With 61 million collected, the Bianconeri are fifth club in Europe. Now the deal does not go wrong: Alario and Kouame run good
UDINE. “Time is money” is an English proverb that can also be valid in the football market of the Covid era, where the “little money” there is is careful how to spend it, and loans are fashionable. In the “jungle” there is obviously also Udinese, who, 23 days after their debut in the league against Juventus, in Friuli, has yet to place their best shots.
Among the missing pieces to the puzzle, that of the first striker is undoubtedly the most awaited by the fans and also by Gotti himself who, yes, all right, is working with Stefano Okaka and a Nacho Pussetto for whom he can wish an ever more future inside the penalty area, given the bill of goals scored in the 16 meters, but an investment expects it, sooner or later.
Yeah, but when? The famous proverb above tends to underline the value of time and with it the need not to lose it, and therefore acts as a compass for everyone, even for the Juventus managers who at the beginning of the transfer market had made it clear that Udinese will take advantage of the session. until the last day, with the real blows in the last part.
However, given how it went last year, waiting could be a new gamble, especially not to celebrate the first two or three days of the championship. And here it is enough to remember that Pussetto, Pereira and Deulofeu arrived at the gong of the last market day.
The memory therefore acts as a warning, and the hope that Udinese has already identified its striker must peep out among the fans, aware that so far the club is the fifth in Europe for market revenues with 61 million (in the account there are also Barak’s 6 in Verona, in addition to De Paul’s 35 and Musso’s 20), behind Borussia Dortmund (101), Leipzig (92), Inter (82) and Salzburg (61.5).
So why not think that Udinese can soon invest in an experienced striker like the 28-year-old Argentine Lucas Alario, who would know his grandfather’s roots in Friuli, or on that Christian Kouame that Fiorentina is also negotiating with Anderlecht and Fruburgo?
Waiting, in fact, might not be convenient, in order not to find yourself repeating an unfortunate purchase of the last day, at Lukasz Teodorczyk, so to speak.
All this, after having already lost Maxi Romero – who remained at PSV Eindhoven – and Sidney Van Hooijdonk who went to Bologna for various reasons, right there where Marko Arnautovic will be Mihajlovic’s first striker.
The comparison with the direct competitors of the Zebretta therefore arises spontaneously, and then here is that Genoa yesterday tightened to get to that Sam Lammers who is another of Udinese’s objectives, and who in the meantime already has a double-digit bomber in Mattia Right, half regret for Udinese given the 11 goals scored last year. At Sampdoria they will always be able to count on the immortal Fabio Quagliarella, while it is hard to think of a Torino without his “Gallo” Belotti.
In Florence they will start again from Dusan Vlahovic, the 40 million millennial after the exploit of 21 goals. Among the newly promoted, Venezia are on the former CSKA Moscow Arnor Sigurdsson and Salernitana is aiming for Andrea Favilli.
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