The Monopoli Gazette
Squad3 Aug 2026
Raffaele Pucino stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Raffaele Pucino and Monopoli agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Monopoli
Raffaele Pucino 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
Davide Bove 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Monopoli and Raffaele Pucino are talking past each other
“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.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months and counting on Freddi Greco
Still no offer on the table, and Freddi Greco’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
7 new faces, and Monopoli 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.
In brief
- Transfer targets Monopoli ask about Matteo Grandi
- Transfer targets Monopoli try to borrow Alexis Mirbach
- The dugout Mirko Albertazzi knocks on the manager's door
- Market Andrea Notarnicola leaves for nothing