Negotiations for defenders Glik and Talbi are also underway with the Campania club. Goalkeeper chapter: Joronen is on pole while Gasparini ends up at Pro Vercelli
UDINE. In the era of globalization, geographical distances are no longer an obstacle, even if there is a time zone in between, ready to recall the tide of kilometers that separates not only cultural but also football realities. At the limit, in these days of the America’s Cup that time zone can only prove to be a nuisance for football fans, who will be worth a couple of nights to see the last two games of the event in progress, starting from that Colombia. -Peru where Udinese’s past and future could face each other, with Colombians Cuadrado, Zapata and Muriel ready to fill the eyes of memories of Zebretta fans. The future, on the other hand, the Udinese fans could see it tonight (at 2) in Gianluca Lapadula, Peru center forward who despite being born in Turin, and having played almost always in Italy, chose the Peruvian national team after having applied for citizenship due to the origins of his mother.
His so far has been a sumptuous America’s Cup, characterized by three goals and an assist in six appearances in which he guaranteed experience and personality. He was therefore one of the drivers who brought Peru into the top four and the detail now makes all the difference because Udinese has plunged back into him. To be honest, the club had asked for information well before the South American competition began, and it did so at the end of May, when the director Pierpaolo Marino has woven a direct line with the patron of Benevento Oreste Vigorito. The axis, as reported by sources close to the Samnite club, has always remained hot and seems to promise a multiple deal, considering that on Gino Pozzo’s table, in addition to the profile of that Lapadula who has been chased several times at Udinese (the last attempt was made in January 2019), the technical profiles of the defenders are also finished Kamil Glik, 33-year-old expert cuirassier we followed with Poland at the European Championships, and of Montasser Talbi, Franco-Moroccan central defender born in ’98 on which Benevento had guaranteed a free transfer from the Turks of Rizespor. Everything was then put in freeze pending certification to the B series, which arrived after the OK given to Salernitana. Just to remember that there was also the anti-trust, relating to Lotito’s team, to keep Benevento at stake for a possible repechage in A. For this reason Udinese waited before making up for the three players, with a purchase proposal that could bring the 31-year-old Lapadula (37 games and 8 goals in the last season) to Udine with an onerous loan plus a right of redemption, while Glik should reduce his current salary by one million, or spread it over a two-year period. For Talbi, on the other hand, there is the prospect of compensation for the Giallorossi and an arrival in Udine linked to a loan with the right of redemption.
To these operations must be added the always lively interest in purple Christian Kouame, while the last ones on the goalkeeper give the Finn Jesse Joronen ahead of the competition. From Brescia they report of increasingly frequent contacts with the Cellino club for the 28-year-old who has been the Finnish national team 13 times.
Meanwhile, Udinese made official the goalkeeper’s loan yesterday Manuel Gasparini to Pro Vercelli, the team in which the Friulian played Gianluca Saro, passed to Crotone. –