Vagnati: “It will be a competitive Turin”

There is a countdown running fast. After Raoul Bellanova, Turin is pushing to give Ivan Juric also Adrien Tameze, a midfielder that the Croatian coach got to know in depth at Verona. Yesterday morning Tameze underwent his medical tests in Turin and “they went well”, says technical director Davide Vagnati. The official announcement could arrive in the next few hours. “We are waiting to complete the last formalities… Tameze will complete the characteristics of the midfield department together with Ilic, Ricci, Linetty and Gineitis”, says Vagnati who climbed yesterday in the training camp in Pinzolo. “President Cairo is very, very motivated with the aim of wanting to make a strong and competitive Bull – continues Vagnati -. In the meantime, we have almost made two signings (the “almost” refers to Tameze’s shot in the barrel, ed) and it is there for all to see that the team is making it. As of July 22, we have already spent some money”.

the project

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Strategies, horizons, goals. The speech of the head of the grenade technical area focuses on these three aspects. Vagnati starts from a premise: “We want to make a competitive Taurus. There’s the right tension in the team because when you work to do well there must be tension, our president is very highly motivated, we don’t sleep at night to do a good job”. The work track was traced in the first two years with Juric: the property has sown for two years, now in the third year the goal is to bring the project to completion. “We are starting the season on the excellent foundations built over the last two years. We will add more work because we want to do things in a certain way and the goal, I repeat, is to build a more competitive Bull to make a good championship”.

hedgehogs

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When the discussion slips on singles, Vagnati immediately puts a full stop on the chapter relating to Samuele Ricci. “Samu is an exceptional boy, he’s a young and strong footballer, who has already made it to the national team so it’s normal that he is attracted by other clubs. There was interest in him that we didn’t take into consideration: we have a president who has no need to sell players, and what I say about Ricci also applies to Schuurs. Of course, we are always careful to evaluate everything carefully and in football you can never say what will happen in the future. But it must be clear that we don’t have any kind of need to sell.” And he adds: “Ricci is an important player for today’s Turin and for Turin in the future. We don’t want to give him away in any way, on the contrary I want to see him there in the middle together with Ilic”.

the strategies

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Back to Bellanova, the first purchase of July. “We have a work group that is always ready to seize market opportunities on the basis of needs. Raoul was an opportunity that arose immediately and we took him on without wasting time: he has quality, he is young and has an important perspective”. The Bull is very active on the market, Vagnati tells in which direction the next steps will take: “We are evaluating an attacking midfielder and another winger. But calm is needed, however, because the transfer market is long”. He opens a parenthesis on Pellegri: “He has great potential. If in the next month and a half he makes it all the way, we’ll be happy and we’ll have the pair of centre-forwards ready. We hope so.” He confesses that “Vlasic is a player we are evaluating”. And he recounts how even for Singo there was “some interest, we are evaluating the best thing for everyone with his agents. Singo has earned everything with his work”. Before the goodbyes, the closure is on Rodriguez who has an agreement that will expire in June 2024: “We will try to extend his contract”.