From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
28 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Pianese lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Seid Korać
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Pianese have done the hard part with Venezia, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
No thanks: Seid Korać rejects the move
Pianese had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Venezia, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Pianese
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Francesco Proietto was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Pianese asked and Hellas Verona said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Pianese
Alessandro Reali 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.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Marco Bertini
35 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Pianese lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Arezzo keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Pianese
Leonardo Di Cosmo 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
43 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Pianese lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market10 Aug 2026
Sorrento come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Pianese did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Pianese have done the hard part with Arezzo, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Genoa keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Simone Ianesi and Pianese agree another 4 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 Pianese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jacopo Ferri 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. Ignazio Caputo 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
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Federico Caputo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
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Squad
7 new faces, and Pianese are still learning each other
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The dugout
Simone Ianesi knocks on the manager’s door
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Luca Fabrizi and Pianese agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Leonardo Di Cosmo 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
Francesco Proietto 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
The clock runs on Luca Fabrizi'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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Giuseppe Ciocci is in the works
Pianese have made the call to Spezia. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Matías Pérez is in the works
Pianese have made the call to Lecce. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.