Transfer market: seven hits in seven days? The great maneuvers in progress

Seven days and maybe seven shots. That’s what we hope to see in the last week of the repair market. A session so far conditioned by the heavy effects of Covid-19 on corporate coffers, by scarce liquidity, by the massive and obligatory use of loans. Yet you have to go far enough back in the years to find an ending that promises to be so compelling. Because the tournament after 23 days is still open, both in the upper areas for the Scudetto and in Europe and in the queue. It will be seven days in which the right deal could really shift the “balance”.

Time travel

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And a quick time travel to some blazing January can confirm this feeling. This is what happened with Pandev (2010) who gives the last system to Mourinho’s Inter for the Treble, Van Bommel (2011) is placed in the middle of the field and helps Allegri to win a scudetto, Salah (2015) drags Fiorentina in Europa League, Pepito Rossi (2007) saves Parma by now condemned to relegation; further back, the Japanese Nakata (2000) is decisive for the title of Roma in the head-to-head with Juventus.

Great maneuvers

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This time, however, it will be mainly Inter, Juventus and AC Milan and will ignite the last days of the negotiations. Today the Inter Zhang-Marotta-Inzaghi summit to decide whether to agree with Caicedo, a trusted man of the coach at the time of Lazio. Also for Juventus the focus is on the attack: the big hunt for the viola Vlahovic can come to the fore in these hours, the second choice is the French Martial; Allegri needs a tip to continue the Champions race but first he will have to sell Ufo Ramsey and perhaps also Arthur, with the possible advance of the start of Rovella’s apprenticeship at Allegri’s court. Great maneuvers also in the Milan home: Lazetic will replace Pellegri, a piece in defense is missing: Botman is the dream, more likely it will be a young man the gift for Pioli. Who perhaps hopes for a Tomori-bis: from a hopeful loan to a very titular bargain in a few months.

Other scenarios

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And then? Atalanta, having closed the entry market well in advance with Boga taken on Christmas day, evaluates a possible sale of Gosens to Newcastle, but the offertona will have to arrive. Lazio is blocked by the liquidity index and Mourinho expects Kamara as a last gift. At the end of Salerno there will be a revolution and an eye on what will happen under the Lanterna: Genoa and Sampdoria need a shock. Have fun.