Transfer market: Gomez and Ordonez reinforce Bologna

When a tactic works, it is repeated. When an early game bears future fruit, well, it’s better to take a step first. And Bologna, in this, has a very specific history. And it succeeded on two occasions with Dominguez (Nicolas, in January 2020) and Santiago Castro in January 2024. Precisely for this reason the Saputo club through director Sartori and director Di Vaio has had its eyes, for some time, on Christian Ordonez and Valentin Gomez, two twenty-year-olds from Velez Sarsfield. He will decide shortly whether to sink the blow for January and calculating future transfers in June, more or less possible farewells. In practice: an “I’ll take it now to have it – set up and ready – in June”: a la Santiago Castro; and if it integrates first, well, even better. But the tactic is this, act first to undermine the competition by fishing in Argentina, a reliable land that has always been reliable. “We will be careful on the market, just like last year. If there is the possibility of bringing forward an operation linked to some prospective players, we will evaluate it. Just like what happened with Castro”: this is the reflection expressed by sporting director Marco Di Vaio before Bologna-Verona. Clear indication of work already carried out. Argentine thoughts in action, regardless.

central area

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In 2020, in January, from Argentina and again from Velez Sarsfield, Bologna signed Nicolas Dominguez, a central column for three years until his sale to Nottingham Forest in the summer of 2023; at the beginning of 2024, still in the market staged in the first month, Bologna – with Di Vaio’s own blitz – went to get Santiago Castro again from Velez, who today is a priority player after six months of apprenticeship also behind Zirkzee. I’m playing in advance. And with Velez as the privileged reservoir of a country, Argentina, in which to trust. And it’s all a question of “anticipation”, of months to give to the players to land in the best possible way in the new world (Serie A), the so-called acclimatization that Benjamin Dominguez, taken last summer (from Gimnasia La Plata) , he absorbed in a short time given how much he is making. Here: this premise is useful to understand the moves and prospects of Bologna who in Velez Sarsfield have in fact spotted two prospective players, a right-footed central midfielder (more of a defender than a player) and an elegant central defender with a left foot, namely Christian Ordonez , 20, and Valentin Gomez, 21.

I would like Europe

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These are two prospects also followed by other Italian clubs, two guys who have just won the Argentine championship (after 11 years) but lost the “Trofeo dei Campeones” against Estudiantes. Bologna has an emissary present there and the two profiles have been followed for some time: the cost is not prohibitive (around 10 million Gomez, between 5 and 7 Ordonez). Question, why are those two roles being monitored? Simple: in the future Bologna thinks that Lucumi (left-footed) could have a big market and that something in between (also due to Freuler’s age, in any case among the Untouchables) will have to be taken into consideration. Maybe even for January if a midfielder (Nikola Moro, wanted by Hajduk Split) were to leave. “The reality – said Valentin Gomez – is that I would like to continue growing in European football and see if this possibility exists, if any club is willing to come and take me”. Bologna (with Lazio and Inter) is one of these.

gonzalez and idzes

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The observation network of director Sartori and director Di Vaio certainly does not end here: in midfield, Santiago Gonzalez from Tigre (central midfielder, 21 years old) has also been popular for some time, while in the central defense area three players have been examined in recent months . From Oliver Provstgaard (Velije, Denmark), Ange Ahoussou (Ivorian from Pau) and recently Jay Idzes, Dutch naturalized Indonesian, central defender and, if necessary, also in midfield. It’s the time of rumors and names (to which is added Nicolò Bertola, 21, Spezia) but the Argentine market remains privileged.