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Crisis
Match17 Oct 2026
Nowhere to hide for Pisa
0‑3 against Cagliari, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. 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
No end in sight to Pisa's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Pisa has to find a result from somewhere.
Match17 Oct 2026
Pisa cannot find the net
6 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.
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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Juan Carlos Lescano 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Appearance number 100 for Emanuele Rao
100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
Boardroom19 Oct 2026
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 dugout19 Oct 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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Uneasy
Match10 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Pisa
5 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Pisa
5 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Pisa can tell you which week it ends in.
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: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout12 Oct 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Pisa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. İsak Vural 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 ratings12 Oct 2026
Marked 7.57 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Pisa had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout12 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.” Edoardo Giordano chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout12 Oct 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.
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Crisis
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. 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.
Match3 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.
Squad5 Oct 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Pisa
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Pisa can tell you which week it ends in.
Match3 Oct 2026
Genoa take the points off Pisa
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Pisa
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Arturo Calabresi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Pisa are still strangers to each other
9 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Simone Scuffet named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Simone Scuffet is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
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Crisis
Squad28 Sep 2026
There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match26 Sep 2026
Pisa taken apart
0‑3 to Juventus, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Market28 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Pisa, and it is not being withdrawn.
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
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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Pisa
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Juan Carlos Lescano was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Sep 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.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
Inquest at Pisa
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Loan watch28 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Parma to sit and watch. I want to come back to Pisa and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 6 matches say the rest.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 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.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. 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
İsak Vural 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.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Cesena to sit and watch. I want to come back to Pisa and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 6 matches say the rest.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 7.44. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Filippo Pittarello, and the manager let it.
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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
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Steady
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
The clock did what Empoli would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrea Petagna, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Cristian Barsacchi, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Arturo Calabresi 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 dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Edoardo Giordano was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Pisa dressing room was either.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. 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
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 Parma? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Looking ahead14 Sep 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Juan Guillermo Cuadrado’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.
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
20 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
$5.8M on the table at Empoli. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 10 in, 3 out at Pisa
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 10 arrived, 3 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
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.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
One of their own: Lorran
He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match5 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Filip Stojilković. 1‑0 against Udinese, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Juan Carlos Lescano 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 ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 8.08 — 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.
In brief
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Squad
9 new faces, and Pisa are still learning each other
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Raúl Albiol
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The dugout
Edoardo Giordano: “That is the standard”
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Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
28 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Empoli have kept their man, and Pisa go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Lorran’s goal not enough for Pisa
Lorran scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to AC Milan, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Juan Guillermo Cuadrado, and the manager let it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Pisa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. İsak Vural 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 dugout31 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Edoardo Giordano to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
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Crisis
Squad24 Aug 2026
35 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Pisa get their man
The chase for Jens Odgaard ended with $17.2M changing hands and Bologna out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Market24 Aug 2026
Pisa say no — this time
The offer from Parma for Simone Canestrelli 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
$100.0K was the most the club would pay and Union Brescia 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.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Pisa spend $17.2M on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $17.2M for Jens Odgaard, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
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.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
42 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.
Market17 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.
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
Pisa asked and Alcione Milano said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad17 Aug 2026
47 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Parma did not take him to make up a number: they want him playing. For Francesco Coppola that is worth more than another season of watching from Pisa's bench, and everyone involved has said so out loud.
Market17 Aug 2026
Pisa have made Rosen Bozhinov available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Steady
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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Como wanted more than $16.0M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Market10 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Parma have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Simone Canestrelli. The answer from Pisa has not changed — yet.
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.
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. Emanuele Medici 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
One of our own: Filippo Bosco joins the Pisa first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Filippo Bosco is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Pisa
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Juan Carlos Lescano was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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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
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
7 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.