sabatini ha signed for sampdoria.
also, the dates for serie A are official. of course not the calendar (that will be towards the end of july i guess), just when it begins, ends and the breaks for national team/holidays. we will have serie A the 26 of december this year.
from the official site:
NEXT SEASON'S DATES
The first match of Serie A 2018/2019 will be the 19th of August, instead the last one will be the 26th of May 2019. There will be three midweek matchdays, wednesday 26 of September, wednesday 26 of December and wednesday 3rd of April 2019. The League will stop four times for the National matches, in particular the 9th of September, the 14th of October, November 18th and the 24 of March 2019.
The Coppa Italia will start sunday, July 29th, and will end on thursday, April 25th 2019, while the Supercoppa Italiana will be played in January 2019.