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Triumph
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.59, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match17 Oct 2026
Nobody wants to play Monza right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Monza
Cyril Ngonge 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
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 ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match17 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Patrick Cutrone. 2‑0 against Frosinone, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Gabriele Casella on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Matteo Porta 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.
Market19 Oct 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Monza know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Market12 Oct 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Monza they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Cyril Ngonge 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 Monza this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match10 Oct 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Exequiel Zeballos’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Monza.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.32, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad12 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 10 actions, 6.90, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Gabriele Casella kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Valentin Antov 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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Triumph
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Monza
Cyril Ngonge and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Monza training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matteo Pessina 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
194% of the income goes out in wages at Monza
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Match3 Oct 2026
Three points for Monza, 2‑0 the final word against Bari in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Marked 8.50 — 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.38 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Cyril Ngonge
8 goals and a season average of 7.23 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Dany Mota 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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Match23 Sep 2026
Monza march on in the cup
Latina are out and Monza go through, 3‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.74 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Liam Matoh Horvat at 17 — 7.66
The hardest thing about being 17 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Liam Matoh Horvat did not need any: 7.66, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.88, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Monza
Cyril Ngonge 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Catanzaro left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Noel Törnqvist, and the manager let it.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
Monza supporters have found a favourite in Jordan Longhi
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Jordan Longhi 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
The run is over for Monza
5 matches without defeat, and then Catanzaro. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
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Triumph
Match19 Sep 2026
No mercy from Monza
Empoli will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Monza were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.98, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match19 Sep 2026
Monza make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Monza have 4 straight wins of it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Monza
Cyril Ngonge 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 dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Gabriele Casella, on a 3‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Matteo Porta
“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 dugout21 Sep 2026
The plan did not have a place for Patrick Cutrone
Nobody at Monza is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Andrea Carboni knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Andrea Carboni trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
The pass was always on for Dany Mota
Chances created: 8. Somebody has to open a door before anybody can walk through it, and he spent the afternoon opening doors.
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Triumph
Market14 Sep 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Monza they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match12 Sep 2026
Monza cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Cyril Ngonge 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 Monza this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Monza
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matteo Pessina was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match12 Sep 2026
Monza get the job done against Modena
A 2‑1 win over Modena, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Cyril Ngonge was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.29. 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 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑1, already talking about the next one.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Chances created: 10. Somebody has to open a door before anybody can walk through it, and he spent the afternoon opening doors.
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Triumph
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.99, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Monza close the window on a squad of their own making
5 in and 7 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Monza
Cyril Ngonge and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout7 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Monza get the job done against Padova
A 2‑0 win over Padova, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout7 Sep 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 15, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Monza will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
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Triumph
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.37 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A brace, and Cyril Ngonge takes the afternoon — 9.35
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Cyril Ngonge provided it, and the 9.35 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Monza
Cyril Ngonge 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Monza and Reggiana, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Match29 Aug 2026
Three points for Monza, 4‑2 the final word against Reggiana in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad31 Aug 2026
8 new faces, and Monza 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
Noel Törnqvist dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Patrick Ciurria
“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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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
Pescara come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Monza did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market24 Aug 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Monza have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market24 Aug 2026
Parma pay $1.1M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Monza
Cyril Ngonge 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.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
1 academy players handed senior numbers at Monza
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Monza
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matteo Pessina was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market24 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sandro Ruggiero 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.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Monza say no to the training-ground money
The plan went upstairs and came back down. Nothing about that will make a headline anywhere else, and everybody who works at the training ground will remember it for years.
Looking ahead24 Aug 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Lorenzo Lucchesi’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Monza needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Cyril Ngonge 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 Monza this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market17 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Carlo Gamberini 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Luca Rizzo joins the Monza first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Luca Rizzo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market17 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Alberto Salvatore 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Teodoro Del Vecchio 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The sharpest man in every session this week, by all accounts. Lines like this run the week before somebody’s run in the side begins.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Carrarese waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Monza is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Monza
Cyril Ngonge 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 dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Patrick Cutrone
“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.
Loan watch10 Aug 2026
“I did not go to Austria Wien to sit and watch. I want to come back to Monza and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 0 matches say the rest.
Market10 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Andrea Carboni knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Andrea Carboni trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Where he used to play does most of his talking for him at Monza. The room defers to it, the kids study it, and the only thing that can puncture it is a bad month.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A wage question at Monza
Patrick Cutrone has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
Monza say no — this time
The offer from KV Kortrijk for Gustavo Varela 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Andrea Colpani and Monza agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Monza
Cyril Ngonge and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Monza
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matteo Pessina was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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
The clock runs on Matteo Pessina's contract
49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.