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Match13 Feb 2027
14 matches without a win for Hellas Verona
The run now stands at 14, and the questions being asked around Hellas Verona are no longer polite ones.
Match13 Feb 2027
0‑7 to Inter, 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.
Market15 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.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Abdou Harroui: 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.” Hellas Verona have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad15 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 Hellas Verona this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match13 Feb 2027
4 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.
Match13 Feb 2027
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Hellas Verona and Inter, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Boardroom15 Feb 2027
Still nobody in the Hellas Verona dugout
14 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.
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Boardroom8 Feb 2027
The statement thanked him for his efforts and wished him well, in that order and in about that many words. The search begins immediately.
Match6 Feb 2027
13 matches without a win for Hellas Verona
The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Hellas Verona are no longer polite ones.
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.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
The Hellas Verona board call everybody in
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
“Somebody has to pick the team on Saturday, and this week that is me.” An interim appointment with no promises attached, which is how most of them start.
Market8 Feb 2027
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Palermo moved on, Daniel Mosquera reports back to Hellas Verona, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Hellas Verona may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Domagoj Bradarić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gabriele Zappa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Crisis
Match30 Jan 2027
No end in sight to Hellas Verona's wait for a win
12 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Hellas Verona has to find a result from somewhere.
Match1 Feb 2027
Position 19, 11 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market1 Feb 2027
Bologna come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Hellas Verona did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market1 Feb 2027
Cheikh Niasse 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 Hellas Verona can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Hellas Verona close the window on a squad of their own making
4 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Domagoj Bradarić 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.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
The target is George Davies, the approach is real, and the compensation clause is the whole conversation. Clubs deny this kind of story right up until the photograph.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Hull City have kept their man, and Hellas Verona go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match30 Jan 2027
Napoli left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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The terraces25 Jan 2027
Supporters organise against the Hellas Verona board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Match23 Jan 2027
11 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.
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 Hellas Verona can pretend not to have heard.
Squad25 Jan 2027
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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Domagoj Bradarić 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Gabriele Zappa 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 targets25 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Torino have kept their man, and Hellas Verona go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Suat Serdar 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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Match16 Jan 2027
10 matches without a win for Hellas Verona
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Hellas Verona are no longer polite ones.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market18 Jan 2027
Sandi Lovrić 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 Hellas Verona can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Amin Sarr scores twice — 9.05
Two goals and a mark of 9.05 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
The deal with Sassuolo 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Ali Al Musrati and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match16 Jan 2027
Amin Sarr among the goals in a wild afternoon
6 goals in one match, Amin Sarr on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Hellas Verona and AC Milan.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gabriele Zappa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bloemfontein Celtic have kept their man, and Hellas Verona go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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Match9 Jan 2027
9 matches without a win for Hellas Verona
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Hellas Verona are no longer polite ones.
Match9 Jan 2027
A 0‑3 beating by Sassuolo was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Market11 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 Hellas Verona, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market11 Jan 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Hellas Verona people have started saying his name in the past tense.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Hellas Verona may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Domagoj Bradarić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom11 Jan 2027
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Ali Al Musrati
“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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Suat Serdar was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Squad4 Jan 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 11 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Hellas Verona is running low.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
Alessio Iannuzzi has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Hellas Verona can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Match4 Jan 2027
9 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match2 Jan 2027
8 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
Bologna come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Hellas Verona did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Everything agreed with Lazio, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Baye Diagne has agreed terms with Virtus Verona for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Domagoj Bradarić 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.
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The terraces28 Dec 2026
Anger at Hellas Verona 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.
Market28 Dec 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match26 Dec 2026
7 matches without a win for Hellas Verona
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Hellas Verona are no longer polite ones.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Domagoj Bradarić 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 Dec 2026
Gabriele Zappa 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 Dec 2026
Cagliari left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Suat Serdar, and the manager let it.
Match28 Dec 2026
Half the programme played, position 19, 8 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
The dugout28 Dec 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.
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Market21 Dec 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 Hellas Verona, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match19 Dec 2026
6 matches without a win for Hellas Verona
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Hellas Verona are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 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 Hellas Verona this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tomáš Suslov, and the manager let it.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and João Basso was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. 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
Late, late show earns Hellas Verona a point
Minute 88, against Cremonese, 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.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Marked 7.96. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Tomáš Suslov is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
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Match12 Dec 2026
0‑3 to Genoa, 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Hellas Verona can pretend not to have heard.
Match12 Dec 2026
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.
Squad14 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 Hellas Verona this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Hellas Verona training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gabriele Zappa 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 dugout14 Dec 2026
João Basso 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.
Boardroom14 Dec 2026
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 dugout14 Dec 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Samuele Mulattieri'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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
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Match5 Dec 2026
1‑5 to Juventus, 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.
Match7 Dec 2026
Position 19, 7 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Hellas Verona
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Match5 Dec 2026
4 matches without a win for Hellas Verona
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Hellas Verona are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Domagoj Bradarić 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Hellas Verona and Juventus in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Hellas Verona training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gabriele Zappa 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
39 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Daniel Mosquera
“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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The terraces30 Nov 2026
The mood at Hellas Verona has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Ali Al Musrati 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.
Market30 Nov 2026
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Hellas Verona can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Pol Lirola beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match28 Nov 2026
Lecce left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Hellas Verona training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. João Basso 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 dugout30 Nov 2026
A promise honoured for Amin Sarr
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Hellas Verona told Amin Sarr something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout30 Nov 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 dugout30 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.
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Market23 Nov 2026
Sandi Lovrić 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 Hellas Verona can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Pol Lirola beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Sandi Lovrić 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 Hellas Verona this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Gabriele Zappa 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 dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Sandi Lovrić
“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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
8 new faces, and Hellas Verona 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Daniel Molina and Hellas Verona agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match21 Nov 2026
It needed Samuele Mulattieri to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Parma, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Samuele Mulattieri trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Match14 Nov 2026
0‑3 against Udinese, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market16 Nov 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Hellas Verona can pretend not to have heard.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Domagoj Bradarić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings16 Nov 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Gabriele Zappa 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Suat Serdar
“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.
Boardroom16 Nov 2026
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 dugout16 Nov 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 42. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match4 Nov 2026
Out, 1‑1 to Ravenna, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Match7 Nov 2026
It had gone 12 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Match9 Nov 2026
Position 18, 6 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market9 Nov 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 Hellas Verona heard it as anything else.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Sandi Lovrić 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
Pisa made Hellas Verona work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and João Basso was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Match31 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Hellas Verona's wait for a win
11 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Hellas Verona has to find a result from somewhere.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
Anger at Hellas Verona 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Hellas Verona may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market2 Nov 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 Hellas Verona heard it as anything else.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Domagoj Bradarić 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Gabriele Zappa 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
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then AS Roma scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Something was said to Sandi Lovrić and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
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Match24 Oct 2026
10 matches without a win for Hellas Verona
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Hellas Verona are no longer polite ones.
Match24 Oct 2026
0‑3 to Bologna, 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.
Squad26 Oct 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
5 matches without a goal for Hellas Verona
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Market26 Oct 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Sandi Lovrić wants continental football; whether Hellas Verona can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Ali Al Musrati and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Hellas Verona training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gabriele Zappa 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Daniel Mosquera, and the manager let it.
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Match17 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Hellas Verona's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Hellas Verona has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad19 Oct 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Domagoj Bradarić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match17 Oct 2026
4 matches without a goal for Hellas Verona
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.
Squad19 Oct 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Como left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and João Basso was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout19 Oct 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.
The dugout19 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.
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Crisis
Match10 Oct 2026
0‑5 against Fiorentina, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Match10 Oct 2026
8 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.
Squad12 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ali Al Musrati 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
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gabriele Zappa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match10 Oct 2026
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Hellas Verona can tell you which week it ends in.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Sandi Lovrić
“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 ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. 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.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
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Crisis
Match3 Oct 2026
A 0‑3 beating by Inter was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Match3 Oct 2026
7 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Sandi Lovrić 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The step up is real for Nicolò Rota
At 18 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 ratings5 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Hellas Verona training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gabriele Zappa 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Nobody left the Hellas Verona 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 dugout5 Oct 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 0‑3 Alessio Iannuzzi left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
16 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Hellas Verona lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match26 Sep 2026
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.
Squad28 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 Hellas Verona this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Hellas Verona training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. João Basso 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 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Hellas Verona
18 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A mark of 7.63, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Hellas Verona, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
Arthur Rampineli damages knee ligaments — 25 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 25 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match19 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Hellas Verona
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Hellas Verona are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Domagoj Bradarić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Giacomo Toniolo 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gabriele Zappa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Pol Lirola did the work nobody counts — 7.08
11 combined actions and 7.08. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of João Basso
“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 ratings21 Sep 2026
Nobody on the pitch touched Amin Sarr
7.80, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Hellas Verona had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Match19 Sep 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.
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Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
Arthur Rampineli damages knee ligaments — 36 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 36 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match12 Sep 2026
A 1‑4 beating by Torino was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Hellas Verona — 7.71
1 for Ali Al Musrati, marked 7.71, 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Hellas Verona
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Hellas Verona are no longer polite ones.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Domagoj Bradarić 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Gabriele Zappa 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
Hellas Verona asked and Pescara 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
Hellas Verona are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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.
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Crisis
Match5 Sep 2026
0‑4 against AC Milan, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market7 Sep 2026
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Fiorentina moved on, Domagoj Bradarić reports back to Hellas Verona, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 9 in, 2 out at Hellas Verona
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 9 arrived, 2 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ali Al Musrati 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The step up is real for Nicolò Rota
At 18 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
3 matches without a goal for Hellas Verona
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Talleres have kept their man, and Hellas Verona go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The clock did what Pescara would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Squad7 Sep 2026
João Basso 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
Market31 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done: Rosen Bozhinov joins from Pisa in a deal worth $4.2M. Now comes the harder part.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The clubs have shaken hands with Pescara; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Squad31 Aug 2026
João Basso gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. João Basso has just signed for Hellas Verona, and for once the answer mattered.
Market31 Aug 2026
The name of Domagoj Bradarić has come up in conversations Hellas Verona were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The deal with Monza 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.
Squad31 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 Hellas Verona this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gabriele Zappa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces31 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: Rosen Bozhinov from Pisa for $4.2M, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
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.
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Crisis
Match22 Aug 2026
A 0‑4 beating by Atalanta was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Hellas Verona and Venezia have settled on $3.0M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Hellas Verona have done the hard part with Pisa, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Market24 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.
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 Hellas Verona this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
1 academy players handed senior numbers at Hellas Verona
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Transfer targets24 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gabriele Galli is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Suat Serdar, and the manager let it.
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Steady
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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Hellas Verona offered $2.7M; Fiorentina 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.
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
Domagoj Bradarić 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 targets17 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to TSG Hoffenheim: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Looking ahead17 Aug 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Atalanta in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Caleb Ekuban 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 Hellas Verona that is a harder question to answer.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Domagoj Bradarić keeps the shirt for now, at Hellas Verona's convenience rather than his own.
Market17 Aug 2026
A season-long look at somebody else’s player: Raffaele Romano arrives from Benevento with something to prove and a return ticket in the drawer. Good loans make everybody richer; this one starts Saturday.
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Steady
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The offer went to Fiorentina 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Racing Santander is saying, and nobody at Hellas Verona is enjoying the guessing.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Domagoj Bradarić commits to Hellas Verona for another 5 years.
Squad10 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 Hellas Verona this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
Sandi Lovrić 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 Hellas Verona hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Samuele Mulattieri was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets10 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.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Benevento: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
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Steady
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Hellas Verona asked and Lecce said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market3 Aug 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Caleb Ekuban and Hellas Verona agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Domagoj Bradarić 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Hellas Verona can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Pol Lirola 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
8 new faces, and Hellas Verona 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Racing Santander have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.