The rossoblù are relegated, but in this session their players are selling like hot cakes: Cragno, Bellanova, Carboni, Marin … And now captain Joao Pedro goes to Turkey
Cagliari has sunk into Serie B, yet its players are selling like hot cakes. It is a curious story, it resembles the ancient ones of Milan or Juventus relegated, which lost the heaviest pieces going down among the cadets, as if the various Collovati, Ibra or Thuram and Cannavaro were a weight from which to free oneself in order to get back up. It is true that then the verdicts had to do with something not very sporty, but the effect is not so different. Here too there is a beautiful diaspora. People who go, launch into orbit and stay afloat. Cragno, to say, number one in the blue round, will defend the door of Berlusconi’s rampant Monza where Carboni, a young defender with good prospects, also ended up.
Bellanova
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Already a fixed point of the Under 21, there was Juve, then the full-back ended up at Inter where he will compete with Dumfries (as long as the Dutchman remains) in the right lane. Lykogiannis, the Greek colleague of the left-handed side, was co-opted in Mihajlovic’s Bologna by Giovanni Sartori, the technical director who, together with Gasp, built Atalanta in recent years.
marin
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A midfielder with good feet, he ended up at Empoli – joining Vicario, Cragno’s former deputy – to take over Asllani, who joined Inter as assistant director. The Cholito Simeone, loaned to Verona, was redeemed by the Scala family and is destined for Naples. Two important pawns like Nandez and Rog are on the launch pad. The various Lovato, Dalbert and Strootmann, passing through Sardinia, returned to their bases (Atalanta, Inter, Marseille). The last name, the heaviest one, frees everyone. Captain Joao Pedro – who in March Mancini made his blue debut – has settled in Istanbul, signing a three-year contract with Fenerbahçe where he will be able to play in the Champions League, if Jorge Jesus’ team passes the preliminaries.
the fall
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The market tells many things. He tells us that the most important part of the protagonists of the last disastrous rossoblù season has found accommodation in high and mid-ranking teams, in Italy or abroad. It wasn’t the quality of the players, therefore, that was missing. The problem, obviously, is another. There is a fact to reflect on. According to a StageUp-Ipsos research, it appears that Cagliari is the eighth Italian team in terms of number of fans (524 thousand). In front there are Juve, Inter, Milan, Naples, Rome, Fiorentina, Lazio. Everything else comes later. I am impressed by the perfect correspondence between the pool of friendly public and the sporting result. Pay attention to it. The top four teams, which attract more than 80 percent of fans, are qualified for the next Champions League. The other three follow more or less the order: Roma and Lazio are in the Europa League, Fiorentina are in the preliminary rounds of the Conference. So far the first seven. And the octave? Cagliari finished eighteenth in the standings, with the misery of 30 points in 34 games. Where is the anomaly? Since the club was bought eight years ago by the Fluorsid industrial group, chaired by Tommaso Giulini, the team has gone down to Serie B twice and has always been involved in the battle for salvation. Only with Maran on the bench, in the first leg of 2019-20, had he detached his wings from the ground. Then came the pandemic and it never recovered.
the choices on the bench
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From 2020 to today, Cagliari has had seven coaches. What is missing is a high view of the team that won the historic Scudetto with Gigi Riva, and that delighted the public with the genius of champions such as Francescoli and Zola. There is no vision worthy of the story. Fiorentina and Turin have made a leap forward by focusing on the “next” of Italian and Juric. Nothing in Cagliari, the fate of the team-lift (between A and B) seems to be sealed despite the number of fans and the push of the Sardinian people behind them. A few days ago the club presented the project for the new stadium. Super, with 30 thousand seats. They say it will be ready for the 2025-26 season. Extensive program. Who knows if in the meantime Cagliari will be able to return to A. And not to make an appearance.
July 23 – 10:00
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