Udinese, Betis Sevilla comes forward: this is how Deulofeu returns to the radar of the Spaniards

Radio market speaks of an offer of 15 million for 75% of the price tag. Official the arrival of Bijol who goes to reinforce a department with the counted men

UDINE. Fortunately, yesterday Jaka Bijol signed his five-year contract that will bind him to Udinese until June 2027, and that after the usual photos he was accompanied in a hurry to the Austrian training camp in Lienz where Udinese continued. the preparation with a double session, because it is quite evident that Andrea Sottil was waiting with some trepidation for a new cuirassier on which to erect the new defense, the one left unguarded by the fine loan Pablo Marì – to Arsenal – and that Nehuen Perez who ‘Atletico Madrid has returned home and is now looking to relocate back to Italy.

In fact, how much Udinese needed a defender, Sottil made it clear in the first test of the season against Rapid Lienz, when the coach completed the first defensive line of his management with 18-year-old Nicolò Cocetta, in force at the Primavera , placed third on the left next to the Croatian central Filip Benkovic, while on the right took position Rodrigo Becao, “market man” for 20 million euros for the Pozzo, as was reiterated in recent days to the director of Turin Davide Vagnati and at Everton.

All this, while the former captain Bram Nuytinck was included only in the second half to act as “hen” to the very young James Abankwah and Axel Guissand. From today, therefore, and above all in the next tests against the Germans (those on Sunday with Schalke 04 and next Thursday with Bayer Leverkusen will be broadcast on Dazn), Sottil will be able to count on the Slovenian international Bijol, who certainly does not lack adaptation. , given that he was born a midfielder and that over time he then found space as a central defender, both in CSKA Moscow, to which Udinese will pay over 4 million euros, plus 10% on any future resale, and in the national team.

Bijol then arrives to cover an evident flaw, and his probable use as a central should push Benkovic to the left, a band that could become the weak side of the team if a deputy Udogie is not found, especially after the fracture in the tibia that will force Leonardo Buta to at least four months off. In that role Sottil is trying Festy Ebosele, deployed in the second half in place of the blue, but the former Derby County has already shown that he does not have a natural predisposition to play on the inverted foot.

The left wing is also the one from which Gerard Deulofeu loves to start, as he recalled yesterday on Instagram on Instagram, where he posted his lob goal scored at Rapid. Here, the Catalan seems to weigh heavily, given that the Napoli track seems to have cooled, to the point that his agent Albert Botines met Betis Sevilla.

Radiomercato talks about a Spanish proposal worth 15 million for 75% of the Udinese card, a formula that would undoubtedly be re-discussed but which at the moment only signals how Deulofeu is back on the radar of the Spanish (in addition to Villareal), and also of Marseille who in February he had identified the Juventus diez as a possible target. Igor Tudor has just taken over Olympique and who knows that after having faced him last year with Verona, you are not thinking now of giving it to yourself.

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