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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Frosinone will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Frosinone may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad2 Nov 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Lorenzo Palmisani 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
191% of the income goes out in wages at Frosinone
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.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Dolomiti Bellunesi to sit and watch. I want to come back to Frosinone and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Frosinone will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A defender's afternoon for Giacomo Calò
Defensive actions: 27. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
26 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Squad26 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Frosinone this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The terraces26 Oct 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
A 1‑0 win over Juve Stabia, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Antonio Raimondo was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.15. 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Jérémy Oyono 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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Uneasy
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
28 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
25 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Gioele Zacchi is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market19 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Frosinone is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Giacomo Calò in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Frosinone this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Sergio Kalaj has improved at 26, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Frosinone training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Farès Ghedjemis 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 ratings19 Oct 2026
The afternoon belonged to Giacomo Calò
7.78, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Frosinone had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
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Crisis
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Frosinone may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Gabriele Calvani is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Riccardo Marchizza 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. 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
The manager makes an example of Massimo Zilli
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Lorenzo Palmisani is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad5 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
334% of the income goes out in wages at Frosinone
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.
Loan watch5 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Dolomiti Bellunesi to sit and watch. I want to come back to Frosinone and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.88 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Antonio Fiori 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Anthony Oyono
“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 Oct 2026
Words at Frosinone training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ben Lhassine Koné 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
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.15, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Antonio Raimondo is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Riccardo Marchizza 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 ratings28 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.16, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 9.13 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match26 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Ben Lhassine Koné. 2‑1 against Venezia, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Farès Ghedjemis 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 terraces28 Sep 2026
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
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Crisis
Market21 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Frosinone is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Frosinone this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Matteo Cichella is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match19 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Jérémy Oyono 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.
Squad21 Sep 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.
Market21 Sep 2026
At 37, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
8 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.
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Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Antonio Raimondo will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Frosinone escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A brace, and Antonio Raimondo takes the afternoon — 8.05
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Antonio Raimondo provided it, and the 8.05 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Kevin Barcella at 20 — 8.55
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Kevin Barcella did not need any: 8.55, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Gioele Zacchi is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
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
Beaten 3‑4, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ilario Monterisi, and the manager let it.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Kevin Barcella 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Ben Lhassine Koné 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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Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
The fee is $1.8M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Sassuolo drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Lorenzo Palmisani is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Francesco Gelli 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
So close: Eldin Lolić’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Cagliari moved on, Eldin Lolić reports back to Frosinone, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Wages eat 242% 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 terraces7 Sep 2026
At 23 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.
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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Giorgi Kvernadze was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.38. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Triumph
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.73 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 24, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Giacomo Calò 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 ratings31 Aug 2026
21 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 terraces31 Aug 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Antonio Raimondo. 2‑0 against Catanzaro, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Market31 Aug 2026
The name of Kevin Barcella has come up in conversations Frosinone were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
Joan Sastre gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Joan Sastre has just signed for Frosinone, and for once the answer mattered.
Market24 Aug 2026
Sergio Kalaj 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Frosinone did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad24 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.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market24 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Roberto Caruso 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.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
Frosinone say no — this time
The offer from Benevento for Kevin Barcella 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Riccardo Marchizza was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Farès Ghedjemis 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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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
The chase for Arvid Brorsson ended with $1.2M changing hands and Monza out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Giorgi Kvernadze and Frosinone agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Riccardo Marchizza 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market10 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Benevento have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Kevin Barcella. The answer from Frosinone has not changed — yet.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Riccardo Marchizza and Frosinone agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Lorenzo Gori has come up in conversations Frosinone were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Frosinone training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ben Lhassine Koné 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Frosinone, another week without a signature from Edoardo Masciangelo.