From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Squad5 Apr 2027
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Federico Ricci 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.
Match3 Apr 2027
Foggia left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout5 Apr 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Luca Crecco 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 dugout5 Apr 2027
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 1‑2 Enrico Orlando left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
Wages swallow 89% of the Sorrento income
Every club 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 it has been tried.
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Uneasy
Boardroom29 Mar 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Sorrento
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ludovico Del Sorbo is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market29 Mar 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Sorrento is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
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Player ratings29 Mar 2027
A performance of 8.17 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Denis Portanova
“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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Sorrento
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ciro Loreto was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad29 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sorrento this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market22 Mar 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mattia Esposito will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Sorrento the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad22 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Sorrento
Federico Ricci and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match20 Mar 2027
Casertana left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad22 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Sorrento
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luca Crecco was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Ninety minutes of Leonardo Capezzi at his very best
Marked 8.12. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Sorrento.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout22 Mar 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.
Looking ahead22 Mar 2027
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Andrea D'Aniello’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Sorrento needing him to play as if none of it matters.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match13 Mar 2027
Giugliano will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Sorrento were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
A brace, and Sean Parker takes the afternoon — 9.05
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Sean Parker provided it, and the 9.05 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Sorrento
Federico Ricci 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 ratings15 Mar 2027
Marked 8.52 — 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 ratings15 Mar 2027
Marked 8.35 — 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Words at Sorrento training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luca Crecco 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
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.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
The team sheet said everything about Denis Portanova
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Denis Portanova.
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Uneasy
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 36. 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Sorrento can pretend not to have heard.
Match6 Mar 2027
The drought breaks for Sorrento
10 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Cavese were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Federico Ricci and Sorrento agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Federico Ricci 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
13 clean sheets and counting. Strikers leave this ground muttering his name, which is exactly how a goalkeeper measures a good season.
Match6 Mar 2027
It finished 1‑0, and it was Diego Andrada’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Sorrento.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Sorrento
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ciro Loreto was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Marked 7.65. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
Antonio Matera gets it from the manager
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Boardroom
$978.0K taken back off the Sorrento table
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match27 Feb 2027
10 matches without a win for Sorrento
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Sorrento are no longer polite ones.
Market1 Mar 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 Mar 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Sorrento
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Match27 Feb 2027
The goals have deserted Sorrento
5 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Sorrento can tell you which week it ends in.
Market1 Mar 2027
Mario Vilardi has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Sorrento they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad1 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sorrento this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
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Squad1 Mar 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Sorrento can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match20 Feb 2027
9 matches without a win for Sorrento
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Sorrento are no longer polite ones.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market22 Feb 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Sorrento they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match20 Feb 2027
The goals have deserted Sorrento
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Sorrento can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Sorrento
Federico Ricci and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces22 Feb 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Ludovico Del Sorbo has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Market22 Feb 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Denis Portanova has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Sorrento.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
Norman Díaz 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.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Sorrento training over how hard people work
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Match
No goals between Sorrento and Monopoli
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match13 Feb 2027
No end in sight to Sorrento's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Sorrento has to find a result from somewhere.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Sorrento may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Sorrento
Federico Ricci 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.
Match13 Feb 2027
Sorrento cannot find the net
3 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
The dugout15 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Ciro Loreto 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 ratings15 Feb 2027
A mark of 7.67, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
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Uneasy
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
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.
Match6 Feb 2027
7 matches without a win for Sorrento
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Sorrento are no longer polite ones.
Market8 Feb 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Sorrento can pretend not to have heard.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Sorrento training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luca Crecco 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 dugout8 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Francesco Fusco
“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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Andrea D'Aniello 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 ratings8 Feb 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.55 on the card, and the Sorrento support went home talking about one name.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Enrico Orlando after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Defensive actions: 13, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
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Uneasy
Market1 Feb 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 Sorrento, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match30 Jan 2027
The wait goes on for Sorrento
6 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.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
The scrutiny sharpens at Sorrento
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Sorrento is running low.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Deadline passes with 0 signed and 0 gone
That is the business done at Sorrento until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Market1 Feb 2027
Only the photograph left for Mario Vilardi
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mario Vilardi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Sorrento the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad1 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sorrento this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
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The terraces1 Feb 2027
At 22 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.
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Crisis
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.66, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
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 Sorrento, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match23 Jan 2027
The wait goes on for Sorrento
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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Sorrento they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Sorrento
Federico Ricci and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match23 Jan 2027
2‑3 to Salernitana, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Luca Crecco beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Sorrento
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ciro Loreto was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
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 2‑3 Enrico Orlando left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Crisis
Match16 Jan 2027
0‑4 to Benevento, 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.
Market18 Jan 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Casertana waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Sorrento is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Match16 Jan 2027
The wait goes on for Sorrento
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.
Match16 Jan 2027
The goals have deserted Sorrento
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Sorrento can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Sorrento
Federico Ricci 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Sorrento training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luca Crecco 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 dugout18 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.
Boardroom18 Jan 2027
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.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Enrico Orlando after 0‑4, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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Crisis
Market11 Jan 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Sorrento people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market11 Jan 2027
Barnet come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Sorrento did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
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 Sorrento, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Federico Ricci 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.
Match9 Jan 2027
The goals have deserted Sorrento
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Sorrento can tell you which week it ends in.
Match9 Jan 2027
0‑1 to Catania, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market11 Jan 2027
No place for Ciro Loreto in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Ciro Loreto has his answer from Sorrento; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ciro Loreto, and the manager let it.
In brief
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Match
Halfway: Sorrento sit in position 13
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Squad
Words at Sorrento training over how hard people work
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 37. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market4 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 Sorrento, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad4 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sorrento this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
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Squad4 Jan 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Sorrento know it.
The terraces4 Jan 2027
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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Ciro Loreto 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Getting past Ludovico Del Sorbo has become the hardest job in the division
8 clean sheets and counting. Forwards used to back themselves here; now they shoot early, shoot wide, and look for somebody to blame.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Federico Marchesi, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 39. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Dec 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad28 Dec 2026
At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Sorrento
Federico Ricci and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages swallow 136% of the Sorrento income
Every club 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 it has been tried.
Match26 Dec 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Sorrento training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luca Crecco 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 dugout28 Dec 2026
Norman Díaz 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 dugout28 Dec 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 Enrico Orlando left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Upbeat
Match19 Dec 2026
The 86th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Diego Andrada decided nobody was going anywhere. Siracusa had no time left to answer.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.95, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Ciro Loreto 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.
The terraces21 Dec 2026
He is 23 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
A 2‑0 win over Siracusa, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Sorrento
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luca Crecco was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Sean Parker was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.01. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Sorrento are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
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Steady
Squad14 Dec 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.
Market14 Dec 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 Sorrento can pretend not to have heard.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Federico Ricci 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
0‑1 to Audace Cerignola, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Sorrento training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ciro Loreto 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 ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. 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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Denis Portanova
“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.
The dugout14 Dec 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Ludovico Del Sorbo signs something — a contract at Sorrento or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Upbeat
Squad7 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 Sorrento this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces7 Dec 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Federico Ricci. 1‑0 against Potenza, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Luca Crecco 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 Dec 2026
Federico Ricci was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.11. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ciro Loreto, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nolan Guérin commits to Sorrento for another 3 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Federico Marchesi is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Enrico Orlando on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Sorrento
Federico Ricci and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
134% of the income goes out in wages at Sorrento
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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Norman Díaz, and the manager let it.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Sorrento told Angelo Viscardi something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Sorrento
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jacopo Bacci was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Looking ahead30 Nov 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Mario Vilardi’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Sorrento needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Sorrento
Federico Ricci 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
A bad afternoon for Sorrento against Foggia
0‑1 to Foggia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Federico Marchesi, and the manager let it.
The dugout23 Nov 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 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Enrico Orlando to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
A promise honoured for Norman Díaz
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Sorrento told Norman Díaz something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
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Steady
Market16 Nov 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 Sorrento can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Federico Ricci 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Sorrento did not have in the autumn.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Luca Crecco 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Denis Portanova, and the manager let it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
No place in the plan for Sean Parker
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Match14 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Trapani will be the happier side with the point.
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Upbeat
Match7 Nov 2026
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.47, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match7 Nov 2026
Sorrento 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
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Leonardo Capezzi commits to Sorrento for another 3 years.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Leonardo Capezzi 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.
The terraces9 Nov 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Sorrento
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luca Crecco was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ciro Loreto, and the manager let it.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Enrico Orlando, on a 3‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
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Steady
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad2 Nov 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.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
At 22 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Sean Parker. 1‑0 against Giugliano, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages swallow 134% of the Sorrento income
Every club 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 it has been tried.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Ciro Loreto 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Sorrento
Andrea D'Aniello and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Enrico Orlando on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Ciro Loreto 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.
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Uneasy
Match24 Oct 2026
It had gone 9 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Sorrento
Federico Ricci 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 terraces26 Oct 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Three points for Sorrento, 1‑0 the final word against Cavese in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Sorrento
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luca Crecco was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Diego Andrada
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Sorrento
9 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Nobody on the pitch touched Sean Parker
7.68, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Sorrento had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
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Uneasy
Match17 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Sorrento's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Sorrento has to find a result from somewhere.
Market19 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 Sorrento, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Federico Ricci 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 ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. 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
A point taken on 85 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
The dugout19 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
It needed Norman Díaz to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Casarano, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Sorrento
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jacopo Bacci was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Uneasy
Match10 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Sorrento
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 ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad12 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 Sorrento this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
Match10 Oct 2026
Level with 91 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Sorrento had all but put away. Monopoli will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Marked 7.60 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Sorrento had the best player on the pitch.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
The one goal a footballer does not get to celebrate and does not get to forget either. His name is in the wrong column and nothing about it was meant.
Match10 Oct 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Monopoli leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Crisis
Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Sorrento
7 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
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ludovico Del Sorbo is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match3 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Sorrento
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Sorrento can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Sorrento
Federico Ricci and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
174% of the income goes out in wages at Sorrento
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.
Match3 Oct 2026
0‑1 to Picerno, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Federico Ricci did the work nobody counts — 6.76
11 combined actions and 6.76. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Luca Crecco 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.
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Uneasy
Match23 Sep 2026
The cup run ends for Sorrento
0‑1 against Potenza, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Match26 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Sorrento
6 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Sorrento
Federico Ricci 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
3 matches without a goal for Sorrento
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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Federico Marchesi, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
8 new faces, and Sorrento 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Jacopo Bacci 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 dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Enrico Orlando was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Sorrento dressing room was either.
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Crisis
Market21 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 Sorrento, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match19 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Sorrento
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Sorrento are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Federico Ricci 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 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad21 Sep 2026
200 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Norman Díaz 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 dugout21 Sep 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 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Enrico Orlando to a room that had heard them before.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Crisis
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
No thanks: Angel Yondjo rejects the move
Sorrento had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at LOSC Lille, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mattia Serra 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pietro Dalla Valle 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Sorrento
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luca Crecco was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Denis Portanova, and the manager let it.
The dugout14 Sep 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 1‑2 Enrico Orlando left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad14 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 Sorrento this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Crisis
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 13 signed and 8 gone
That is the business done at Sorrento until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Estoril Praia is saying, and nobody at Sorrento is enjoying the guessing.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Sorrento
Federico Ricci and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets7 Sep 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Sorrento training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ciro Loreto 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 dugout7 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Enrico Orlando after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Nicolò Evangelisti has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
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Crisis
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Sorrento have done the hard part with Estoril Praia, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Sorrento
Federico Ricci 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.
Transfer targets31 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
1‑2 to Catania, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout31 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
8 new faces, and Sorrento 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 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 Enrico Orlando to a room that had heard them before.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Sean Parker finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Sorrento have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Looking ahead31 Aug 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Benevento in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
“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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Zadar keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Federico Ricci 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.
Transfer targets24 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Sorrento
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luca Crecco was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Sorrento say no to the training-ground money
The plan went upstairs and came back down. Nothing about that will make a headline anywhere else, and everybody who works at the training ground will remember it for years.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
Lucko come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Sorrento did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad17 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 Sorrento this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Cosenza wanted more than $200.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Torres have kept their man, and Sorrento go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market17 Aug 2026
Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The formation has left Diego Andrada behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Sorrento will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
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Steady
Market10 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 Sorrento, and it is not being withdrawn.
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.
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
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Marco Cuccurullo and Sorrento agree another 3 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$200.0K on the table at Cosenza. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Sorrento
Federico Ricci 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Domenico Sorrentino is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nicola Trevisan is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marco Cuccurullo, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Federico Ricci and Sorrento agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Sorrento
Federico Ricci and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Sorrento training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luca Crecco 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.
Market3 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
61 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
Sorrento are still strangers to each other
6 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.