From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match9 Jan 2027
A hiding for Pisa
Beaten 0‑3 by AC Milan, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Pisa
Jens Odgaard and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Pisa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stefano Moreo 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.
Squad11 Jan 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 Pisa know it.
Squad11 Jan 2027
200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Mehdi Léris 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.
Boardroom11 Jan 2027
Nobody left the Pisa 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 dugout11 Jan 2027
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Market11 Jan 2027
Ternana are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Pisa will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
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Steady
Squad4 Jan 2027
15 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Pisa lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market4 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 Pisa can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout4 Jan 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Pisa
Jens Odgaard 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Pisa hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad4 Jan 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 Pisa know it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at Pisa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mehdi Léris 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 dugout4 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Antonio Caracciolo, and the manager let it.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
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.
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Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
23 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Pisa lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Pisa
Jens Odgaard 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A move Ahmed Sharaf 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. Ahmed Sharaf is living that version at Pisa, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Pisa
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nicolás Ramírez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jonathan Rodríguez, and the manager let it.
Match28 Dec 2026
Halfway: Pisa sit in position 12
23 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.
Loan watch28 Dec 2026
“I did not go to Spezia to sit and watch. I want to come back to Pisa and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.
Match26 Dec 2026
It needed Filip Stojilković to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Bologna, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
30 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Pisa lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Jens Odgaard 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 Pisa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Pisa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stefano Moreo 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 dugout21 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Filip Stojilković, and the manager let it.
Match19 Dec 2026
Three points for Pisa, 1‑0 the final word against Como in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Loan watch21 Dec 2026
13 goals on loan for Elia Giani
17 appearances at Carpi and the goals keep coming. Pisa are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Marked 8.06 — 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 ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
A promise honoured at Pisa
Something was said to Filip Stojilković and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
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Uneasy
Match9 Dec 2026
Pisa through in the cup
A 2‑1 win over Torino, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match9 Dec 2026
Cruel end for Torino as Pisa pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Pisa scored in the 95th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
A brace, and Filippo Pittarello takes the afternoon — 8.74
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Filippo Pittarello provided it, and the 8.74 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Pisa
Jens Odgaard and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The terraces14 Dec 2026
At 18 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Pisa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jonathan Rodríguez 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 dugout14 Dec 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 Dec 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 Pisa, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match5 Dec 2026
4 matches without a win for Pisa
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Pisa are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Pisa
Jens Odgaard 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
After 8 games, Pisa finally taste it again
The first defeat in 8 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Inter; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
Market7 Dec 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Market7 Dec 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Pisa heard it as anything else.
Match5 Dec 2026
Pisa come up short against Inter
Inter left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Pisa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Ramírez 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.
Loan watch7 Dec 2026
The goals keep arriving from Elia Giani’s exile
11 goals in 15 games at Carpi — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Pisa updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
The dugout7 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 1‑3 Gregorio Calabrese left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Steady
Match28 Nov 2026
Still nobody has beaten Pisa
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Market30 Nov 2026
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Pisa can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Pisa
Jens Odgaard 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
Pisa cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Pisa
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nicolás Ramírez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad30 Nov 2026
54 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mehdi Léris, and the manager let it.
Loan watch30 Nov 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Pisa, and 3 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
Loan watch30 Nov 2026
10 goals on loan for Elia Giani
14 appearances at Carpi and the goals keep coming. Pisa are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
In brief
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Squad
Pisa are still strangers to each other
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
Pisa pick somebody else ahead of Nicolás Ramírez
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 17 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Jens Odgaard 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 Pisa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match21 Nov 2026
Still nobody has beaten Pisa
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
The dugout23 Nov 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.
Loan watch23 Nov 2026
13 appearances away from home and 9 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Gregorio Calabrese was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Pisa dressing room was either.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Nicolás Ramírez 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.
Market23 Nov 2026
The name of Jens Odgaard keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Pisa say nothing, which says plenty.
Match21 Nov 2026
Point won or two lost for Pisa?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Napoli? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Pisa will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
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 Pisa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match14 Nov 2026
6 unbeaten for Pisa
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Pisa did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Nicolás Ramírez 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 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
“I watch every Pisa game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Parma runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad16 Nov 2026
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.
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Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
15 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Pisa lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 33 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match4 Nov 2026
Cup progress for Pisa
A 1‑0 win over Catania, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Match4 Nov 2026
Pisa win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 114th minute. Catania will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Age has not caught Raúl Albiol yet — 8.44
At 41 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.44 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Pisa
Mattéo Tramoni 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Pisa heard it as anything else.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Nobody could get near Lorran
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Simone Scuffet and Pisa agree another 4 years.
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Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
23 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Pisa lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Pisa will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match31 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Pisa's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Pisa has to find a result from somewhere.
Market2 Nov 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Pisa heard it as anything else.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Pisa
Jens Odgaard 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 ratings2 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.17 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
“I watch every Pisa game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Spezia runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad2 Nov 2026
5 new faces, and Pisa 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
Pisa and Sassuolo take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
30 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Pisa lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Pisa will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match24 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Pisa
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Jens Odgaard 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 Pisa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Pisa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jonathan Rodríguez 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 ratings26 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.08, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match24 Oct 2026
It needed Mattéo Tramoni to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Atalanta, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout26 Oct 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.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
39 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Pisa lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 54 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Pisa
Jens Odgaard and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.25, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Pisa
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jonathan Rodríguez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match17 Oct 2026
Pisa caught on 94 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Cagliari scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Match17 Oct 2026
It needed Jens Odgaard to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Cagliari, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout19 Oct 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.” Gregorio Calabrese chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Nicolás Ramírez
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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad12 Oct 2026
47 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Pisa lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 61 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Pisa
Jens Odgaard 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 ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match10 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Pisa against Cremonese
0‑1 to Cremonese, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jonathan Rodríguez, and the manager let it.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Pisa, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alberto Martínez and Pisa agree another 1 years.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Pisa will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Pisa
Jens Odgaard 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 ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Pisa
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jonathan Rodríguez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.06 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Loan watch5 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Spezia to sit and watch. I want to come back to Pisa and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Raúl Albiol, and the manager let it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alberto Martínez commits to Pisa for another 1 years.
Match3 Oct 2026
Pisa share the spoils with Genoa
A 1‑1 draw with Genoa leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Pisa will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market28 Sep 2026
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Pisa can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Pisa
Mattéo Tramoni 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
Juventus made Pisa work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Pisa
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jonathan Rodríguez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Nobody on the pitch touched Jens Odgaard
7.89, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Pisa had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad28 Sep 2026
11 new faces, and Pisa 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 dugout28 Sep 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Pisa will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. 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.
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 Pisa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match19 Sep 2026
Level with 93 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Pisa had all but put away. Lecce will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Pisa share the spoils with Lecce
A 1‑1 draw with Lecce leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The one goal every signing is asked about until it comes. It has come, and a press-conference question has been retired.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
Juventus next, and one man in the Pisa dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Pisa will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Pisa
Jens Odgaard 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 ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match12 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Mattéo Tramoni’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Pisa.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Jonathan Rodríguez 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 ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 8.10 — 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 dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Iván Centurión, and the manager let it.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I watch every Pisa game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Parma runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.
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Crisis
Squad7 Sep 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Pisa will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
$3.1M was the most the club would pay and Hellas Verona were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Pisa close the window on a squad of their own making
12 in and 3 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
Tempers go at Pisa
Jens Odgaard 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Pisa hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Market7 Sep 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Pisa have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match5 Sep 2026
3 matches without a goal for Pisa
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Match5 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Pisa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jonathan Rodríguez 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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Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 111 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The offer went to Hellas Verona this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Market31 Aug 2026
Ascoli come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Pisa did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Pisa
Stefano Moreo 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 ratings31 Aug 2026
Jens Odgaard beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Pisa
11 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 dugout31 Aug 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.” Gregorio Calabrese chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Nicolás Ramírez 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.
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Crisis
Squad24 Aug 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Pisa will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Padova wanted more than $7.9M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Market24 Aug 2026
Pisa say no — this time
The offer from Cagliari for Simone Scuffet 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.
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 Pisa can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 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 Pisa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Stefano Moreo 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Pisa come up short against AS Roma
AS Roma left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Lorran 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.
The dugout24 Aug 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 0‑1 Gregorio Calabrese left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 126 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market17 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done: Jens Odgaard joins from Bologna in a deal worth $17.1M. Now comes the harder part.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Pisa have gone to Padova with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Pisa
Stefano Moreo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Fiorentina have kept their man, and Pisa go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Pisa spend $17.1M on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $17.1M for Jens Odgaard, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Pisa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mehdi Léris 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.
Looking ahead17 Aug 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Arturo Calabresi’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Pisa needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Pisa would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
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Steady
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Como, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The offer went to Bologna this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Filip Stojilković and Pisa agree another 4 years.
Transfer targets10 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Pisa
Stefano Moreo 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Pisa hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Paolo Conti 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. Antonio Battaglia is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Pisa heard it as anything else.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Felipe Loyola and Pisa agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Pisa
Mattéo Tramoni 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Pisa
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Stefano Moreo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Palermo have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Francesco Coppola. The answer from Pisa has not changed — yet.
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 Pisa, another week without a signature from Stefano Moreo.