From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match13 Feb 2027
No end in sight to Frosinone's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Frosinone has to find a result from somewhere.
Market15 Feb 2027
Anthony Oyono 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 Frosinone can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout15 Feb 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 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Frosinone
Patrizio Masini 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Iván Cardozo gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Iván Cardozo has just signed for Frosinone, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Frosinone
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Florian Grillitsch was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
A performance of 8.08 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad15 Feb 2027
5 new faces, and Frosinone are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
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Uneasy
Market8 Feb 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.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 30. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match6 Feb 2027
7 matches without a win for Frosinone
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Frosinone are no longer polite ones.
The dugout8 Feb 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Ben Lhassine Koné reports back to Frosinone with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Market8 Feb 2027
Only the photograph left for Omar Fayed
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Omar Fayed will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Frosinone the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Patrizio Masini 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 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Tomáš Bobček 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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Crisis
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 Frosinone can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match30 Jan 2027
The wait goes on for Frosinone
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.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Frosinone close the window on a squad of their own making
2 in and 1 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.
Squad1 Feb 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 Frosinone this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Frosinone
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Florian Grillitsch was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets1 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.
Match30 Jan 2027
Avellino left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Patrizio Masini
“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
Player ratings25 Jan 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.
Match20 Jan 2027
The small margins put Frosinone out
Out, 0‑1 to Inter, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Market25 Jan 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Frosinone have lost him in all but the paperwork.
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 Frosinone can pretend not to have heard.
Match23 Jan 2027
The wait goes on for Frosinone
5 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Patrizio Masini and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Juan Albertinazzi arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Juan Albertinazzi has, at Frosinone, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Frosinone
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Florian Grillitsch was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match23 Jan 2027
A point taken on 95 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.
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Crisis
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market18 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Frosinone
Patrizio Masini 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 Jan 2027
Ben Lhassine Koné scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Bari, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Giorgi Kvernadze 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 dugout18 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Giacomo Calò, and the manager let it.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Mariano Moretti after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Frosinone are still strangers to each other
5 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.
Market18 Jan 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Romano Schmid signs something — a contract at Frosinone or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Steady
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 30. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market11 Jan 2027
Frosinone say no — this time
The offer from Barnsley for Giorgi Kvernadze 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 targets11 Jan 2027
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: CSKA Moscow keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Patrizio Masini 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Frosinone training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Florian Grillitsch 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.
Transfer targets11 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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lorenzo Palmisani, and the manager let it.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Ninety minutes of Romano Schmid at his very best
Marked 8.13. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Frosinone.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Frosinone are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
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Steady
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 37. 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.
Match2 Jan 2027
Chastening afternoon for Frosinone
A 1‑4 beating by Empoli was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Market4 Jan 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 Frosinone, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad4 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 Frosinone this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market4 Jan 2027
The phone has started ringing about Farès Ghedjemis again, and this time the name on the line is Palermo. Frosinone are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at Frosinone training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Florian Grillitsch 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 Jan 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Frosinone can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
The dugout4 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.
Match4 Jan 2027
The half-term report on Frosinone
Position 10, 25 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.
In brief
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Boardroom
Nobody left the Frosinone dressing room in a hurry
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Player ratings
Giorgi Kvernadze turns it into his own net
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 36. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Frosinone — 7.97
1 for Patrizio Masini, marked 7.97, 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Patrizio Masini and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match26 Dec 2026
Three points for Frosinone, 2‑0 the final word against Modena in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Giorgi Kvernadze, and the manager let it.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Mariano Moretti could afford to be generous.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
14 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 dugout28 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.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
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 Farès Ghedjemis is on it.
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Steady
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. 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
Romano Schmid wins it after the whistle should have gone
90 minutes played. Romano Schmid found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Padova went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Frosinone
Patrizio Masini 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Florian Grillitsch 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Romano Schmid’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Frosinone.
The terraces21 Dec 2026
The crowd has taken to Seydou Fini
At 20 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 ratings21 Dec 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.12, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tomás Jakos commits to Frosinone for another 3 years.
Squad21 Dec 2026
5 new faces, and Frosinone are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match9 Dec 2026
A 2‑1 win over Pescara, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. 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.
Match9 Dec 2026
The 85th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Antonio Raimondo decided nobody was going anywhere. Pescara had no time left to answer.
Squad14 Dec 2026
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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Patrizio Masini 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Florian Grillitsch 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 terraces14 Dec 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Antonio Raimondo has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Ninety minutes of Farès Ghedjemis at his very best
Marked 8.01. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Frosinone.
Match12 Dec 2026
Late, late show earns Frosinone a point
Minute 93, against Reggiana, 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Matteo Pisseri: 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.” Frosinone have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match5 Dec 2026
4 matches without a win for Frosinone
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Frosinone are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Dec 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 Frosinone this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match5 Dec 2026
Daniel Bîrligea scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Spezia, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
The dugout7 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Frosinone
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tomáš Bobček was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Cristian De Angelis
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Cristian De Angelis has come out of that comparison in the side, and Frosinone have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 39. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Patrizio Masini and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Frosinone training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Florian Grillitsch 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
50 goals in these colours now, every one of them somebody’s memory. There is a supporter in the stand who can tell you where he was for most of them.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.07, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Luciano Pérez and Frosinone agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ben Lhassine Koné, and the manager let it.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
A promise honoured at Frosinone
Something was said to Francesco Gelli and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Match28 Nov 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Frosinone
Patrizio Masini 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 ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Frosinone
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Florian Grillitsch 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
0‑1 to Mantova, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Boardroom23 Nov 2026
Nobody left the Frosinone 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.
The dugout23 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 Mariano Moretti left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Johann Laureiro and Frosinone agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad23 Nov 2026
6 new faces, and Frosinone are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 40. 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
Patrizio Masini 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Frosinone
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alessio Zerbin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Emir Faccioli
“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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Lucas Melgarejo and Frosinone agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout16 Nov 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Antonio Raimondo dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Market16 Nov 2026
Frosinone bring in an old head
Johann Laureiro is 33 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.
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Triumph
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 54. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match4 Nov 2026
Frosinone through in the cup
A 1‑0 win over Casertana, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match4 Nov 2026
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Frosinone scored in the 92th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Match7 Nov 2026
Frosinone cannot stop winning
3 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.
Squad9 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 Frosinone this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match7 Nov 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Frosinone and Carrarese, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Match7 Nov 2026
Carrarese made Frosinone work for it, but the scoreboard read 4‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Frosinone training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Florian Grillitsch 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 terraces9 Nov 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Antonio Raimondo has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. 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 ratings2 Nov 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.84, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Patrizio Masini and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Florian Grillitsch 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
A 2‑1 win over Cesena, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
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
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Florian Grillitsch is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
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.” Mariano Moretti on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Giorgi Kvernadze
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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 44. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Frosinone
Patrizio Masini 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Frosinone training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tomáš Bobček 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Frosinone
17 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
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Mariano Moretti after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout26 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Point won or two lost for Frosinone?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Juve Stabia? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Kevin Akpoguma 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 Kevin Akpoguma trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Looking ahead26 Oct 2026
Cesena next, and one man in the Frosinone dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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Crisis
Squad19 Oct 2026
Patrizio Masini 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 ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Frosinone training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Florian Grillitsch 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Frosinone against Monza
1‑2 to Monza, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Boardroom19 Oct 2026
Nobody left the Frosinone 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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gabriele Calvani, and the manager let it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Frosinone will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Market19 Oct 2026
The name of Florian Grillitsch keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Frosinone say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 39. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad12 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 Frosinone this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Frosinone
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Florian Grillitsch was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match10 Oct 2026
Three points for Frosinone, 1‑0 the final word against Pescara in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Florian Grillitsch was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.26. 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Nahuel Cisneros and Frosinone agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gabriele Bracaglia, and the manager let it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Mariano Moretti could afford to be generous.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Frosinone take on the side everybody is chasing
Monza arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.
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Uneasy
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Patrizio Masini and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match3 Oct 2026
It had gone 5 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Match3 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Romano Schmid. 1‑0 against Sampdoria, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Frosinone training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tomáš Bobček 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 ratings5 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Romano Schmid at his very best
Marked 8.05. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Frosinone.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 90% of everything Frosinone 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 dugout5 Oct 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Mariano Moretti on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Uneasy
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 54. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match26 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Frosinone
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Frosinone are no longer polite ones.
Squad28 Sep 2026
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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.82 for the rest of it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Frosinone
Patrizio Masini 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 Sep 2026
Florian Grillitsch 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Level with 90 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Frosinone had all but put away. Venezia will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
Squad28 Sep 2026
16 new faces, and Frosinone are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout28 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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Crisis
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 45. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match19 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Frosinone
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Frosinone are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Alessio Zerbin 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
4 matches without a goal for Frosinone
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Frosinone
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Florian Grillitsch was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match19 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout21 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Kevin Akpoguma dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
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Uneasy
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 46. 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.
Squad14 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 Frosinone this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match12 Sep 2026
Frosinone cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tomáš Bobček 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 Sep 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout14 Sep 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Mariano Moretti was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Frosinone dressing room was either.
Squad14 Sep 2026
No place for Oscar Marchant in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Frosinone are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Südtirol will be the happier side with the point.
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Uneasy
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Frosinone close the window on a squad of their own making
6 in and 4 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
Cremonese wanted more than $680.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Alessio Zerbin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Florian Grillitsch 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.52 on the card, and the Frosinone support went home talking about one name.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Valentín Aguiñagalde is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. 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 dugout7 Sep 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.
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Crisis
Match29 Aug 2026
0‑3 to Catanzaro, 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Frosinone offered $870.0K; Monza said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Frosinone
Alessio Zerbin 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Florian Grillitsch 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 ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
14 new faces, and Frosinone are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
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 0‑3 defeat, delivered by Mariano Moretti to a room that had heard them before.
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Steady
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
$870.0K on the table at Monza. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Alessio Zerbin 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.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
3 academy graduates step up at Frosinone
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Frosinone asked and Pisa said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market24 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Alberto Salvatore has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market24 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Andrea Gastaldello has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market24 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Luca Dalla Valle 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tomáš Bobček 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.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Frosinone turn down the training-ground plan
It is the quietest way a club tells you what its ambitions are. The money was asked for, the money was refused, and the people who work there every day now know exactly where they stand.
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Steady
Squad17 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 Frosinone this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Frosinone training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Florian Grillitsch 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 Aug 2026
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
At 37, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A wage question at Frosinone
Florian Grillitsch has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Frosinone say no — this time
The offer from Cremonese for Lorenzo Palmisani 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alessio Zerbin and Frosinone agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Frosinone
Patrizio Masini 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Frosinone training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alessio Zerbin 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 dugout10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lorenzo Palmisani, and the manager let it.
Market10 Aug 2026
36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Romano Schmid and Frosinone agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Alessio Zerbin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Giorgi Kvernadze 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 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Romano Schmid's contract
49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Frosinone
12 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Venezia: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.