From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match30 Jan 2027
No end in sight to Pisa's wait for a win
10 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Pisa has to find a result from somewhere.
Market1 Feb 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
The scrutiny sharpens at Pisa
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Pisa is running low.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Simone Scuffet: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Pisa have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market1 Feb 2027
Rafiu Durosinmi 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.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Pisa
Lloyd Kelly 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“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.
Match30 Jan 2027
A bad afternoon for Pisa against Lecce
0‑2 to Lecce, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Uneasy
Match23 Jan 2027
No end in sight to Pisa's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Pisa has to find a result from somewhere.
Market25 Jan 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Pisa, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Lloyd Kelly 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 ratings25 Jan 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.90, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
A performance of 8.47 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Shots: 10. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
Wages eat 100% of everything Pisa earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Adrian Šemper lets one through his hands
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Match23 Jan 2027
Pisa share the spoils with Parma
A 2‑2 draw with Parma leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Uneasy
Match16 Jan 2027
The wait goes on for Pisa
8 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.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Pisa
Lloyd Kelly 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 ratings18 Jan 2027
Marked 8.17 — 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“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.
Match16 Jan 2027
Honours even between Pisa and Udinese
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Shots: 6, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Lloyd Kelly has company in his position
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Lloyd Kelly keeps the shirt for now, at Pisa's convenience rather than his own.
Market18 Jan 2027
Pisa have made Stefano Moreo available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Crisis
Market11 Jan 2027
“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.
Match9 Jan 2027
7 matches without a win for Pisa
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Pisa are no longer polite ones.
Squad11 Jan 2027
There were 7 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Pisa get their man
The chase for Francesco Di Mariano ended with $1.7M changing hands and Padova out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Market11 Jan 2027
Pisa get their man
The chase for Christian Tommasini ended with $910.0K changing hands and Foggia out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Lloyd Kelly 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A season average of 7.45 with 10 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Lloyd Kelly 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.
Match9 Jan 2027
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Uneasy
Match2 Jan 2027
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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Pisa
Lloyd Kelly 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 ratings4 Jan 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.77, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
A performance of 8.42 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Calvin Stengs, and the manager let it.
Loan watch4 Jan 2027
The goals keep arriving from Nicholas Bonfanti’s exile
12 goals in 18 games at Mantova — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Pisa updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Match2 Jan 2027
It needed Samuel Iling-Junior to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against AS Roma, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Shots: 10. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Shots: 6. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
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Crisis
Squad28 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Pisa may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match26 Dec 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Lloyd Kelly 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.
Match26 Dec 2026
A bad afternoon for Pisa against Bologna
2‑4 to Bologna, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad28 Dec 2026
9 goals and a season average of 7.41. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
173% of the income goes out in wages at Pisa
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
A performance of 8.74 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Michel Aebischer, and the manager let it.
Loan watch28 Dec 2026
The goals keep arriving from Nicholas Bonfanti’s exile
11 goals in 17 games at Mantova — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Pisa updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
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Crisis
Match19 Dec 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Pisa
Lloyd Kelly 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
A bad afternoon for Pisa against Como
3‑4 to Como, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.70, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
A performance of 8.66 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Mattéo Tramoni
7 goals and a season average of 7.37 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.31, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad21 Dec 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.
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Uneasy
Match9 Dec 2026
The small margins put Pisa out
Out, 3‑4 to Bologna, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Defensive actions: 20. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Marked 8.33 — 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.
Squad14 Dec 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.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.67 on the card, and the Pisa support went home talking about one name.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ebenezer Akinsanmiro, and the manager let it.
Match12 Dec 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 Fiorentina? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
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Steady
Market7 Dec 2026
Adrian Šemper 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Simone Scuffet: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Pisa have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Pisa
Lloyd Kelly 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
Inter take the points off Pisa
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad7 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.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.61, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.30, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad7 Dec 2026
6 goals and a season average of 7.32. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Loan watch7 Dec 2026
14 appearances at Mantova and the goals keep coming. Pisa are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Upbeat
Squad30 Nov 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Pisa have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 28 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Lloyd Kelly 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
207% of the income goes out in wages at Pisa
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Marked 8.95 — 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
Pisa get the job done against Lazio
A 1‑0 win over Lazio, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Michel Aebischer, and the manager let it.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Mattéo Tramoni
5 goals and a season average of 7.27 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Shots: 7. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Pisa
Lloyd Kelly 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
A bad afternoon for Pisa against Napoli
1‑3 to Napoli, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.33 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad23 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
12 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 terraces23 Nov 2026
Everybody has an opinion about Adrian Šemper
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Shots: 6. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
A mark of 5.75 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
Lloyd Kelly 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 ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad16 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.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.24 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match14 Nov 2026
Pisa and Torino take a point apiece
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
There was no pressure on him and nowhere he had to be. Pisa lost a goal to a decision that took half a second and will be discussed all week.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
The goals keep arriving from Nicholas Bonfanti’s exile
8 goals in 11 games at Mantova — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Pisa updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Pisa lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Shots: 7, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
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Upbeat
Match4 Nov 2026
Cup progress for Pisa
A 2‑0 win over Vicenza, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Match7 Nov 2026
3‑0, and Rafiu Durosinmi took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Pisa tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Defensive actions: 32, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 28 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad9 Nov 2026
There were 6 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
Pisa cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Pisa
Lloyd Kelly 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 have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A performance of 9.26 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Uneasy
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market2 Nov 2026
Rafiu Durosinmi 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Lloyd Kelly 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 ratings2 Nov 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.55, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match31 Oct 2026
Three points for Pisa, 2‑1 the final word against Sassuolo in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
207% of the income goes out in wages at Pisa
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.80, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad2 Nov 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Adrian Šemper knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Mattéo Tramoni
5 goals and a season average of 7.25 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
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Uneasy
Market26 Oct 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
There were 7 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
5 matches without a win for Pisa
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Pisa are no longer polite ones.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Pisa
Lloyd Kelly 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 ratings26 Oct 2026
Marked 8.73 — 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 ratings26 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.31, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad26 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Honours even between Pisa and Atalanta
3‑3, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Crisis
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. 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
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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Lloyd Kelly 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Rafiu Durosinmi scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Cagliari, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Marked 8.89 — 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 ratings19 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.02 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad19 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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Shots: 8. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Loan watch19 Oct 2026
8 appearances at Mantova and the goals keep coming. Pisa are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Crisis
Match10 Oct 2026
Pisa taken apart
0‑3 to Cremonese, 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Pisa
Lloyd Kelly 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.
Squad12 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.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
Doors closed at Pisa
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Simone Scuffet knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Simone Scuffet trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Player ratings12 Oct 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A mark of 4.67 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Shots: 7. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Shots: 8. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
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Crisis
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Lloyd Kelly 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Pisa come up short against Genoa
Genoa left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 359% of everything Pisa earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad5 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Marked 8.45 — 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 ratings5 Oct 2026
Shots: 12, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The award goes to Mattéo Tramoni, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The captaincy has been taken off Simone Scuffet. Pisa will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
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Crisis
Squad28 Sep 2026
There were 8 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.
Squad28 Sep 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Adrian Šemper
“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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Sep 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.
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Steady
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 34 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 29, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 24. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 9.08 — 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Lecce made Pisa work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad21 Sep 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.
Squad21 Sep 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.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Player ratings14 Sep 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Stefano Moreo
“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.
Match12 Sep 2026
It needed Filip Stojilković to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Parma, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Shots: 7, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A new face in his position, and Felipe Loyola suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Pisa have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
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Steady
Match5 Sep 2026
No mercy from Pisa
Udinese will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Pisa were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 32, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Market7 Sep 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.92, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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.
Squad7 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
288% of the income goes out in wages at Pisa
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad7 Sep 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.80 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Uneasy
Market31 Aug 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.
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.
Squad31 Aug 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 Aug 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 8.28 — 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Pisa and AC Milan take a point apiece
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad31 Aug 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Pisa have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 4.53, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
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Crisis
Market24 Aug 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.
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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match22 Aug 2026
Rafiu Durosinmi scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to AS Roma, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad24 Aug 2026
41 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market24 Aug 2026
Leonardo Mendicino is 20, and Pisa have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Player ratings24 Aug 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.
Squad24 Aug 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 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.
Market17 Aug 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Samuele Angori
“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
Market10 Aug 2026
Pisa get their man
The chase for Omari Forson ended with $1.6M changing hands and Monza out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Rafiu Durosinmi and Pisa agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad10 Aug 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Samuele Angori's contract
48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
Adrian Šemper 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Idrissa Touré and Pisa agree another 4 years.
Squad3 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Idrissa Touré's contract
49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Rafiu Durosinmi asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.