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Upbeat
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.15 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Michele Rocca and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match19 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Alfredo Donnarumma’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Lumezzane.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Luigi Pellegrino could afford to be generous.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Matteo Ferro 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.
Market21 Sep 2026
Lumezzane have made Marco Moscati available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Trento in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 10. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Steady
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Andrea Boffelli 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.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Quilmes have kept their man, and Lumezzane go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market14 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Valerio Vannucci is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sebastiano Pasquali 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Michele Pagani is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Paolo Ferrari 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 dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maissa Ndiaye, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Lumezzane training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matteo Ferro 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.
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Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Lumezzane, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 14 in, 1 out at Lumezzane
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 14 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Basel is saying, and nobody at Lumezzane is enjoying the guessing.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Lumezzane
Andrea Boffelli 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 targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Crvena Zvezda have kept their man, and Lumezzane go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Luigi Pellegrino was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Lumezzane dressing room was either.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Match5 Sep 2026
Point won or two lost for Lumezzane?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Arzignano? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 8. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Triumph
Market31 Aug 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.92 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Basel, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
No thanks: Kauã Moraes rejects the move
Lumezzane had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Cruzeiro, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Player ratings31 Aug 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.
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 Lumezzane this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match29 Aug 2026
Three points for Lumezzane, 1‑0 the final word against Union Brescia in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marco Moscati, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market24 Aug 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 Lumezzane can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Michele Rocca and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
2 academy graduates step up at Lumezzane
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Palermo have kept their man, and Lumezzane go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market24 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Diego Rinaldi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market24 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Leandro Giordano is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Lumezzane
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matteo Ferro was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Lumezzane 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Maissa Ndiaye may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Steady
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Ulises Vera
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Lumezzane have done the hard part with Quilmes, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Crvena Zvezda keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Lumezzane
Michele Rocca 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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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Lumezzane say no — this time
The offer from Arzignano for Francesco Bonardi was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
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 Lumezzane this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Lumezzane asked and Sampdoria said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Silvio Bartoli 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. Giorgio Esposito 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. Luca Moretti 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Crvena Zvezda 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Feyenoord: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Matteo Ferro 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Michele Rocca commits to Lumezzane for another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Michele Rocca 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 Lumezzane training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vincenzo Colangiuli is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market3 Aug 2026
36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Lumezzane are still strangers to each other
10 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.