Bosnia-Italy, Bastoni disaster: what is happening now on the market between Inter and Barcelona

Sometimes, perhaps, opposing a negative vortex that appears too complex to counter becomes simply impossible. When Murphy’s Law decides to kick in, everything that can go wrong, does. Yet, looking carefully at the images of Alessandro Bastoni’s expulsion against Bosnia which condemned Italy to a clearly decisive numerical inferiority, the feeling that an alternative solution certainly existed grows ever stronger. Read better in advance, try to counter without intervening with all that impetuosity, simply hope for one of the many miracles that Gigio Donnarumma has historically become accustomed to and confirmed even later during the final in Zenica. But no.

But let’s go beyond technical or tactical choices. Bastoni’s season, the annus horribilis of the Nerazzurri defender, the nightmare moment of the former Atalanta player. It’s all there: depicted in photos, in the snapshot that better than any analysis tells the story of today’s Bastoni: attacked, expelled, disconsolate, disoriented. Alone. It would have been perfect medicine, getting the World Cup pass as a protagonist. One of those painkillers that make you forget every ailment. Even a sufficient performance from the Nerazzurri defender, combined with the passage of the next round, would certainly have contributed to shelving the discussed simulation on Kalulu in Inter-Juve, the incorrect celebration after the red card waved to the Frenchman, the boos in the Italian stadiums motivated by the (double) unsportsmanlike gesture. But the epilogue has been reversed, and now profoundly different scenarios could open up.

doubtful future

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Paradoxically, the most difficult moment comes now. How do you archive such a decisive expulsion? How can we forget Italy’s third consecutive absence from a World Cup, to which we contributed negatively with an absurd intervention? Here, in this sense the work of Inter and Chivu will be fundamental in order not to risk losing one of the best Italian defenders until a few months ago. In fact, nothing changes for society. The anti-Barcelona valuation was built around 70 million. Marotta and Ausilio can also hope that there has been a sudden blackout in the Catalonia area so as not to affect the offers that will arrive for Bastoni, but the performance of the Italian defender has inevitably reached the whole world. And, above all, it will be necessary to understand the psychological consequences that Bastoni risks bringing with him in his suitcase from Zenica. If the simulation on Kalulu had sent him amid storms and whistles, the expulsion in the decisive final against Bosnia risks condemning him to a storm. At that point, perhaps, Barcelona could become the perfect island to escape to.