom13 Mar 2028
97% of the income goes out in wages at Foggia
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
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Match4 Mar 2028
9 matches without a win for Foggia
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Foggia are no longer polite ones.
Market6 Mar 2028
“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 The request is on a desk at Foggia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings6 Mar 2028
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout6 Mar 2028
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Match4 Mar 2028
Giuseppe Panico scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Cosenza, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad6 Mar 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Foggia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout6 Mar 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ramiro Costa, and the manager let it.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Words at Foggia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gianmarco Todisco 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 dugout6 Mar 2028
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Riccardo Brosco will call it something else in private.
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Match26 Feb 2028
8 matches without a win for Foggia
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Foggia are no longer polite ones.
Squad28 Feb 2028
7 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.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Words exchanged at Foggia
Riyad Idrissi 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.
Match26 Feb 2028
Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Ramiro Costa 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 dugout28 Feb 2028
The manager makes an example of Filippo Manfrin
“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 dugout28 Feb 2028
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 2‑3 Pietro Alberti left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
Felice D'Amico has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Foggia 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.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Crisis
Match19 Feb 2028
7 matches without a win for Foggia
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Foggia are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Tempers go at Foggia
Filippo Manfrin 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 Feb 2028
A row about effort at Foggia
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ramiro Costa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match19 Feb 2028
0‑1 to Benevento, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout21 Feb 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gabriele Morelli, and the manager let it.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Too much change too quickly at Foggia
9 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.
The dugout21 Feb 2028
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 Pietro Alberti to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout21 Feb 2028
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout21 Feb 2028
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Riccardo Brosco trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Crisis
Market14 Feb 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Foggia can pretend not to have heard.
Match12 Feb 2028
The wait goes on for Foggia
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.
Squad14 Feb 2028
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.
The dugout14 Feb 2028
Angelo Vapore: 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.” Foggia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad14 Feb 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Foggia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Yaroslav Martynyuk has just signed for Foggia, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets14 Feb 2028
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AZ have kept their man, and Foggia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match12 Feb 2028
A bad afternoon for Foggia against Catania
0‑1 to Catania, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad14 Feb 2028
A row about effort at Foggia
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gianmarco Todisco was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Player ratings7 Feb 2028
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.95, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market7 Feb 2028
Spezia come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Foggia did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match5 Feb 2028
No end in sight to Foggia's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Foggia has to find a result from somewhere.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Deadline passes with 7 signed and 7 gone
That is the business done at Foggia 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.
The dugout7 Feb 2028
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Squad7 Feb 2028
A falling-out at Foggia
Riyad Idrissi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets7 Feb 2028
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Foggia will try again when the window opens; Napoli may not be selling by then.
Match5 Feb 2028
A bad afternoon for Foggia against Latina
2‑3 to Latina, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad7 Feb 2028
A row about effort at Foggia
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ramiro Costa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Crisis
Market31 Jan 2028
“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 Foggia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets31 Jan 2028
The deal with Napoli is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Market31 Jan 2028
Foggia get their man
The chase for Giuseppe Guadagni ended with $2.1M changing hands and Picerno out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Match29 Jan 2028
The wait goes on for Foggia
4 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.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Words exchanged at Foggia
Riyad Idrissi 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.
Match29 Jan 2028
The goals have deserted Foggia
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Foggia can tell you which week it ends in.
Market31 Jan 2028
Cremonese pay $610.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
The terraces31 Jan 2028
Foggia spend $2.1M on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $2.1M for Giuseppe Guadagni, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Transfer targets31 Jan 2028
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Udinese have kept their man, and Foggia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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Uneasy
Market24 Jan 2028
“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 Foggia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets24 Jan 2028
Foggia and Picerno have settled on $2.1M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Transfer targets24 Jan 2028
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Sassuolo keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Tempers go at Foggia
Riyad Idrissi 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.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Gabriele Mazzetti has just signed for Foggia, and for once the answer mattered.
Market24 Jan 2028
Add another name to the list: Altamura have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Hamza Haoudi. The answer from Foggia has not changed — yet.
Match22 Jan 2028
3 matches without a goal for Foggia
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Transfer targets24 Jan 2028
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Napoli have kept their man, and Foggia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces24 Jan 2028
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
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Market17 Jan 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Foggia can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets17 Jan 2028
Foggia had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Alcione Milano, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Transfer targets17 Jan 2028
Foggia asked and Triestina said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad17 Jan 2028
A falling-out at Foggia
Lorenzo Bonsignori Goggi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match15 Jan 2028
0‑1 to Audace Cerignola, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad17 Jan 2028
A row about effort at Foggia
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gianmarco Todisco was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout17 Jan 2028
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 Pietro Alberti left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad17 Jan 2028
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
Transfer targets17 Jan 2028
A loan enquiry to Sassuolo: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
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Market10 Jan 2028
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Crotone waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Foggia is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
$660.0K settles it between the clubs for Gabriele Bernardotto
Monopoli have accepted the money. What Foggia do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Jason Anastasini has just signed for Foggia, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
The paperwork begins on Racine Ba
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Foggia have done the hard part with Dolomiti Bellunesi, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Pianese have kept their man, and Foggia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad10 Jan 2028
A falling-out at Foggia
Riyad Idrissi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings10 Jan 2028
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match8 Jan 2028
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Words at Foggia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gianmarco Todisco 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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The dugout3 Jan 2028
Riccardo Brosco: 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.” Foggia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad3 Jan 2028
A falling-out at Foggia
Filippo Manfrin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets3 Jan 2028
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.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Gianmarco Todisco 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.
Market3 Jan 2028
No place for Maxime Giron in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Maxime Giron has his answer from Foggia; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad3 Jan 2028
The award goes to Giuseppe Panico, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.
The dugout3 Jan 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hamza Haoudi, and the manager let it.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Angelo Vapore slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Angelo Vapore is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
The dugout3 Jan 2028
Felice D'Amico has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Foggia 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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Squad27 Dec 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Foggia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout27 Dec 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.
Match25 Dec 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Giuseppe Panico. 1‑0 against Casarano, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad27 Dec 2027
A row about effort at Foggia
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gianmarco Todisco was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings27 Dec 2027
Marked 7.96. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
The dugout27 Dec 2027
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Pietro Alberti on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout27 Dec 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Foggia, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Player ratings27 Dec 2027
Successful dribbles: 13. 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 dugout27 Dec 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Christian Tommasini's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
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Player ratings20 Dec 2027
A brace, and Giuseppe Panico takes the afternoon — 8.89
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Giuseppe Panico provided it, and the 8.89 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Tempers go at Foggia
Riyad Idrissi 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.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Gianmarco Todisco 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 dugout20 Dec 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.
Match18 Dec 2027
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout20 Dec 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Federico Zuccon trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout20 Dec 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Pietro Alberti was not hiding it after 2‑2, and nobody in the Foggia dressing room was either.
The dugout20 Dec 2027
Somebody else is better right now than Gabriele Morelli
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.
Market20 Dec 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Foggia know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Crisis
Squad13 Dec 2027
Words exchanged at Foggia
Riyad Idrissi 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 dugout13 Dec 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.
Match11 Dec 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Gianmarco Todisco 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 dugout13 Dec 2027
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
The dugout13 Dec 2027
“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.
Player ratings13 Dec 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. 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 dugout13 Dec 2027
Riyad Idrissi gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Riyad Idrissi is on it.
Player ratings13 Dec 2027
Shots: 14, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
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Squad6 Dec 2027
A falling-out at Foggia
Riyad Idrissi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match4 Dec 2027
Giugliano made Foggia work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings6 Dec 2027
A performance of 8.60 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings6 Dec 2027
Marked 8.58. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Foggia.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Gianmarco Todisco 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 dugout6 Dec 2027
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Pietro Alberti could afford to be generous.
Market6 Dec 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Vincenzo Garofalo has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Foggia.
The dugout6 Dec 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.
The dugout6 Dec 2027
Vincenzo Garofalo has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Foggia 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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Market29 Nov 2027
Filippo Berra 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 Foggia can pretend not to have heard.
Squad29 Nov 2027
7 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.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
Alessio Nepi: 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.” Foggia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Words at Foggia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gianmarco Todisco 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 ratings29 Nov 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.10, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match27 Nov 2027
Foggia hit back inside 2 minutes
Cavese held the lead for 2 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. Foggia answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Tempers go at Foggia
Felice D'Amico 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 dugout29 Nov 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Felice D'Amico, and the manager let it.
Match27 Nov 2027
Honours even between Foggia and Cavese
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Crisis
Match20 Nov 2027
Giuseppe Panico scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Sorrento, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Riccardo Brosco
“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 Nov 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Foggia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Nov 2027
A row about effort at Foggia
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Hamza Haoudi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout22 Nov 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 1‑3 Pietro Alberti left the room before anybody could ask which.
Player ratings22 Nov 2027
Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
A promise honoured at Foggia
Something was said to Hamza Haoudi and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Market22 Nov 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Foggia know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Upbeat
Match13 Nov 2027
Whatever happens, Foggia do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Words exchanged at Foggia
Filippo Manfrin 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.
Match13 Nov 2027
Three points for Foggia, 1‑0 the final word against Monopoli in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Gianmarco Todisco 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 ratings15 Nov 2027
A performance of 8.10 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
“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 dugout15 Nov 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Pietro Alberti kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
Riyad Idrissi gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Riyad Idrissi is on it.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Foggia, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Squad8 Nov 2027
Cesare Ferraro 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.
Match3 Nov 2027
The small margins put Foggia out
Out, 3‑3 to Modena, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Market8 Nov 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 Foggia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Antonino Viola decides it from twelve yards
1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Squad8 Nov 2027
6 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.
Player ratings8 Nov 2027
Federico Zuccon pops up at the right end — 7.93
7.93, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Foggia may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad8 Nov 2027
A falling-out at Foggia
Filippo Manfrin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match6 Nov 2027
Still nobody has beaten Foggia
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad1 Nov 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Cesare Ferraro
26 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Foggia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
A brace, and Ferdinando Del Sole takes the afternoon — 9.06
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ferdinando Del Sole provided it, and the 9.06 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market1 Nov 2027
Filippo Berra 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 Foggia can pretend not to have heard.
Squad1 Nov 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Foggia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match30 Oct 2027
Three points for Foggia, 2‑1 the final word against Altamura in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces1 Nov 2027
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
Ninety minutes of Riyad Idrissi at his very best
Marked 8.15. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Foggia.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Words at Foggia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hamza Haoudi 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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Alessio Nepi slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Alessio Nepi is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The manager makes an example of Hamza Haoudi
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Player ratings
Mamadou Coulibaly beats them one at a time
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad25 Oct 2027
Cesare Ferraro 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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
A defender's goal wins it for Foggia — 7.58
1 for Gianmarco Todisco, marked 7.58, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Tempers go at Foggia
Riyad Idrissi 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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Words at Foggia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gianmarco Todisco 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 ratings25 Oct 2027
Ninety minutes of Giuseppe Panico at his very best
Marked 8.07. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Foggia.
Match23 Oct 2027
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout25 Oct 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Davide Petermann, and the manager let it.
The dugout25 Oct 2027
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 2‑2, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
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Upbeat
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.98 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Words exchanged at Foggia
Riyad Idrissi 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.
Match16 Oct 2027
A 2‑1 win over Salernitana, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad18 Oct 2027
100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Pietro Alberti, on a 2‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Christian Tommasini, and the manager let it.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Looking ahead18 Oct 2027
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Federico Zuccon’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Foggia needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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Steady
Match9 Oct 2027
It finished 2‑0, and it was Giuseppe Panico’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Foggia.
Player ratings11 Oct 2027
Ferdinando Del Sole was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.39. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings11 Oct 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.23, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Daniel Farías 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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Words exchanged at Foggia
Felice D'Amico 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 dugout11 Oct 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alessio Nepi, and the manager let it.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑0, already talking about the next one.
Player ratings11 Oct 2027
15 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Foggia told Felice D'Amico something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
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Crisis
Squad4 Oct 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 19 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market4 Oct 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.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Foggia may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match2 Oct 2027
Catania left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Words at Foggia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel Farías 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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Tempers go at Foggia
Felice D'Amico 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.
Market4 Oct 2027
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Foggia has been clear about where Gabriele Morelli stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout4 Oct 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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Foggia are still strangers to each other
8 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
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Uneasy
Match22 Sep 2027
Foggia march on in the cup
Sampdoria are out and Foggia go through, 3‑2 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match22 Sep 2027
Angelo Vapore wins it after the whistle should have gone
102 minutes played. Angelo Vapore found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Sampdoria went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Two goals and a mark of 9.12 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 26 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 30. 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 dugout27 Sep 2027
Antonino Viola: 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.” Foggia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Two of the goals had his name somewhere on them, which is the afternoon a manager wants from anybody asked to both create and finish. 7.91, and 2 involvements.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Tempers go at Foggia
Filippo Manfrin 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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad20 Sep 2027
A fracture rules Francesco Rizzo out for 34 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Foggia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Foggia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
7.34, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Till Winkelmann is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.
Match18 Sep 2027
The wait goes on for Foggia
4 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.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Words exchanged at Foggia
Filippo Manfrin 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.
Squad20 Sep 2027
At 28 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
Transfer targets20 Sep 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Cagliari have kept their man, and Foggia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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Crisis
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 34. 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 dugout13 Sep 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Foggia may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad13 Sep 2027
A fracture rules Francesco Rizzo out for 41 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Foggia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market13 Sep 2027
Maxime Giron 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 Foggia can pretend not to have heard.
Squad13 Sep 2027
At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad13 Sep 2027
A falling-out at Foggia
Riyad Idrissi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Federico Zuccon has improved at 24, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Market13 Sep 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Foggia have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Transfer targets13 Sep 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sassuolo have kept their man, and Foggia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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Steady
Squad6 Sep 2027
Davide Petermann damages knee ligaments — 17 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 17 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
48 days out for Francesco Rizzo after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Foggia will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout6 Sep 2027
Davide Petermann: 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.” Foggia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2027
$260.0K settles it between the clubs for Alessandro De Cortes
Lazio have accepted the money. What Foggia do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Market6 Sep 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Foggia can pretend not to have heard.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Riyad Idrissi is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Window shuts: 16 in, 9 out at Foggia
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 16 arrived, 9 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Riccardo Brosco commits to Foggia for another 2 years.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Napoli have kept their man, and Foggia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad30 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Davide Petermann
25 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Foggia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Francesco Rizzo out for 55 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Foggia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market30 Aug 2027
The bid was some way short and Foggia did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market30 Aug 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.
Match28 Aug 2027
After 10 games, Foggia finally taste it again
The first defeat in 10 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Potenza; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Milán Demeter is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Foggia
Riyad Idrissi 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 targets30 Aug 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Trento have kept their man, and Foggia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match28 Aug 2027
A bad afternoon for Foggia against Potenza
0‑1 to Potenza, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad23 Aug 2027
Elia Antonucci damages knee ligaments — 17 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 17 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.
Market23 Aug 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 62 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market23 Aug 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Foggia have lost him in all but the paperwork.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Foggia may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Till Winkelmann is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
The board have signed the man in the dugout to a longer contract, which says more than any statement of support. Stability is easy to promise and costly to keep.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Foggia
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Mamadou Coulibaly has improved at 28, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad16 Aug 2027
24 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Foggia lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad16 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Francesco Rizzo out for 70 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Foggia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market16 Aug 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.
Market16 Aug 2027
Foggia say no — this time
The offer from Trento for Marco Bevilacqua was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad16 Aug 2027
At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sassuolo have kept their man, and Foggia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Foggia
Felice D'Amico 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 dugout16 Aug 2027
“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 dugout16 Aug 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Giuseppe Panico trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad9 Aug 2027
Davide Petermann damages knee ligaments — 49 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 49 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Francesco Rizzo out for 77 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Foggia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market9 Aug 2027
Udinese come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Foggia did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market9 Aug 2027
The phone has started ringing about Christian Tommasini again, and this time the name on the line is Reggiana. Foggia are listening politely and promising nothing.
Market9 Aug 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Foggia is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad9 Aug 2027
At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad9 Aug 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Foggia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Pisa have kept their man, and Foggia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ferdinando Del Sole, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad2 Aug 2027
Davide Petermann damages knee ligaments — 59 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 59 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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 84 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Transfer targets2 Aug 2027
Everything agreed with Napoli, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Market2 Aug 2027
The fee is $710.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Arzignano drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Foggia
Filippo Manfrin 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 targets2 Aug 2027
Foggia asked and Napoli said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad2 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Foggia
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Daniel Farías was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout2 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Felice D'Amico
“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.
Market2 Aug 2027
Foggia have made Federico Zuccon available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad26 Jul 2027
66 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Foggia lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 91 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market26 Jul 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Foggia people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market26 Jul 2027
Carrarese come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Foggia did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
Foggia and Arzignano have settled on $710.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Market26 Jul 2027
The fee is $380.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Altamura drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad26 Jul 2027
A falling-out at Foggia
Giuseppe Panico and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market26 Jul 2027
Triestina pay $260.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
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.
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Squad19 Jul 2027
Davide Petermann damages knee ligaments — 74 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 74 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.
Market19 Jul 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Foggia can pretend not to have heard.
The terraces19 Jul 2027
Gianluca Saro has gone, the accounts have $2.1M 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.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Foggia had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Torino, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Market19 Jul 2027
Business is business: Gianluca Saro goes
HNK Rijeka paid $2.1M and Foggia took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
The deal with Gubbio is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at Foggia
Giuseppe Panico 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 targets19 Jul 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Arezzo have kept their man, and Foggia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words at Foggia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gianmarco Todisco 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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Upbeat
Squad12 Jul 2027
Davide Petermann damages knee ligaments — 81 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 81 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.
Market12 Jul 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Foggia have lost him in all but the paperwork.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Foggia may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
Foggia and Torino have settled on $550.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Market12 Jul 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 Foggia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Como have kept their man, and Foggia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Tempers go at Foggia
Giuseppe Panico 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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Till Winkelmann and Foggia agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad12 Jul 2027
23 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
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Squad5 Jul 2027
Davide Petermann damages knee ligaments — 88 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 88 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.
Market5 Jul 2027
Udinese come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Foggia did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market5 Jul 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Foggia can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout5 Jul 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Foggia may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market5 Jul 2027
Foggia get their man
The chase for Alessio Nepi ended with $1.2M changing hands and Perugia out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Market5 Jul 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Foggia is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
The deal with Cagliari is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
The terraces5 Jul 2027
Foggia spend $1.2M on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $1.2M for Alessio Nepi, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Independiente have kept their man, and Foggia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Foggia training over how hard people work
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Squad
Felice D'Amico in a row with a teammate
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Squad
Too much change too quickly at Foggia
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Market28 Jun 2027
Foggia say no — this time
The offer from Ferencvaros for Gianluca Saro was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
$1.2M settles it between the clubs for Alessio Nepi
Perugia have accepted the money. What Foggia do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Foggia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
Medical ends the Fali Candé deal
Everything was agreed with Sassuolo and then the doctor spoke. Foggia have walked away from a signing on the advice of somebody who never saw him play, which is how it is supposed to work.
Market28 Jun 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Foggia can pretend not to have heard.
Market28 Jun 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Foggia they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad28 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Foggia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Marco Bevilacqua is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Federico Romeo has improved at 25, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
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Market21 Jun 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.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Foggia may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
The paperwork begins on Fali Candé
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Foggia have done the hard part with Sassuolo, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Market21 Jun 2027
Eric Biasiol has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Foggia they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Tempers go at Foggia
Gianmarco Cangiano 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 targets21 Jun 2027
$14.0K was the most the club would pay and Gubbio 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.
Squad21 Jun 2027
At 24 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Como have kept their man, and Foggia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Gianmarco Todisco 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.
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Squad14 Jun 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Antonio Prisco
20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Foggia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market14 Jun 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Alcione Milano waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Foggia is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market14 Jun 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.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
Davide Petermann: 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.” Foggia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Shakhtar is saying, and nobody at Foggia is enjoying the guessing.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Words exchanged at Foggia
Gianmarco Cangiano 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 targets14 Jun 2027
Foggia have gone to Gubbio with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Words at Foggia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrea Gallo 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 dugout14 Jun 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Federico Zuccon, and the manager let it.
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Squad7 Jun 2027
29 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Foggia lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market7 Jun 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 Foggia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market7 Jun 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Michele Bigonzoni will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Foggia the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad7 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Foggia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
Foggia asked and Clermont Foot said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words at Foggia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrea Gallo 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.
Market7 Jun 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Foggia have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Andrea Gallo
“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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
In brief
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Transfer targets
A loan move for Kauã Elias is in the works
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The dugout
Federico Zuccon knocks on the manager's door
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Boardroom
Open for business: Foggia enter the window
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad31 May 2027
Antonio Prisco damages knee ligaments — 38 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 38 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.
Market31 May 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Federico Valietti will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Foggia the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad31 May 2027
A falling-out at Foggia
Giuseppe Panico and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout31 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vincenzo Garofalo, and the manager let it.
Squad31 May 2027
Words at Foggia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francesco Rizzo 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 dugout31 May 2027
Andrea Gallo 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 Foggia, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market31 May 2027
The name of Gianluca Saro keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Foggia say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout31 May 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad31 May 2027
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Foggia that is a harder question to answer.
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Upbeat
Squad24 May 2027
45 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Foggia lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market24 May 2027
Eric Biasiol has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Foggia they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad24 May 2027
Words exchanged at Foggia
Giuseppe Panico 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.
Squad24 May 2027
Andrea Gallo 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 dugout24 May 2027
“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 dugout24 May 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Christian Tommasini trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout24 May 2027
Christian Dimarco has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Foggia 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.
The dugout24 May 2027
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Foggia. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market24 May 2027
Cesena had somebody in the stand with a notebook, and he was not there for the pies. Watching is free; the next step is not.
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Market17 May 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.
Squad17 May 2027
Mario Ravasio pulls a muscle — 15 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 15 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Market17 May 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Foggia is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
The dugout17 May 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.
Squad17 May 2027
Words at Foggia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrea Gallo 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.
Squad17 May 2027
Tempers go at Foggia
Alessandro Minelli 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.
Squad17 May 2027
The division's best last weekend was a Foggia man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Ferdinando Del Sole was the best thing in any of them.
The dugout17 May 2027
Pierluca Luciani has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Foggia 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.
Market17 May 2027
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Foggia has been clear about where Federico Valietti stands, which is more than many ever get.
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Upbeat
Player ratings10 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 36. 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.
Squad10 May 2027
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Match8 May 2027
Whatever happens, Foggia do not lose
10 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Market10 May 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Foggia is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad10 May 2027
17 goals and a season average of 7.26. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad10 May 2027
A falling-out at Foggia
Gianmarco Cangiano and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings10 May 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.59, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match8 May 2027
Casarano made Foggia work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces10 May 2027
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
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Upbeat
Squad3 May 2027
27 goals and a season average of 7.53. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match1 May 2027
Still nobody has beaten Foggia
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Market3 May 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Foggia is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad3 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Foggia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match1 May 2027
Three points for Foggia, 2‑1 the final word against Trapani in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Marked 8.31 — 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.
Squad3 May 2027
Words at Foggia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrea Gallo 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 dugout3 May 2027
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Federico Zuccon will call it something else in private.
Market3 May 2027
“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.
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Steady
The dugout26 Apr 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Foggia may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match24 Apr 2027
Whatever happens, Foggia do not lose
8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Boardroom26 Apr 2027
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Market26 Apr 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Foggia is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Mario Ravasio is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.25 with 16 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Foggia
Gianmarco Cangiano 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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
A row about effort at Foggia
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andrea Gallo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Davide Petermann, and the manager let it.
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Upbeat
Match17 Apr 2027
6‑1, and Giuseppe Panico took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Foggia tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Squad19 Apr 2027
26 goals and a season average of 7.51. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 10.00, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.17, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match19 Apr 2027
Foggia are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 61 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Match17 Apr 2027
Whatever happens, Foggia do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Words exchanged at Foggia
Giuseppe Panico 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.
Match17 Apr 2027
Giuseppe Panico among the goals in a wild afternoon
7 goals in one match, Giuseppe Panico on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Foggia and Giugliano.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Upbeat
Squad12 Apr 2027
A season average of 7.45 with 24 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Market12 Apr 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Foggia is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad12 Apr 2027
A falling-out at Foggia
Giuseppe Panico and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match10 Apr 2027
Whatever happens, Foggia do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Match10 Apr 2027
Three points for Foggia, 1‑0 the final word against Cavese in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Words at Foggia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrea Gallo 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 ratings12 Apr 2027
Federico Romeo was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.17. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Giuseppe Panico was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.05. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Andrea Gallo
“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
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Giuseppe Panico
23 goals and a season average of 7.43 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Marco Oliva has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Market5 Apr 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Foggia they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad5 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Foggia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Apr 2027
A row about effort at Foggia
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andrea Gallo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.17, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Mario Ravasio named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Mario Ravasio is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout5 Apr 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.
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Steady
Squad29 Mar 2027
22 goals and a season average of 7.42. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Market29 Mar 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Foggia is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings29 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.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Marked 8.22 — 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 dugout29 Mar 2027
Hamza Haoudi 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.
Match27 Mar 2027
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Francesco Rizzo 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 dugout29 Mar 2027
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Market29 Mar 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Filippo Berra has his answer from Foggia; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Steady
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Foggia
Gianmarco Cangiano 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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
14 goals and a season average of 7.24. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Words at Foggia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrea Gallo 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 dugout22 Mar 2027
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Federico Zuccon will call it something else in private.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Nobody on the pitch touched Mario Ravasio
7.92, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Foggia had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad22 Mar 2027
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Foggia will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
“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.
Match20 Mar 2027
It needed Mario Ravasio to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Picerno, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Upbeat
Match13 Mar 2027
No mercy from Foggia
Altamura will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Foggia were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.02, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match15 Mar 2027
Foggia are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 52 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 29. 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
A season average of 7.41 with 21 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Market15 Mar 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Michele Bigonzoni will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Foggia the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad15 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Foggia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Ninety minutes of Mario Ravasio at his very best
Marked 9.12. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Foggia.
Match13 Mar 2027
2 goals inside twenty minutes with Giuseppe Panico in the middle of it, and Altamura unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.
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Steady
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 31. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.92, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Giuseppe Panico
19 goals and a season average of 7.36 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Market8 Mar 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Foggia they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Foggia
Gianmarco Cangiano and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match6 Mar 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Giuseppe Panico. 2‑0 against Cosenza, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑0, already talking about the next one.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Foggia told Enrico Oviszach something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
“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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Crisis
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.
Market1 Mar 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Foggia is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Foggia
Giuseppe Panico 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.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout1 Mar 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.
Match27 Feb 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Andrea Gallo 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 dugout1 Mar 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 Pietro Alberti left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
A promise honoured at Foggia
Something was said to Filippo Berra and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
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Uneasy
Squad22 Feb 2027
14 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Foggia lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad22 Feb 2027
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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
17 goals and a season average of 7.34. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Foggia
Giuseppe Panico 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 ratings22 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 22. 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.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
A performance of 8.01 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match20 Feb 2027
A 1‑1 draw with Benevento leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Pietro Alberti chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
“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
Squad15 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Andrea Smeraldi
22 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Foggia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Foggia may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market15 Feb 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Foggia they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Giuseppe Panico
16 goals and a season average of 7.32 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Foggia
Giuseppe Panico and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad15 Feb 2027
500 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.
Looking ahead15 Feb 2027
Top-of-the-table clash for Foggia
Benevento next, and the two sides the division is watching meet each other. Whoever wins will be told nothing is decided in the same breath as being congratulated.
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.
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Upbeat
Squad8 Feb 2027
29 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Foggia lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Federico Valietti has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Market8 Feb 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Federico Valietti will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Foggia the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
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.
Match6 Feb 2027
Three points for Foggia, 1‑0 the final word against Latina in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Looking ahead8 Feb 2027
The big one: Catania come into view
Two sides from the top of the table, one afternoon, and a month of talk decided in ninety minutes. Foggia will not use the word title this week and will not stop thinking it.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Foggia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrea Gallo 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Hamza Haoudi and Foggia agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Steady
Squad1 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Andrea Smeraldi
38 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Foggia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 35. 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Foggia people have started saying his name in the past tense.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Foggia may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Deadline passes with 0 signed and 0 gone
That is the business done at Foggia 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.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Viery is a medical away from Foggia
The deal with Fiorentina is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Market1 Feb 2027
Only the photograph left for Marco Oliva
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marco Oliva will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Foggia the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Foggia
Gianmarco Cangiano 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 targets1 Feb 2027
Foggia asked and Como 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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Upbeat
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 46. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Andrea Smeraldi
45 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Foggia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match25 Jan 2027
Foggia are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 41 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Orazio Pazienza has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Foggia
Gianmarco Cangiano 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 targets25 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Santos have kept their man, and Foggia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrea Gallo, and the manager let it.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Atalanta 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.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Sassuolo 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.
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Upbeat
Squad18 Jan 2027
16 goals and a season average of 7.38. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad18 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Foggia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match16 Jan 2027
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 7 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. 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.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
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.
Match16 Jan 2027
Audace Cerignola left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gianluca Saro, and the manager let it.
Squad18 Jan 2027
50 goals for this club, and somewhere in the stand there is a person who can still tell you where they were for most of them.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Foggia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrea Gallo 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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Triumph
Match9 Jan 2027
Foggia make it 7 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Foggia have 7 straight wins of it.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A season average of 7.36 with 15 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad11 Jan 2027
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad11 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Foggia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match9 Jan 2027
Foggia are at home on the road
4 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Patronato have kept their man, and Foggia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout11 Jan 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.
Match9 Jan 2027
Potenza made Foggia work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
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Upbeat
Market4 Jan 2027
Foggia say no — this time
The offer from Avellino for Giuseppe Panico was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Foggia had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.
Market4 Jan 2027
Marco Oliva has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Foggia they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Foggia
Giuseppe Panico 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 targets4 Jan 2027
A loan move for Joaquín Barolín is in the works
Foggia have made the call to Patronato. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
A loan move for Joel Roca is in the works
Foggia have made the call to Olympiacos. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Riccardo Brosco named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Riccardo Brosco is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Davide Petermann, and the manager let it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Davide Di Pasquale is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
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Triumph
Match26 Dec 2026
4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.13, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match26 Dec 2026
Foggia cannot stop winning
6 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Match28 Dec 2026
Foggia refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 37 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad28 Dec 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Giuseppe Panico
14 goals and a season average of 7.34 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Foggia
Giuseppe Panico 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Foggia
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andrea Gallo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Triumph
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 36. 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
Foggia make it 5 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Foggia have 5 straight wins of it.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Foggia
Mamadou Coulibaly and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match19 Dec 2026
Another one collected away from home
3 on the bounce on the road for Foggia. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
Match19 Dec 2026
Three points for Foggia, 1‑0 the final word against Trapani in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Foggia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrea Gallo 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 dugout21 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.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.81 on the card, and the Foggia support went home talking about one name.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.
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Upbeat
Match12 Dec 2026
Nobody wants to play Foggia right now
4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Foggia
Gianmarco Cangiano and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match12 Dec 2026
Casertana made Foggia work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Luca Nocerino commits to Foggia for another 4 years.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
A performance of 8.14 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Pietro Alberti on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Felice D'Amico, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Francesco Rizzo 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 Dec 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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 45. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match5 Dec 2026
Nobody wants to play Foggia right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Riccardo Brosco commits to Foggia for another 2 years.
Market7 Dec 2026
Marco Oliva has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Foggia they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Foggia
Gianmarco Cangiano 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
Giugliano made Foggia work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Foggia
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andrea Gallo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Ninety minutes of Federico Romeo at his very best
Marked 8.03. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Foggia.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrea Gallo, and the manager let it.
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Upbeat
Match30 Nov 2026
Foggia up to position 3
25 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Foggia
Gianmarco Cangiano 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Giuseppe Panico
13 goals and a season average of 7.35 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Foggia
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Giuseppe Panico was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match28 Nov 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Mario Ravasio’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Foggia.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.54 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.22, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
113% of the income goes out in wages at Foggia
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Foggia
Giuseppe Panico and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match21 Nov 2026
Sorrento made Foggia work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Foggia
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Enrico Oviszach was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout23 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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.82 on the card, and the Foggia support went home talking about one name.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Pietro Alberti, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Filippo Berra
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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Chances created: 9. Nothing on the scoresheet and everything in the match: the pass before the pass, over and over, until the defence stopped guessing right.
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Crisis
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 37. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad16 Nov 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 Foggia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match14 Nov 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Foggia
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andrea Gallo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout16 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
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 Pietro Alberti left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Andrea Gallo knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Andrea Gallo trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Mario Ravasio’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Foggia needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Market16 Nov 2026
Marco Oliva is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Foggia has been clear about where Marco Oliva stands, which is more than many ever get.
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Steady
Match4 Nov 2026
Foggia out of the cup
Fiorentina ended it 1‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Market9 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Foggia is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Foggia
Gianmarco Cangiano 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
12 goals and a season average of 7.32. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Foggia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giuseppe Panico 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 dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Gianluca Saro
“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
A performance of 8.10 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match7 Nov 2026
Late, late show earns Foggia a point
Minute 88, against Picerno, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
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Steady
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.31 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Foggia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giuseppe Panico 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Gianmarco Cangiano’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Foggia.
Squad2 Nov 2026
200 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Foggia
Davide Petermann 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 113% of everything Foggia 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Pietro Alberti on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout2 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The captaincy has been taken off Riccardo Brosco. Foggia will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
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Steady
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad26 Oct 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 Foggia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Andrea Gallo 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Enrico Oviszach, and the manager let it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Foggia
13 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Pietro Alberti chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Player of the week, judged against every other man in the division. A small award, and one most careers never collect.
Match24 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Cosenza will be the happier side with the point.
Looking ahead26 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Altamura in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Upbeat
Match17 Oct 2026
4‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad19 Oct 2026
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Foggia
Gianmarco Cangiano and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Giuseppe Panico was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.64. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Giuseppe Panico
11 goals and a season average of 7.31 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Match17 Oct 2026
Foggia settle it inside twenty minutes
2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Salernitana spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Pietro Alberti on a 4‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Steady
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A brace, and Giuseppe Panico takes the afternoon — 9.22
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Giuseppe Panico provided it, and the 9.22 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market12 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Marco Oliva
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marco Oliva will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Foggia the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match10 Oct 2026
3‑5 to Benevento, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Foggia
Gianmarco Cangiano 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
8 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Foggia and Benevento in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.78, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Market12 Oct 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Roberto Ventura 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Elia Grassi 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Pietro Alberti after 3‑5, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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Steady
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Riccardo Brosco and Foggia agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Foggia
Giuseppe Panico 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
144% of the income goes out in wages at Foggia
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Andrea Gallo 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 dugout5 Oct 2026
Andrea Gallo 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.
Squad5 Oct 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The dugout5 Oct 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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match23 Sep 2026
Cup progress for Foggia
A 2‑1 win over Ternana, 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
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 16 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match23 Sep 2026
Foggia win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 95th minute. Ternana will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Foggia
Giuseppe Panico and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Christian Dimarco was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.23. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 8.09 — 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
A point taken on 87 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Chances created: 12. Nothing on the scoresheet and everything in the match: the pass before the pass, over and over, until the defence stopped guessing right.
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Triumph
Squad21 Sep 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Foggia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match19 Sep 2026
4‑1, and Giuseppe Panico took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Foggia tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Squad21 Sep 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad21 Sep 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 Foggia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Giuseppe Panico was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.67. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 8.00 — 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
The manager makes an example of Filippo Berra
“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 dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Pietro Alberti kept it short after the 4‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
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Upbeat
Squad14 Sep 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Foggia will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match12 Sep 2026
5‑2, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Squad14 Sep 2026
4 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Marco Oliva has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Foggia they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match12 Sep 2026
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Foggia and Siracusa in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.82, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A performance of 9.32 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Market14 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ciro Castelli is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
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Market
Foggia promote Riccardo Piccini from within
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Squad
Words at Foggia training over how hard people work
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Foggia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market7 Sep 2026
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Riccardo Brosco reports back to Foggia with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Foggia close the window on a squad of their own making
12 in and 7 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Foggia had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Boca Juniors, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Foggia
Gianmarco Cangiano 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 targets7 Sep 2026
Door shut on Viery
Foggia asked and Fiorentina said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match5 Sep 2026
1‑2 to Audace Cerignola, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Gianluca Saro
“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.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Squad31 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 48 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market31 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Francesco Rizzo had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Lazio keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad31 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 Foggia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
Match29 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Giuseppe Panico’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Foggia.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Mario Ravasio at his very best
Marked 8.31. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Foggia.
In brief
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Squad
13 new faces, and Foggia are still learning each other
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
Somebody else is better right now than Filippo Berra
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Foggia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market24 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Potenza waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Foggia is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market24 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 Foggia can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
No thanks: Daniel Boloca rejects the move
Foggia had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Sassuolo, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Foggia
Gianmarco Cangiano 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
Foggia 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Andrea Gallo 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Everyone has stopped pretending: Potenza will make the call about Francesco Rizzo this week. Foggia have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Foggia 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.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 62 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Sassuolo, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Foggia
Giuseppe Panico 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 targets17 Aug 2026
Foggia 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Andrea Gallo 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Gianluca Saro’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Riccardo Brosco commits to Foggia for another 1 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Foggia
Giuseppe Panico and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Cremonese have kept their man, and Foggia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Domenico Rossi 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ignazio Lombardi 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Umberto Palumbo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Diego Zenoni 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Lazio: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Riccardo Brosco trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Giuseppe Panico commits to Foggia for another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Foggia
Riccardo Brosco 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Foggia
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Filippo Berra was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Giuseppe Panico’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Foggia
13 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 move for Ricard Artero is in the works
Foggia have made the call to Girona. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.