Udinese: Semplici is always in pole position, but the Sottil idea also appears for the bench

The former Cagliari coach asks for a biennial, Pozzo does not go beyond one year. Survey for the coach who played for Juventus from ’99 to ’03

UDINE. Leonardo Semplici is, and remains, the most credible candidate to replace Gabriele Cioffi on the Udinese bench, where the casting-coach has continued and will continue in the next few days by the will of a Gino Pozzo who is very determined to sift through more profiles.

From the most well-known names and profiles to those most unknown to most, the diktat to its emissaries is that of an extended survey in order to obtain preferences and availability to be examined before arriving to then find themselves negotiating, in the contractual context around at a table. For this reason not a day goes by in which “radio market” does not juxtapose one name after another, passing by Fabio Pecchia a Paolo Zanettida Johan Walem to yesterday’s new entry, thatAndrea Sottil that he was in Udine as a player from ’99 to ’03, bounced on all sites because he was compared to Udinese, as well as to Cremonese.

This explains the tam tam of names, but beyond the rumors, indiscretions and insights count, which is why the Semplici track remains on pole even if with a knot to untie.

The knot is the contractual one, and does not concern the recent past of the Florentine technician who on June 30 will be free from the contract signed for 800 thousand euros with Cagliari on February 22, 2021, but rather the one that should be stipulated if Gino Pozzo’s emissary contacts again the Lian Sports Group of the powerful Fali Ramadami, the agency that looks after Semplici’s interests and that the Pozzo family know very well not only for having negotiated contracts for Stipe Pericabut also that of the Serbian coach Vladimir Ivicthe coach who was entrusted with the Watford bench at the beginning of the 2020-21 season, after the refusal arrived by Semplici who was offered the English bench after the “illusion” of being one step away from the Friulian one , with the agreement already reached, but then torn apart by the choice to confirm Luca Gotti.

It was Ramadami then who suggested Ivic as an alternative to Semplici, with the Serbian coach sacked rather inexplicably after 21 days, with an average of 1.68 per game in the Championship and fifth in the standings.

The promotion mission was then entrusted and centered by the Spaniard Xisco which took second place. That Watford of Ivic played with 3-5-2, the “mantra” of Semplici who, to return to the knot, has the habit of asking for a two-year period. Here is the point, the knot to be solved on which the parties have yet to speak.

All this, because Udinese is now known for not granting more than a year of contract to the coaches, as it did with Gotti (also making an inserted renewal option expire) and has also recently done with Cioffi, who has not been granted a two-year, but only one year. Cioffi on which hoaxes have sprung up on the net, relating to a possible compensation, a release clause of 1.5 million that Udinese should have, in order to free him.

None of this, the clause does not exist and Cioffi will be free to sign the biennial of 500 thousand euros in Verona. Instead, he is still under a one-year contract at Ascoli Andrea Sottil, the new name rebounded yesterday. The track is passable, the former Juventus player, assisted by Giuseppe Riso, has always maintained excellent relations with Gino Pozzo.