From our football correspondent
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.
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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.
From our football correspondent
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.
From our football correspondent
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.