From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 34. 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.
Market22 Feb 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 The request is on a desk at Juve Stabia, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Juve Stabia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match20 Feb 2027
4 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Giuseppe Sibilli 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at Juve Stabia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marco Bellich 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.
Match20 Feb 2027
Late, late show earns Juve Stabia a point
Minute 86, against Bari, 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.
Market22 Feb 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Fabio Maistro has his answer from Juve Stabia; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
“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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Uneasy
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
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Giuseppe Sibilli and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marco Bellich was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad15 Feb 2027
11 new faces, and Juve Stabia 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.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Nobody on the pitch touched Marco Bellich
7.31, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Juve Stabia had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Half-satisfied: Mariano Bosco 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.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Somebody else is better right now than Thiago Szkaluba
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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Uneasy
Market8 Feb 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 Juve Stabia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
The window shuts on the Alessio Nepi deal
Juve Stabia ran out of time with Perugia. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Franco Germán arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Franco Germán has, at Juve Stabia, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Marco Bellich 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.
Boardroom8 Feb 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Eric Tovo 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 dugout8 Feb 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market8 Feb 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alberto Ferrari is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Juve Stabia know it.
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Uneasy
Market1 Feb 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 Juve Stabia, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Juve Stabia may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
$1.4M settles it between the clubs for Alessio Nepi
Perugia have accepted the money. What Juve Stabia do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Juve Stabia close the window on a squad of their own making
8 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 targets1 Feb 2027
Everything agreed with Sampdoria, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A move Alejo Carnovale 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. Alejo Carnovale is living that version at Juve Stabia, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Giuseppe Sibilli 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 ratings1 Feb 2027
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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Marco Bellich falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
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Steady
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 Juve Stabia can pretend not to have heard.
Squad25 Jan 2027
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Juve Stabia may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Giuseppe Sibilli 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nermin Karić commits to Juve Stabia for another 4 years.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Marco Bellich 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 ratings25 Jan 2027
Marked 9.35 — 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.
Match23 Jan 2027
Padova made Juve Stabia work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Boardroom25 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
The deal with Padova 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.
Match16 Jan 2027
4 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Christian Pierobon and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Giuseppe Sibilli 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.
Boardroom18 Jan 2027
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Luigi Carillo has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Juve Stabia have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Juve Stabia asked and Catania said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match16 Jan 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad18 Jan 2027
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match9 Jan 2027
Chastening afternoon for Juve Stabia
A 0‑3 beating by Spezia was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad11 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Juve Stabia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom11 Jan 2027
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Amadou Konaté has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Juve Stabia have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Juve Stabia asked and Union Brescia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market11 Jan 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Elia Zangari is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Fabio Maistro was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alexander Acosta commits to Juve Stabia for another 4 years.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad4 Jan 2027
Giuseppe Sibilli 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
At 20 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.
Boardroom4 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.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Juve Stabia 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.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
A performance of 8.21 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Juve Stabia can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Match2 Jan 2027
A point taken on 86 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
Market4 Jan 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Marco Varnier has his answer from Juve Stabia; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
16 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Juve Stabia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad28 Dec 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Christian Pierobon 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 Dec 2026
Giuseppe Sibilli 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
Juve Stabia rescue it on 97 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 97. Mantova had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Fabio Maistro, and the manager let it.
Match26 Dec 2026
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages eat 87% of everything Juve Stabia earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
The dugout28 Dec 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.” Mariano Bosco chose the glass-half-full version of 2‑2; the supporters left with the other one.
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Upbeat
Squad21 Dec 2026
24 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Juve Stabia lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
7.95, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Giuseppe Sibilli was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Mariano Bosco on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Nermin Karić'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 dugout21 Dec 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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Crisis
Squad14 Dec 2026
31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Juve Stabia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match9 Dec 2026
The small margins put Juve Stabia out
Out, 0‑2 to Udinese, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Match12 Dec 2026
0‑3 to Carrarese, 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.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. 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 dugout14 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marco Varnier, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Gabriel Toloza and Juve Stabia agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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
Marco Bellich 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.
The dugout14 Dec 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 Mariano Bosco left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Upbeat
Squad7 Dec 2026
38 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Juve Stabia lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Giuseppe Sibilli was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match5 Dec 2026
Three points for Juve Stabia, 2‑0 the final word against Cesena in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Tommaso Maggioni and Juve Stabia agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Marked 8.19. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Juve Stabia.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Davide Bettella 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 dugout7 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Federico Artioli, and the manager let it.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑0, already talking about the next one.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Juan Cruz Meza
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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Upbeat
Match28 Nov 2026
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Juve Stabia scored in the 97th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.81, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Giuseppe Sibilli 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 terraces30 Nov 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Nermin Karić 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 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad23 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 12 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match21 Nov 2026
Beaten 1‑4 by Monza, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Giuseppe Sibilli and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Boardroom23 Nov 2026
Nobody left the Juve Stabia dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑4, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Something was said to Manuel Ricciardi and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Squad23 Nov 2026
One booking too many, and a game watched from the stand. Juve Stabia lose him for the most avoidable reason in the sport.
Squad23 Nov 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad16 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 Juve Stabia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Juve Stabia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giuseppe Sibilli 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 dugout16 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Pescara leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Mariano Bosco was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Juve Stabia dressing room was either.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
The leaders are next for Juve Stabia
Monza top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Manuel Ricciardi has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Juve Stabia 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.
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Upbeat
Match4 Nov 2026
Benevento are out and Juve Stabia go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Giuseppe Sibilli 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Giuseppe Sibilli. 2‑1 against Sampdoria, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Justin Kumi 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 ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market9 Nov 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Romano Bianco 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Nermin Karić 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 ratings9 Nov 2026
Marked 8.00 — 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Federico Artioli, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
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.
Match31 Oct 2026
Venezia left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Davide Bettella
“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 dugout2 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 1‑2 Mariano Bosco left the room before anybody could ask which.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
86% of the income goes out in wages at Juve Stabia
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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Jur Schipper named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Jur Schipper is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Young player of the week: Jur Schipper
At 20 he was the best of everybody his age in the division for one weekend. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Looking ahead2 Nov 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Giuseppe Sibilli’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Juve Stabia needing him to play as if none of it matters.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Giuseppe Sibilli was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Fabio Maistro
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Juve Stabia
13 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Mariano Bosco after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Jur Schipper, 20, is the weekend’s best young player
Measured against every other kid in the division and first among them. The senior award is where Juve Stabia would like this to lead.
Match24 Oct 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Frosinone defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Looking ahead26 Oct 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Pietro Boer’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Juve Stabia needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 19 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Giuseppe Sibilli 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 ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Davide Bettella 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
A 1‑0 win over Südtirol, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
7.95, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Juve Stabia had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Mariano Bosco could afford to be generous.
Squad19 Oct 2026
One booking too many, and Marco Bellich sits out. Juve Stabia lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.
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Uneasy
Match10 Oct 2026
Juve Stabia throw away a 2-goal lead
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Bari the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Juve Stabia will enjoy reviewing.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.78 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
The dugout12 Oct 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Giuseppe Sibilli 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Valentino Vitale 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gabriel Toloza commits to Juve Stabia for another 1 years.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Antonio Di Nardo, and the manager let it.
Match10 Oct 2026
A 2‑2 draw with Bari leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Market12 Oct 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Juve Stabia, another week without a signature from Fabio Maistro.
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Crisis
Squad5 Oct 2026
Christian Pierobon and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Justin Kumi 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Juve Stabia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giuseppe Sibilli 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
1‑2 to Catanzaro, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad5 Oct 2026
200 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Davide Bettella
“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
Wages swallow 108% of the Juve Stabia income
Every club 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 it has been tried.
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 1‑2 Mariano Bosco left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad5 Oct 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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Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
Giuseppe Sibilli and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match26 Sep 2026
A 2‑1 win over Empoli, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Justin Kumi 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Juve Stabia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nermin Karić 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 ratings28 Sep 2026
Christian Pierobon was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.13. 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 dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Fabio Maistro
“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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Juve Stabia are still strangers to each other
13 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Mariano Bosco on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Match19 Sep 2026
0‑4 to Modena, 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Juve Stabia
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Juve Stabia are no longer polite ones.
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 Juve Stabia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
At 20 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
Nobody left the Juve Stabia 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 dugout21 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑4, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Player ratings21 Sep 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Beaten 4 times: a bad day for Ante Vuković
3 saves does not settle the argument about whose fault it was, and the argument will run all week. Goalkeepers carry these scorelines whoever caused them.
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Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Juve Stabia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giuseppe Sibilli 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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.
Market14 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Romano Caruso 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match12 Sep 2026
Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Giuseppe Sibilli had Juve Stabia level again within 4 minutes, and Padova never got to play with a lead at all.
The dugout14 Sep 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Juve Stabia have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Looking ahead14 Sep 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Tommaso Maggioni’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Juve Stabia needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 16 in, 1 out at Juve Stabia
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 16 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Juve Stabia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giuseppe Sibilli 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 dugout7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Davide Bettella, and the manager let it.
Match5 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.
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 captaincy has been taken off Nicola Pietrangeli. Juve Stabia will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
The dugout7 Sep 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.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Mariano Bosco was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Juve Stabia dressing room was either.
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Crisis
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 Juve Stabia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match29 Aug 2026
1‑2 to Spezia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
13 new faces, and Juve Stabia are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Mariano Bosco to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sheriff Kassama, and the manager let it.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Nermin Karić finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Juve Stabia have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Looking ahead31 Aug 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Justin Kumi’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Juve Stabia needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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Steady
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: AC Milan keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Juve Stabia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giuseppe Sibilli 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Davide Bettella and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Francesco Melis and Juve Stabia agree another 4 years.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Juve Stabia 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A season on the outside for Jur Schipper
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Juve Stabia has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
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Steady
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The deal with AC Milan 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Giuseppe Sibilli 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
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nermin Karić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Marco Bellich and Juve Stabia agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Giuseppe Sibilli and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marco Scalise 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mariano Morelli 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. Francesco Melis 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
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luca Ferrara 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.
The dugout10 Aug 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 Juve Stabia, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad10 Aug 2026
No place for Gabriel Toloza in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Juve Stabia are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
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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.” Leonardo Candellone and Juve Stabia agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Nicola Pietrangeli 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Juve Stabia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giuseppe Sibilli is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Juve Stabia asked and Chamois Niortais 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
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Juve Stabia, another week without a signature from Christian Pierobon.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Leonardo Candellone’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.