Monthly Archives: May 2020
Pecoraro: ‘Inter-Juve VAR file missing’
Pecoraro: ‘Inter-Juve VAR file missing’
The former FIGC prosecutor Giuseppe Pecoraro reveals the VAR audio from a controversial Inter-Juventus incident in 2018 went missing. ‘We need more transparency.’ This was a decisive match in the 2017-18 Scudetto race, with Maurizio Sarri’s Napoli watching on as Juve came from behind to beat Inter 3-2 at San Siro on April 28, 2018. […]
Liverpool leading for Koulibaly
Liverpool leading for Koulibaly
Napoli will not accept less than €100m for Kalidou Koulibaly, claim reports, with Liverpool leading the race ahead of Manchester United and Real Madrid. According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, the Partenopei are prepared to consider offers for the Senegal international this summer. However, their asking price will not go under €100m, which is already […]
Ancelotti: ‘Milan don’t fear foreigners’
Ancelotti: ‘Milan don’t fear foreigners’
Carlo Ancelotti has assured that Milan are only ‘afraid of bad coaches, not foreign ones’, amidst Ralf Rangnick speculation. Rangnick has been heavily linked with leading a youth revolution at Milan this summer, but talk of his appointment has not gone down universally well with fans. “We met when I was in Germany,” continued Ancelotti […]
Official: Sassuolo to resume training
Official: Sassuolo to resume training
Sassuolo have become the first Serie A side to announce they will return to training on Monday. The region of Emilia-Romagna announced earlier this week that its professional clubs could resume sporting activity, in compliance with social distancing. Although Parma and SPAL are both preferring to wait for the FIGC and government to reach an […]
Napoli allowed to train in centre
Napoli allowed to train in centre
Napoli have permission to begin training at their centre from Monday May 4, announced the regional authorities. The latest Government decree in the coronavirus pandemic response allows running in parks from May 4, but not athletes in team sports to enter a training ground until May 18. However, as the pandemic is largely localised in […]
Alessio: ‘Between Conte and Juve…’
Alessio: ‘Between Conte and Juve…’
Former assistant manager Angelo Alessio covers Antonio Conte’s decision to walk away from Juventus, taking the Inter job and why Maurizio Sarri ‘can only get stronger.’ Alessio was most recently in Scotland as manager of Kilmarnock, but was sacked in December. He is most famous as the assistant to Conte at Juventus from 2011-14, an […]
Chelsea ‘clearly ahead’ in race to sign Napoli defender
Chelsea ‘clearly ahead’ in race to sign Napoli defender
Chelsea boss Frank Lampard has largely spent this season rotating his four current centre back options, failing to settle with a regular two. This would suggest that he is quite unsure on which defenders he rates the most in his current squad, with none of them really having great seasons so far. All of them […]
SPAL not resuming training
SPAL not resuming training
SPAL have followed Parma in announcing that they will not resume training on Monday, despite permission from the Emilia-Romagna region. The move came as a surprise, given it directly contradicted the government’s order for only individual sports to return on May 4. However, SPAL said in a statement: “First-team activity will remain suspended, pending the health […]