From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
There were 11 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.
Match4 Nov 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Sascha Britschgi obliged against Altamura. 2‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Genoa.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Joi Nuredini breaks a bone — 114 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 114 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match7 Nov 2026
Nowhere to hide for Genoa
0‑3 against AC Milan, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Sascha Britschgi, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 9.20
A mark of 9.20 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Age has not caught Junior Messias yet — 8.25
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.25 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market9 Nov 2026
Morten Frendrup wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Genoa hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Genoa
Morten Frendrup 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 ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Crisis
Squad2 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Joi Nuredini out for 122 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Genoa will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market2 Nov 2026
Justin Bijlow wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Genoa hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Match31 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Genoa's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Genoa has to find a result from somewhere.
Match31 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Genoa against Juventus
3‑4 to Juventus, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Match31 Oct 2026
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Genoa and Juventus in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Genoa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lorenzo Colombo is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match31 Oct 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Genoa
4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Leo Østigård 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.
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Crisis
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Genoa
Morten Frendrup 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.
Market26 Oct 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Match24 Oct 2026
Leo Østigård scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Lecce, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Leo Østigård was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.32. 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 ratings26 Oct 2026
Vitinha was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.00. 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 ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
Doors closed at Genoa
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Patrizio Masini 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.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Genoa, and 3 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
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Steady
Match17 Oct 2026
Parma punish Genoa for switching off
2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Lorenzo Colombo will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Genoa escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Tommaso Baldanzi is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad19 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 Genoa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Genoa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lorenzo Colombo 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
Maxwel Cornet was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.72. 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 ratings19 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.34 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Vitinha runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match17 Oct 2026
It needed Lorenzo Colombo to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Parma, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Crisis
Squad12 Oct 2026
Clarence Corallo: 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.” Genoa have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Vitinha
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Genoa
Morten Frendrup was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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
Lorenzo Colombo 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 ratings12 Oct 2026
Benjamín Domínguez was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.89. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Benjamín Domínguez 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.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Genoa, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
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Steady
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A defender's afternoon for Leo Østigård
Defensive actions: 44. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Match3 Oct 2026
3‑0, and Alex Amorim took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Genoa tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
32 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 ratings5 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.53, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad5 Oct 2026
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
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 Genoa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Tommaso Baldanzi at his very best
Marked 9.27. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Genoa.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
213% of the income goes out in wages at Genoa
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 watch every Genoa game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Padova runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
In brief
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The terraces
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Squad
Words at Genoa training over how hard people work
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Squad
Alan Matturro gets it from the manager
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Genoa
Morten Frendrup 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Lorenzo Colombo 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.
Market28 Sep 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.45, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Loan watch28 Sep 2026
“I watch every Genoa game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Sorrento runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Alex Amorim
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
There was no pressure on him and nowhere he had to be. Genoa lost a goal to a decision that took half a second and will be discussed all week.
Match26 Sep 2026
A 1‑1 draw with AS Roma leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
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.
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 Genoa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Genoa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lorenzo Colombo 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Lorenzo Colombo
“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 terraces21 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 8.49 — 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Genoa and Bologna take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Shots: 10, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
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Upbeat
Match12 Sep 2026
The 86th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Junior Messias decided nobody was going anywhere. Como had no time left to answer.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Age has not caught Junior Messias yet — 9.21
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 9.21 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Adam Žulevič is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match12 Sep 2026
It finished 3‑2, and it was Junior Messias’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Genoa.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Justin Bijlow
“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 terraces14 Sep 2026
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 8.49 — 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Patrizio Masini 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Alan Matturro 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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Crisis
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A first appearance Suhayb Al Kharusi will want to forget — 5.72
Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.72, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Genoa heard it as anything else.
Squad7 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 Genoa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Genoa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lorenzo Colombo 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
193% of the income goes out in wages at Genoa
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.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Benjamín Domínguez 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 ratings7 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.57 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Genoa
Morten Frendrup 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Lorenzo Colombo 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
Ninety minutes of Morten Frendrup at his very best
Marked 9.05. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Genoa.
Market31 Aug 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Player ratings31 Aug 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Genoa and Inter take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad31 Aug 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Genoa have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Stefano Sabelli 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Shots: 7, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
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Triumph
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.21 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market24 Aug 2026
Crotone come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Genoa 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 Genoa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Genoa
1 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Lazio made Genoa work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Market24 Aug 2026
One of our own: Sandro Pavone joins the Genoa first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sandro Pavone is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Genoa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patrizio Masini 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.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Genoa are making the ground bigger
Work is signed off on a capacity of 43250. It is the sort of decision a club is judged on twenty years later, by people who were not there when it was taken.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Genoa are $4.5M in the red
The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.
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Steady
Market17 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Genoa
Morten Frendrup 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
Lorenzo Colombo falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market17 Aug 2026
Sascha Britschgi is 19, and Genoa 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Genoa have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market17 Aug 2026
Trapani are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Genoa will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
The fee is $9.1M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Bologna drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Market10 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done: Benjamín Domínguez joins from Bologna in a deal worth $9.1M. Now comes the harder part.
Market10 Aug 2026
Morten Frendrup wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Genoa hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Morten Frendrup and Genoa agree another 5 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Genoa
Morten Frendrup was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Nicolò Casale from Bologna for $9.1M, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
Justin Bijlow wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Genoa hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Justin Bijlow commits to Genoa for another 4 years.
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 Genoa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Franz-Ethan Meichtry has come up in conversations Genoa were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market3 Aug 2026
Genoa may not be able to give Alan Matturro what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Alan Matturro wants continental football; whether Genoa can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Genoa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patrizio Masini 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.