Gasperini guarantees profits for Atalanta
Atalanta spent just €93m for their current squad sitting fourth in Serie A, qualifying for the quarter-finals in the Champions League and making a profit of €71.82m on player trading…
Atalanta spent just €93m for their current squad sitting fourth in Serie A, qualifying for the quarter-finals in the Champions League and making a profit of €71.82m on player trading…
AIA President Marcello Nicchi has revealed that the referees may be forced to resume the campaign without VAR. The Referees’ Association chief has explained why VAR might not take part…
FIGC President Gabriele Gravina has confirmed that ending the Serie A season in September or October is a ‘possibility’. Gravina would like the campaign to resume at the end of…
Clubs are expected to begin negotiating individually for wage cuts during the coronavirus lockdown, as the Players’ Association President Damiano Tommasi warns “we must protect those with lower salaries.” A…
Sampdoria boss Claudio Ranieri has rejected the idea of Serie A being played at neutral venues. “Either everyone resumes or no-one does.” Several members of Samp’s first team were diagnosed…
Fiorentina have announced that players Patrick Cutrone, German Pezzella and Dusan Vlahovic “are no longer positive for COVID-19.” The three players were among several figures at the club to test…
Players returning after testing positive for COVID-19 will require extensive testing, as the CONI chief medic warns coronavirus can damage the heart as well as lungs. Italy seems to have…
When players do return to training, they will be rigorously tested and divided into three groups: positive, immune and not immune for COVID-19. The number of new cases, deaths and…
If Serie A does resume on May 20, the plan would be to conclude the season on July 2, playing the outstanding Week 25 fixtures first, then the remaining 12…
Francesco Totti rues how Luciano Spalletti became a ‘different’ person, hopes Lazio ‘suffer a blackout’ and admits Sampdoria ‘wanted me at all costs’ in 2017. Totti famously fell out with…
Austrian Hermann Felsner made a great start for foreign coaches in Italy when he won the 1936-37 Coppa Italia, but since then no-one has come close to Sven-Göran Eriksson. Throughout…
Eusebio Di Francesco expected a very different season but reveals that he currently ‘studies English’ and remains ‘open to any kind of new experience’. After helping establish Sassuolo in Serie…
There are discussions for a ‘solidarity fund’ created from docking the wages of some Serie A and B players to help cover salaries of Serie C squads. Calls are growing…
Plans are taking shape for how to get Serie A going again in May or June, with blanket coronavirus tests for squads, quarantine periods for those coming from abroad and…
The number of deaths in Italy from coronavirus remains relatively stable, with 760 over the last 24 hours, reaching 13,915 in total. Experts stated over the last few days that…
Players’ Association President Damiano Tommasi insists cutting wages is “not a priority” right now, but rather a protocol for returning to duty and dealing with contracts if the season goes…
Minister for Sport Vincenzo Spadafora announced there is “an extraordinary plan for sport to resume from May,” as Italy eye an easing of lockdown measures due to the coronavirus pandemic.…
Sampdoria patron Massimo Ferrero has joined the debate about the possible resumption and claimed the players ‘are not machines to be turned off and on again’. The Blucerchiati have been…
A new Government decree in Italy has banned training in sporting facilities for professionals until at least April 13 due to the coronavirus lockdown, effectively ending the debate between clubs.…
A leading epidemiologist running one of Italy’s coronavirus taskforces warns it is “difficult” to see sport resume in Italy before the summer, although self-isolation prevented “tens of thousands more deaths.”…