From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad5 Oct 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 Salernitana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Leonards Čevers is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Facundo 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 160% of everything Salernitana 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.89, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match3 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Galo Capomaggio. 2‑0 against Casertana, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings5 Oct 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mattia Tascone, and the manager let it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Shots: 8, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
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Steady
Match23 Sep 2026
Pergolettese go through and Salernitana go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Match26 Sep 2026
2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Facundo Lescano will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Salernitana escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 11 of the 30 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A first appearance Christian Petraglia will want to forget — 5.30
Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.30, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Luca Villa 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 Salernitana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Filippo Vari is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Salernitana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mirko Antonucci 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Galo Capomaggio, and the manager let it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Andrea Ferraris at his very best
Marked 8.03. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Salernitana.
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Upbeat
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 Salernitana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Salernitana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luca Villa 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 ratings21 Sep 2026
21 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Facundo Lescano
“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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Three points for Salernitana, 1‑0 the final word against Cavese in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 8.42 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings21 Sep 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 watch21 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Crotone to sit and watch. I want to come back to Salernitana and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
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Steady
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.76 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Salernitana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Facundo Lescano 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Facundo Lescano’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Salernitana.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Siracusa to sit and watch. I want to come back to Salernitana and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Eddy Cabianca, and the manager let it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
Luca Villa 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Mirko Antonucci 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.
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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Lucas signs for Salernitana to fix the gap everybody could see
There is a particular relief in a club addressing the thing its own crowd has been shouting about. Lucas arrives for exactly that job, and now he has to do it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 7.43. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Guilherme 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match5 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Monopoli will be the happier side with the point.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
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.
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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 Salernitana, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Luca Villa 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mirko Antonucci, and the manager let it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Guilherme
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A mark of 7.98, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Match29 Aug 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Picerno leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
Matteo Arena 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 Salernitana can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Facundo 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Achille Piazza has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market24 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gianluca Monteleone is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market24 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Marco Baldi has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Mirko Antonucci 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Mattia Tascone pulls a muscle — 15 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 15 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Salernitana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Facundo Lescano 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Eliomar
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Salernitana will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Market17 Aug 2026
Eliomar is 39 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
Market17 Aug 2026
Experience through the door at Salernitana
Guilherme arrives at 38 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Galo Capomaggio commits to Salernitana for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Mirko Antonucci 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Luca Villa 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.
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 months and counting on Luca Villa
Still no offer on the table, and Luca Villa’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Market10 Aug 2026
Carpi are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Salernitana will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Roberto Inglese and Salernitana agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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 Salernitana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Facundo 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Salernitana have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
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
49 months and counting on Kees de Boer
Still no offer on the table, and Kees de Boer’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.