Something is wrong among the reasons given by the Spanish medical staff
SASSARI. A couple of months to dream it, a few weeks to make it happen, just 24 hours to live it before seeing it turn into a nightmare. Marco Spissu’s transfer to the Spanish league, at the court of Unicaja Malaga, lasted as long as the blink of an eye. The aftermath of this bad story, however, could last much longer.
The bomb. The Sassari player did not pull it, but the management of the Andalusian club, which in the late evening of Thursday hastily issued a note in which it communicated the negative outcome of the routine medical examinations carried out by the player just a few hours before and the consequent forfeiture of the contract just signed. Dinamo, according to rumors, would have been notified of the facts only at the same time as the release of the press release on the green-and-white social networks.
The cause. In the absence of further details, the assumptions about the causes and the player’s health have obviously run after each other. And inflate. From the most obvious (“the injury remedied in the pre-Olympic”) to the extreme ones (“he could have a heart problem”). None of this: yesterday, the local newspaper Cope heard the orthopedist Vicente de la Varga, who explained how the cause of the lack of medical clearance is to be found in a problem of early hip arthrosis, known as “Femoral acetabular conflict”. «Often – said the specialist – this type of pathology does not give symptoms and are confused with injuries to the adductors or buttocks that are frequent in the world of sport and when you want to realize that the wear is already too advanced. Surely so far he will not have given chronic symptoms, otherwise he could not play. Unicaja did well, this can be a time bomb, because this injury does not know where it will end ».
Accounts that do not add up. Yesterday Marco Spissu was joined in Malaga by his agent, Matteo Comellini (Sigma Sports), considered one of the top agents in Europe. A meeting with the Unicaja management is scheduled today. But in the meantime the feeling is gaining ground that someone in Andalusia has played the game of three cards. First of all due to the fact that Spissu’s general physical conditions are excellent, as underlined by the Fip press release (reproduced on the side), which recalls how the player at the time of departure for the Olympics was subjected to thorough medical checks that highlighted the complete recovery from the injury suffered in Hamburg two weeks earlier. Secondly, because even the timing seems to convince very little: why have no further investigations been made – both for scruple and prudence – and the Malaga management has instead chosen to immediately communicate the decision to tear the contract?
The hot potato. Assuming that this game will be played entirely in the courts, with rather uncertain times, the situation at the moment is rather tangled: on the one hand there is Spissu, who loses an important opportunity. On the other hand there is Dinamo, which – this being the case – would not collect the buyout agreed with the Spaniards (we are talking about about 100 thousand euros) and in addition, with an already complete roster and a budget already fixed, it would be burdened with a further contract: the recent consensual termination would in fact be conditional on the payment of the severance pay and the signing of the contract with Malaga. Failing these conditions, in theory we would return to the starting situation, with Spissu under contract with Dinamo until 2022. A hot potato complicated to manage both for the club and for the player.