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Crisis
Match19 Dec 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad21 Dec 2026
100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Gubbio
Orazio Pazienza and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout21 Dec 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 Dec 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Gubbio lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.
Looking ahead21 Dec 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Vis Pesaro in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Lorenzo Podda 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 Lorenzo Podda trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Match12 Dec 2026
The drought breaks for Gubbio
7 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Pineto were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Gubbio training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giovanni Di Noia 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Matteo Trevisan 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Andrea La Mantia’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Gubbio.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Leonardo Marson and Gubbio agree another 4 years.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
A defender's afternoon for Lorenzo Podda
Defensive actions: 18. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Giacomo Rosaia
“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 ratings14 Dec 2026
Marked 7.63 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Gubbio had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Achille Serra could afford to be generous.
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Crisis
The terraces7 Dec 2026
Anger at Gubbio spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Match7 Dec 2026
Gubbio sink to position 15
7 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match5 Dec 2026
No end in sight to Gubbio's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Gubbio has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings7 Dec 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 7.90 for the rest of it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Gubbio
Nicola Murru and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match5 Dec 2026
Gubbio are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 5 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Gubbio
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Giovanni Di Noia was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match5 Dec 2026
Campobasso left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
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Crisis
Match28 Nov 2026
0‑3 to Pescara, 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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match28 Nov 2026
6 matches without a win for Gubbio
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Gubbio are no longer polite ones.
Match28 Nov 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Gubbio
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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Daniel Bahia 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Doors closed at Gubbio
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
The dugout30 Nov 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 Achille Serra to a room that had heard them before.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Giacomo Rosaia
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.
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Crisis
Squad23 Nov 2026
9 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for Gubbio
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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Gubbio training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giovanni Di Noia 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
A bad afternoon for Gubbio against Reggiana
0‑2 to Reggiana, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gabriele Costa, and the manager let it.
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 0‑2 Achille Serra left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
A promise honoured at Gubbio
Something was said to Gabriele Costa and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
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.
Looking ahead23 Nov 2026
The leaders are next for Gubbio
Pescara top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.
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Uneasy
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alessandro Ahmetaj, and the manager let it.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Gubbio
Orazio Pazienza 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
Gabriele Costa knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Gubbio, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The division's best last weekend was a Gubbio man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Daniel Bahia was the best thing in any of them.
The dugout16 Nov 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 Alesandro Comita is on it.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
They sit in position 2 and they will be waiting. Away form is where a season shows its true character, and this side has a point to make about its own.
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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
18 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.
Match4 Nov 2026
The small margins put Gubbio out
Out, 0‑3 to Genoa, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A brace, and Daniel Bahia takes the afternoon — 8.54
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Daniel Bahia provided it, and the 8.54 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match9 Nov 2026
Every point is an argument now for Gubbio
Position 14 and 7 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
A cup embarrassment at Genoa follows Gubbio home
0-3. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.
Match7 Nov 2026
4 matches without a win for Gubbio
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Gubbio are no longer polite ones.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Nicola Murru 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.
Boardroom9 Nov 2026
Nobody left the Gubbio dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Squad9 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gubbio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
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Match
Gubbio share the spoils with Forli
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Squad
Daniel Bahia named player of the week
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Gubbio
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Giovanni Di Noia was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Lorenzo Podda
“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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
A defender's afternoon for Nicola Murru
Defensive actions: 15. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Half-satisfied: Achille Serra on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Gubbio will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Titas Krapikas's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
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Crisis
Match24 Oct 2026
Nowhere to hide for Gubbio
0‑3 against Perugia, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Gubbio may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tommaso Ghirardello commits to Gubbio for another 5 years.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Gubbio training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giovanni Di Noia 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 ratings26 Oct 2026
The game went through Lorenzo Podda — 7.01
Marked 7.01 on 11 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Gubbio
Orazio Pazienza and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Giacomo Rosaia, and the manager let it.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
Doors closed at Gubbio
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
Too much change too quickly at Gubbio
15 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.
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Steady
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Andrea La Mantia, 35, rolls back the years — 7.80
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.80 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Gubbio have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Gubbio
Nicola Murru and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match17 Oct 2026
Gubbio get the job done against Latina
A 2‑1 win over Latina, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces19 Oct 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Goalkeepers do not get to make mistakes; they get to make goals. He made one, he knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Achille Serra kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Tommaso Ghirardello is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Francesco Zallu and Gubbio agree another 4 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Giovanni Di Noia 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Federico Carraro, and the manager let it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Alesandro Comita has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Gubbio will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Lorenzo Podda has seen what the next man earns
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Gubbio that is a harder question to answer.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
Supporters make their feelings known about Tommaso Ghirardello
The speculation has reached the stands, and the stands have answered. Gubbio would like this settled before it becomes the only thing anybody asks about.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Tancredi Vella 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 Tancredi Vella trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Next up at home: Latina, who go into it in position 12. The kind of fixture a season is quietly built on or quietly loses its shape in.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
There were 8 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
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Gubbio
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Giovanni Di Noia was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Daniel Bahia
“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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
92% of the income goes out in wages at Gubbio
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.
Match3 Oct 2026
It needed Andrea La Mantia to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Pianese, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Achille Serra chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Giacomo Rosaia
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.
The dugout5 Oct 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 Giacomo Beretta is on it.
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Uneasy
Match23 Sep 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Giacomo Beretta obliged against Vis Pesaro. 3‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Gubbio.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.90 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad28 Sep 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Gabriele Costa
“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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Level with 85 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Gubbio had all but put away. Guidonia Montecelio 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
Words exchanged at Gubbio
Orazio Pazienza 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
Too much change too quickly at Gubbio
15 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.
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Crisis
Squad21 Sep 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Gubbio training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giovanni Di Noia 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Nicola Murru
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Appearance number 200 for Nicolò Fazzi
200 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. 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 dugout21 Sep 2026
The plan did not have a place for Daniel Bahia
Nobody at Gubbio is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Chances created: 7. Nothing on the scoresheet and everything in the match: the pass before the pass, over and over, until the defence stopped guessing right.
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Crisis
Market14 Sep 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 Gubbio, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Cosenza wanted more than $510.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Giovanni Di Noia 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.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Gubbio asked and Genoa said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match12 Sep 2026
Spezia left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Michele Bellucci 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 6.66 on 9 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad14 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gubbio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Uneasy
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Gubbio close the window on a squad of their own making
16 in and 0 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
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Gubbio have done the hard part with Cremonese, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The offer went to Cosenza this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A move Gianni Vadacca would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Gianni Vadacca is living that version at Gubbio, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Gubbio asked and Lugo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Gubbio
Orazio Pazienza 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
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Gianni Vadacca and Gubbio agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market7 Sep 2026
Gianni Vadacca is 19, and Gubbio 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.
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Crisis
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 Gubbio, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Frosinone is saying, and nobody at Gubbio is enjoying the guessing.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Gubbio
Nicola Murru 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
A row about effort at Gubbio
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Giovanni Di Noia was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match29 Aug 2026
Livorno left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alessandro Ahmetaj, and the manager let it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
14 new faces, and Gubbio 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 supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The deal with Foggia is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Gubbio asked and Sassuolo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Gubbio
Samuele Duro was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad24 Aug 2026
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Gubbio are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Gubbio say no to the training-ground money
The plan went upstairs and came back down. Nothing about that will make a headline anywhere else, and everybody who works at the training ground will remember it for years.
Looking ahead24 Aug 2026
Livorno next, and one man in the Gubbio dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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Steady
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Gubbio asked and Padova said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A loan move for Jasper Hartog is in the works
Gubbio have made the call to AZ. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Samuele Duro 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 Gubbio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alessandro Ahmetaj and Gubbio agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bologna have kept their man, and Gubbio go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Domenico Lombardo has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Cristiano Schiavone is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Giacomo Armani has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Valentino Di Stefano 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.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Andrea La Mantia and Gubbio agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Gubbio
Andrea La Mantia and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Tenerife have kept their man, and Gubbio go back to a list with one name crossed off it.