Pisa U20

4 Oct 2026
Sunday
Process
9 Edition

The Pisa Sentinel

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

75 days out for Antonio Caracciolo after a fracture

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.

Market

Felipe Loyola has his eye on Europe

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.

Squad

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.

Match

Pisa find a way past Juventus

Juventus made Pisa work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

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 ratings

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.

Squad

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 dugout

Gregorio Calabrese: “That is the standard”

“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 dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Juan Guillermo Cuadrado

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.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Pisa Sentinel

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

85 days out for Antonio Caracciolo after a fracture

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 ratings

Jens Odgaard was unplayable

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.

Squad

Mattéo Tramoni 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.

Match

Two points walk out of the ground

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 dugout

Filip Stojilković 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.

Match

Pisa share the spoils with Lecce

A 1‑1 draw with Lecce leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Gregorio Calabrese on the draw

“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.

Squad

Andrea Petagna scores his first for Pisa

The one goal every signing is asked about until it comes. It has come, and a press-conference question has been retired.

Looking ahead

Juan Guillermo Cuadrado faces his old club

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.

In brief

7 Edition

The Pisa Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Antonio Caracciolo out for 95 days

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.

Squad

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 ratings

Jens Odgaard runs at them all day

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.

Match

Mattéo Tramoni sends Pisa past Parma

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.

Squad

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 ratings

A masterclass from Mattéo Tramoni

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 dugout

No hiding place for Iván Centurión

“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 watch

Daniel Denoon counts the days

“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 dugout

Gregorio Calabrese: “That is the standard”

“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.

In brief

6 Edition

The Pisa Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

103 days out for Antonio Caracciolo after a fracture

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 targets

Too dear: Pisa walk away from Tobias Slotsager

$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.

Boardroom

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.

Squad

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.

Market

Antonio Caracciolo wants to know where this is going

“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.

Market

Cagliari watching Simone Scuffet

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Pisa have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Match

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.

Match

Udinese take the points off Pisa

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

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.

In brief

5 Edition

The Pisa Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Antonio Caracciolo breaks a bone — 111 days out

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.

Squad

Simone Scuffet keeps Pisa in it on his own

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 targets

Pisa bid $3.1M for Tobias Slotsager

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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 ratings

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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 dugout

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.

In brief

4 Edition

The Pisa Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Antonio Caracciolo out for 118 days

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 targets

Pisa baulk at the price for Giovanni Giunti

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.

Market

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.

Market

Rosen Bozhinov hands in a written request

“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.

Squad

Mattéo Tramoni 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.

Squad

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.

Match

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 dugout

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 dugout

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.

In brief

3 Edition

The Pisa Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Antonio Caracciolo breaks a bone — 126 days out

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.

Market

Pisa sign Jens Odgaard for $17.1M

The paperwork is done: Jens Odgaard joins from Bologna in a deal worth $17.1M. Now comes the harder part.

Transfer targets

An offer of $960.0K for Giovanni Giunti

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.

Squad

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 targets

Pisa rebuffed over Abdelhamid Sabiri

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 terraces

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.

Squad

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 ahead

Arturo Calabresi goes back to face AS Roma

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.

Squad

Iván Centurión remains an outsider

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.

In brief

2 Edition

The Pisa Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Jesús Rodríguez due for a Pisa medical

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 targets

Pisa bid $17.1M for Jens Odgaard

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.

Market

Pisa turn down Palermo for Francesco Coppola

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Filip Stojilković signs on for more

“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 targets

Reggiana tell Pisa: Andrija Novaković is not for sale

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.

Squad

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.

Market

Juan Guillermo Cuadrado wants to know where this is going

“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.

Market

Pisa promote Paolo Conti from within

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.

Market

One of our own: Antonio Battaglia joins the Pisa first team

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.

In brief

1 Edition

The Pisa Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Felipe Loyola raises the bar for Pisa

“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.

Squad

Felipe Loyola stays put

“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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Market

Palermo join the queue for Francesco Coppola

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.

Market

Still no ink between Pisa and Stefano Moreo

“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.

In brief