Carlos Cuesta García will remain at Parma heading into the 2025-26 season, the club confirmed, preserving the managerial continuity that has shaped a difficult but stabilising campaign for the gialloblù — and with it, the immediate future of Parma midfielder Gabriel Strefezza Rebelato.
The confirmation matters for Strefezza because it removes one layer of uncertainty from a player who has contributed modestly but consistently under Cuesta's system. At 29, Strefezza is not a player who can afford a prolonged reset under a new coaching staff. A managerial change at this stage of the season would have forced him to re-establish himself; instead, he enters the summer with a known framework and a coach who has already integrated him into the squad.
His 2025-26 numbers tell the story of a player used selectively rather than centrally. Across 14 appearances, Strefezza has contributed two goals and two assists — a return that reflects involvement without dominance. His average rating of 6.90 suggests reliability without decisive impact, the profile of a squad player who does not lose games but rarely wins them on his own. Parma's season as a whole reinforces that reading: 13th in Serie A with 42 points, a side that has drawn 12 times and scored only 27 goals, the shape of a team that grinds rather than creates.
Cuesta himself arrives in this role with an unusual biography. His time as assistant at Arsenal before taking the Parma job makes him one of the more analytically oriented coaches in Serie A, and his decision to stay — confirmed amid a summer of movement across the division — signals genuine investment in the project. For Strefezza, that investment is a quiet but meaningful endorsement of the squad he is part of.
The club has also moved to strengthen, with Benja Cremaschi reportedly set to join permanently from Inter Miami for €4m. That arrival will increase competition in the attacking midfield areas where Strefezza operates. His place in the squad for 2025-26 is not threatened, but it is no longer unchallenged.