From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Feb 2028
A season average of 7.48 with 29 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad14 Feb 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.
Market14 Feb 2028
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.
Squad14 Feb 2028
147 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match12 Feb 2028
Catania made Foggia work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad14 Feb 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” McCartney Woodhouse commits to Foggia for another 4 years.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Feb 2028
A season average of 7.46 with 28 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Market7 Feb 2028
“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.
Squad7 Feb 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.
Squad7 Feb 2028
14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match5 Feb 2028
Three points for Foggia, 1-0 the final word against Latina in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad7 Feb 2028
“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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Uneasy
Squad31 Jan 2028
A season average of 7.44 with 27 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Match29 Jan 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.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Mario Paura 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.
Match29 Jan 2028
It finished 3-3, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Market31 Jan 2028
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Foggia will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Maxime Giron 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad24 Jan 2028
A season average of 7.41 with 25 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Market24 Jan 2028
Luca Nocerino 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.
Match22 Jan 2028
6 matches without a win for Foggia
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Foggia are no longer polite ones.
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Uneasy
Market17 Jan 2028
“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 Jan 2028
23 goals and a season average of 7.39. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match15 Jan 2028
5 matches without a win for Foggia
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Foggia are no longer polite ones.
Market17 Jan 2028
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.
Squad17 Jan 2028
Ionut Iancu 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.
Match15 Jan 2028
2-2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Market17 Jan 2028
Francesco Rizzo 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 Francesco Rizzo stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad17 Jan 2028
Felice D'Amico 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.
Squad17 Jan 2028
A new face in his position, and Riccardo Brosco suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Foggia have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
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Uneasy
Squad10 Jan 2028
There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match8 Jan 2028
4 matches without a win for Foggia
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Foggia are no longer polite ones.
Squad10 Jan 2028
42 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market10 Jan 2028
Benevento pay $290.0K, 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.
Squad10 Jan 2028
“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.
Match8 Jan 2028
A 1-1 draw with Potenza leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Jan 2028
Eric Biasiol: 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
The manager makes an example of Mario Paura
“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.
Squad3 Jan 2028
“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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad27 Dec 2027
A season average of 7.38 with 21 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Zhivodar Zhekov: 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.
Match25 Dec 2027
Casarano left with the points after a 1-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Uneasy
Market20 Dec 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.
Squad20 Dec 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.
Match18 Dec 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad13 Dec 2027
A season average of 7.39 with 20 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad13 Dec 2027
The manager makes an example of Maxime Giron
“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.
Match11 Dec 2027
A 3-3 draw with Casertana leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Steady
Squad6 Dec 2027
Tiago Machado: 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.
Squad6 Dec 2027
A season average of 7.30 with 18 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Match4 Dec 2027
Three points for Foggia, 1-0 the final word against Giugliano in a contest settled by the finer margins.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad29 Nov 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.
Squad29 Nov 2027
A season average of 7.26 with 17 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Match27 Nov 2027
Cavese left with the points after a 1-3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market22 Nov 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.
Squad22 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.
Squad22 Nov 2027
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Pietro Leonardelli knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Match20 Nov 2027
A 1-1 draw with Sorrento leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Market22 Nov 2027
The name of Davide Petermann keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Foggia say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad22 Nov 2027
The wait is over, and the relief was visible from the back of the stand. 2 for the season, and the next one always comes easier.
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Crisis
Squad15 Nov 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.
Squad15 Nov 2027
A season average of 7.29 with 16 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad15 Nov 2027
The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Ionut Iancu, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match3 Nov 2027
Foggia bow out of the cup
Lazio go through and Foggia go home, 1-3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
The terraces8 Nov 2027
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 6 of the 30 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Squad8 Nov 2027
A season average of 7.25 with 15 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Match6 Nov 2027
Picerno made Foggia work for it, but the scoreboard read 3-2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad8 Nov 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Luca Nocerino and Foggia agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Nov 2027
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Sören Dutoit knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Squad8 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.
Boardroom8 Nov 2027
Foggia release $882.7K for the manager
The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
Market8 Nov 2027
The name of Maxime Giron keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Foggia say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Squad1 Nov 2027
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market1 Nov 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad1 Nov 2027
14 goals and a season average of 7.20. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad25 Oct 2027
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad25 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Mario Paura
“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.
Match23 Oct 2027
Cosenza left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Uneasy
Squad18 Oct 2027
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Squad18 Oct 2027
45 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match16 Oct 2027
Three points for Foggia, 3-1 the final word against Salernitana in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad18 Oct 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marco Bevilacqua commits to Foggia for another 4 years.
Squad18 Oct 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.
Market18 Oct 2027
Experience through the door at Foggia
Ionut Iancu arrives at 36 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
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Crisis
Match9 Oct 2027
Chastening afternoon for Foggia
A 1-4 beating by Benevento was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad11 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.
Match9 Oct 2027
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.
Squad11 Oct 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.
Boardroom11 Oct 2027
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Squad11 Oct 2027
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
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Steady
Squad4 Oct 2027
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Felice D'Amico: 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.
Match2 Oct 2027
No end in sight to Foggia's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Foggia has to find a result from somewhere.
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Steady
Squad27 Sep 2027
Sören Dutoit is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Sören Dutoit: 3 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match22 Sep 2027
Foggia march on in the cup
Trento are out and Foggia go through, 0-0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Filippo Calvo: 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.
Squad27 Sep 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.
Match25 Sep 2027
Honours even between Foggia and Latina
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Every debut is a small story about the future: Gianpaolo Ragone, 21 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.
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Upbeat
Match18 Sep 2027
A hiding for Foggia
Beaten 0-3 by Crotone, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
The terraces20 Sep 2027
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 6 of the 30 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Squad20 Sep 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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Upbeat
Match11 Sep 2027
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3-0 against Siracusa, and it could have been more.
Squad13 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.
Match11 Sep 2027
Foggia make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Foggia have 4 straight wins of it.
Market13 Sep 2027
The deal that would have taken Tiago Machado to Trapani has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Foggia with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad13 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Mario Paura
“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.
Market13 Sep 2027
The name of Maxime Giron keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Foggia say nothing, which says plenty.
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Upbeat
Squad6 Sep 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match4 Sep 2027
Foggia make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Foggia have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Riccardo Brosco commits to Foggia for another 2 years.
Match4 Sep 2027
Three points for Foggia, 3-2 the final word against Audace Cerignola in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad6 Sep 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Steady
Squad30 Aug 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market30 Aug 2027
Sören Dutoit 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.
Market30 Aug 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad30 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.
Match28 Aug 2027
Three points for Foggia, 1-0 the final word against Potenza in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad30 Aug 2027
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Foggia have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
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Steady
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.
Market23 Aug 2027
The shirt still fits. Leandro D'Angelo is back at Foggia, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market23 Aug 2027
The shirt still fits. Elia Di Stefano is back at Foggia, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Foggia
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad16 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.
Market16 Aug 2027
The name of Maxime Giron keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Foggia say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Market9 Aug 2027
Foggia have made Sören Dutoit available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Marco Bevilacqua asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market9 Aug 2027
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Francesco Andrea Di Vito leaves Foggia the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
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Uneasy
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Squad2 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Sören Dutoit
“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.
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
Foggia pull $176.1K back off the table
The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Jul 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.
Market26 Jul 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Luca Nocerino asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
Pressure builds in the Foggia boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad19 Jul 2027
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad19 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Tiago Machado
“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
Uneasy
Market12 Jul 2027
Filippo Calvo is 19, and Foggia have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Squad12 Jul 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.
Squad12 Jul 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Squad5 Jul 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.
Market5 Jul 2027
He is 20, and nobody at Foggia signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market5 Jul 2027
He is 20, and nobody at Foggia signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Foggia pull $176.1K back off the table
The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Till Winkelmann asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad5 Jul 2027
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Riccardo Brosco keeps the shirt for now, at Foggia's convenience rather than his own.
Market5 Jul 2027
The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Mario Paura arrives at Foggia with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Jun 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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gianpaolo Ragone commits to Foggia for another 3 years.
Squad28 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Marco Oliva
“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
Uneasy
Boardroom21 Jun 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Foggia
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market21 Jun 2027
Christian Tommasini has left for Pisa in a $1.3M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad21 Jun 2027
The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Nicolás Muñoz, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad21 Jun 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Gianpaolo Ragone and Foggia agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad21 Jun 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.
Market21 Jun 2027
The name of Maxime Giron keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Foggia say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Market14 Jun 2027
Michael Liguori has left for Torino in a $1.2M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Market14 Jun 2027
Pisa are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Foggia will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Market14 Jun 2027
Filippo Perucchini has left for Arzignano in a $14.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad14 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Francesco Rizzo
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Marco Bevilacqua asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad14 Jun 2027
The move was somebody else's story. What it left behind was a dressing-room stall nobody has taken and a player who keeps looking at it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market7 Jun 2027
Torino are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Foggia will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad7 Jun 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.
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
Foggia pull $176.1K back off the table
The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
Market7 Jun 2027
6 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
The terraces7 Jun 2027
The stands have heard the Michael Liguori talk too
What was a back-page story is now a matter for the terraces, and the terraces do not do nuance. Foggia would like it dealt with before it becomes the only question anybody asks.
Squad7 Jun 2027
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market31 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.
Squad31 May 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.
Market31 May 2027
He is 20, and nobody at Foggia signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom24 May 2027
Pressure builds in the Foggia boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad24 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.
Market24 May 2027
The name of Maxime Giron keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Foggia say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad17 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.
Market17 May 2027
The name of Christian Tommasini keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Foggia say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad17 May 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad10 May 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad10 May 2027
The match ball belongs to Christian Tommasini, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Squad10 May 2027
Tiago Machado: 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market3 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.
Match1 May 2027
No end in sight to Foggia's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Foggia has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad3 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.
Match1 May 2027
Trapani left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Boardroom3 May 2027
$176.1K taken back off the Foggia table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
Market3 May 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom26 Apr 2027
Pressure builds in the Foggia boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Match24 Apr 2027
9 unbeaten for Foggia
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Foggia did not have in the autumn.
Squad26 Apr 2027
7 goals and a season average of 7.39. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad26 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.
Match24 Apr 2027
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Casertana defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Market26 Apr 2027
The name of Maxime Giron keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Foggia say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Apr 2027
Luca Nocerino: 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.
Match17 Apr 2027
8 unbeaten for Foggia
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Foggia did not have in the autumn.
Squad19 Apr 2027
The medical room confirms 27 days on the sidelines for Francesco De Lucia, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad19 Apr 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.
Match17 Apr 2027
A 1-1 draw with Giugliano leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Market19 Apr 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Apr 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad12 Apr 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.
Match10 Apr 2027
7 unbeaten for Foggia
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Foggia did not have in the autumn.
Squad12 Apr 2027
A season average of 7.42 with 6 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad12 Apr 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Nasser Bouyahmed and Foggia agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match10 Apr 2027
Foggia and Cavese cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Cavese came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
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Upbeat
Market5 Apr 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.
Match3 Apr 2027
6 unbeaten for Foggia
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Foggia did not have in the autumn.
Match3 Apr 2027
Sorrento made Foggia work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad5 Apr 2027
The award goes to Christian Dimarco, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.
Squad5 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Tiago Machado
“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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
The captaincy has been taken off Vincenzo Garofalo. Foggia will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
Foggia pull $176.1K back off the table
The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
Squad5 Apr 2027
It is a strip of cloth and it decides nothing on a Saturday. It still tells the dressing room exactly whose opinion the manager values, which is the whole point of it.
Market5 Apr 2027
The name of Davide Petermann keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Foggia say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom29 Mar 2027
Pressure builds in the Foggia boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad29 Mar 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.
Squad29 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 Mar 2027
Monopoli made Foggia work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad29 Mar 2027
A season average of 7.37 with 7 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Kevin Freiberger asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad22 Mar 2027
The medical room confirms 57 days on the sidelines for Francesco De Lucia, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad22 Mar 2027
6 goals and a season average of 7.32. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Boardroom22 Mar 2027
Wages eat 94% 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad15 Mar 2027
A season average of 7.36 with 6 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad15 Mar 2027
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Kevin Freiberger will call it something else in private.
Match13 Mar 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.
Squad15 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.
Market15 Mar 2027
The name of Michael Liguori keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Foggia say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad15 Mar 2027
7.28 across ninety minutes and a place in the division's team of the week. He was the best player on that pitch and everybody there knew it.
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Uneasy
Market8 Mar 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.
Squad8 Mar 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kevin Freiberger and Foggia agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Sören Dutoit
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match6 Mar 2027
Three points for Foggia, 1-0 the final word against Cosenza in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
Foggia pull $176.1K back off the table
The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
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.
Boardroom1 Mar 2027
Pressure builds in the Foggia boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Match27 Feb 2027
5 matches without a win for Foggia
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Foggia are no longer polite ones.
Squad1 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
The medical room confirms 22 days on the sidelines for Andrea Lannunziata, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad1 Mar 2027
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Match27 Feb 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
A season average of 7.22 with 4 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Market1 Mar 2027
The Maxime Giron talk will not go away
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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market22 Feb 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.
Match20 Feb 2027
4 matches without a win for Foggia
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Foggia are no longer polite ones.
Match20 Feb 2027
1-2 to Benevento, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad22 Feb 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.
Boardroom22 Feb 2027
109% 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
5 goals and a season average of 7.27. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
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Crisis
Match13 Feb 2027
Beaten 1-3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad15 Feb 2027
The medical room confirms 26 days on the sidelines for Antonio De Marco, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad15 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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Uneasy
Market8 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad8 Feb 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
The Trapani deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Filippo Perucchini reports back to Foggia with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market1 Feb 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
The name of Christian Tommasini has come up in conversations Foggia were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad1 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.
Match30 Jan 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Foggia will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Market1 Feb 2027
The Maxime Giron talk will not go away
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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market25 Jan 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.
Squad25 Jan 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.
Match23 Jan 2027
Siracusa made Foggia work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
Wages eat 122% 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
5 goals and a season average of 7.23. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad25 Jan 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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Upbeat
Market18 Jan 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad18 Jan 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 Jan 2027
Sören Dutoit 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.
Match16 Jan 2027
Audace Cerignola made Foggia work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” McCartney Woodhouse commits to Foggia for another 4 years.
Squad18 Jan 2027
The medical room confirms 60 days on the sidelines for Antonio De Marco, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
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Uneasy
Match9 Jan 2027
Potenza left with the points after a 1-3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad11 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.
Market11 Jan 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tiago Machado 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Foggia have made Filippo Perucchini available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
The terraces11 Jan 2027
The press have found their man in Federico Romeo
Column inches are not points, but a footballer whose name keeps appearing for the right reasons is a footballer whose price has just gone up.
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Uneasy
Market4 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad4 Jan 2027
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.
Squad4 Jan 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
The Maxime Giron talk will not go away
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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
It is a strip of cloth and it decides nothing on a Saturday. It still tells the dressing room exactly whose opinion the manager values, which is the whole point of it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Tiago Machado asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market28 Dec 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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
191% 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.
Match26 Dec 2026
Three points for Foggia, 2-0 the final word against Casarano in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad28 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Federico Magro 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
The wait is over, and the relief was visible from the back of the stand. 3 for the season, and the next one always comes easier.
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Crisis
Match19 Dec 2026
A bad afternoon for Foggia against Trapani
0-2 to Trapani, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad21 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Kevin Freiberger asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Steady
Market14 Dec 2026
Eric Biasiol 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
A 2-1 win over Casertana, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad14 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Luca Nocerino
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad14 Dec 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Foggia have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Federico Romeo unhappy with how he is being used
Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Federico Romeo has let it be known that he does not like the way Foggia are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“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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Crisis
Market7 Dec 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Riccardo Brosco commits to Foggia for another 2 years.
Match5 Dec 2026
Giugliano left with the points after a 1-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad7 Dec 2026
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.
Market7 Dec 2026
The name of Christian Tommasini keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Foggia say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market30 Nov 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
233% 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Sören Dutoit
“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.
Match28 Nov 2026
Cavese made Foggia work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad30 Nov 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Felice D'Amico asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match21 Nov 2026
11 matches without a win for Foggia
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Foggia are no longer polite ones.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match14 Nov 2026
10 matches without a win for Foggia
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Foggia are no longer polite ones.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match14 Nov 2026
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match7 Nov 2026
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.
Match7 Nov 2026
0-4 to Picerno, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Market9 Nov 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Boardroom9 Nov 2026
Nobody left the Foggia dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Squad9 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market2 Nov 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
233% 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.
Squad2 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
“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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match24 Oct 2026
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Cosenza left with the points after a 1-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match17 Oct 2026
6 matches without a win for Foggia
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Foggia are no longer polite ones.
Match17 Oct 2026
1-2 to Salernitana, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Sören Dutoit
“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
Uneasy
Match10 Oct 2026
5 matches without a win for Foggia
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Foggia are no longer polite ones.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match10 Oct 2026
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Market12 Oct 2026
The name of Christian Tommasini keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Foggia say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Felice D'Amico 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Foggia have made Eric Biasiol available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match3 Oct 2026
4 matches without a win for Foggia
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Foggia are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 399% 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match3 Oct 2026
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad5 Oct 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Foggia have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
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Uneasy
Match23 Sep 2026
Foggia out of the cup
Ternana ended it 0-2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Market28 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“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
Match12 Sep 2026
Siracusa made Foggia work for it, but the scoreboard read 3-2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Sören Dutoit asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Market14 Sep 2026
The name of Christian Tommasini keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Foggia say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
Eric Biasiol 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
392% 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
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.
Squad31 Aug 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
37 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match29 Aug 2026
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Michael Liguori has come up in conversations Foggia were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market24 Aug 2026
Tommaso Lucchesi is 16, and Foggia have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Market24 Aug 2026
He is 16, and nobody at Foggia signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Foggia bring in an old head
Sören Dutoit is 35 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of Christian Tommasini keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Foggia say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market10 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad10 Aug 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The medical room confirms 50 days on the sidelines for Federico Valietti, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad10 Aug 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Michael Liguori asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Steady
Market3 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Maxime Giron and Foggia agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Maxime Giron's contract
36 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.