INTER, GASPERINI WAITING FOR THE DECISIVE CALL NOW IT ALL DEPENDS ON MORATTI
Gian Piero Gasperini hoped that yesterday could be the decisive day to see him on the Inter bench. After meeting Branca on Monday afternoon, yesterday he waited all day for a call from Palazzo Saras, which however did not arrive. Now the question is only one: why hasn't Moratti summoned him yet to sign? Evidently the Nerazzurri president is not 100% convinced of entrusting his battleship to a coach who, although good, has never led a great team. His dream (number 4, given the impossibility of reaching Bielsa, Villas Boas and Capello) is still Sinisa Mihajlovic, who however has been blocked several times by Fiorentina. It is therefore probable that the Inter number one is trying to play his last cards to get to the Serbian (who would come running, but must convince the Della Valles). Difficult, almost like convincing the owners of Zenit St. Petersburg to let go of Luciano Spalletti, who is also under contract and even already involved in the Russian championship (which started in March). And so the casting continued, to the desperation of the journalists (by now permanently camped under Saras) and the Nerazzurri fans, worried by so much uncertainty. Gasperini waits in his house in Grugliasco and crosses his fingers, hiding behind a "Call me back tomorrow" (today for those who read ed). Because this, at least for him, should be the decisive day. For better or for worse.
ROME, HERE'S THE FIRST AMERICAN STROKE IS MADE WITH BOJAN KRKIC!
Bojan Krkic is the first shot of the new Rome. The Giallorossi and Barcelona have reached an agreement on the basis of a loan with a right to buy set at 10 million. Everything is in order also for the counter - redemption, which Roma would have wanted for 20 million, Barcelona for 10. In the end, as in the most logical of solutions, the parties met in the middle (15 million). Having completed the Spanish task, Sabatini is ready to return to Italy to follow the closure of the co-ownerships set for Friday. Particular attention to Emanuele Viviano, halfway between Bologna and Inter, to whom the Giallorossi would like to entrust the door for next season. Based on how Sabatini goes, he will know who he will have to deal with.
VILLAS BOAS IN CHELSEA! ABRAMOVICH RETURNS TO BEING THE FOOTBALL PAPER.
The official announcement arrived yesterday afternoon directly from the Porto website: Andrè Villas Boas is no longer the coach of the Dragoes (who have already officially replaced him with Vitor Pereira). Roman Abramovich in fact decided that for Chelsea he necessarily wanted him, and so he paid the 15 million euro release clause without batting an eye. This is an absolute record, because a coach (only 33 years old) had never been paid so much. The Special Two (nickname fruit of the past in Mourinho's staff) will also go 5 million euros for the next 3 years. In Portugal, however, they argue that Abramovich's Lusitanian expenses didn't end there. Villas Boas explicitly asked to bring forward Falcao, available for the modest sum of 30 million. The Chelsea owner would have consented, and soon everything will become official. And inevitably, a big shot like Didier Drogba (who is liked by Sheikh Abdullah Bin Nassar Al-Thani's Malaga) will end up on the market. MILAN: DE LAURENTIIS STOPS HAMSIK'S ENTHUSIASM WITH GENOA THE "BOATENG BIS" IS STUDYING AC Milan's coach X still has no identity. The favorite for everyone seems to be Marek Hamsik, but not for the Napoli president. Aurelio De Laurentiis really doesn't want to know about depriving himself of the Slovak, and to a fan who proposed an exchange with Pato he replied cryptic: "If you allow Hamsik he's worth more". Presidential phrases aside, there is the possibility that "Marekiaro" will leave Naples for Milan. Mino Raiola, who recently joined Venglos in the management of the playmaker, slips away ("I don't give interviews"), but in the meantime he is working under cover. The agent's goal is to dress Hamsik in the Rossoneri, and to do so he could use the usual tactic, already successfully tested with Ibrahimovic and Balotelli: the so-called "stomach ache". Milan, for its part, is waiting, in the meantime, to appease De Laurentiis, they are ready to step aside for Erik Lamela, a young Argentine that the Neapolitans like a lot. Attention to the latest indiscretion that arrived last night. Milan and Genoa are reportedly studying the co-ownership purchase of Arturo Vidal, the Chilean midfielder of Bayer Leverkusen who was liked, not even on purpose, even by Napoli. It would be a Boateng bis operation, given that last year the Ghanaian was bought with the same formula. And in via Turati they hope that the results will be the same.
JUVE MOVES ON THE SALE FRONT OF LICHSTEINER, FINALLY HERE WE ARE!
Nothing to report regarding the Juventus market. Yesterday was a day dedicated above all to the sales front. In particular Fabio Paratici met in Milan Pocetta, Amauri's attorney, with whom he had a brief but significant conversation. The bianconeri, who want to sign a great striker (Aguero or Giuseppe Rossi) no longer bet on the Italian-Brazilian, and have kindly invited him to find another accommodation. The problem, however, is the center forward's contract, 4,2 million net until 2013, which makes him difficult to place on the market. Juventus which must also try to sell Vincenzo Iaquinta. His agent Andrea D'Amico, who spoke yesterday evening on 7Gold, said that he will look around for other opportunities, recalling however that the forward has a contract until 2013 with an salary of 2,5 million. The now cloying negotiation between Lazio and Juve for Lichtsteiner should have come to an end. The parties, who have been close for days, have reached an agreement on the basis of 9 million euros. And the signature will arrive soon.
SANCHEZ - BARCELONA, THE PROBLEM IS JEFFREN UDINESE WANTS TO SELL HIM TO MANCHESTER CITY
Jeffrèn Suarez. He has a name and a surname, the problem that has been blocking Sanchez's transfer to Barcelona for two days. The Catalans and Udinese had already reached an agreement on Sunday evening, on the basis of 40 million (28 immediately, the others linked to bonuses) and, precisely, Jeffrèn's price tag, valued at around 5 million. But the young Spanish striker, currently engaged in Denmark with the Under 21 national team for the European Championships, is not at all convinced of moving to Udine. And so the problem of the technical compensation arises again, which already two weeks ago blew up the negotiation (at the time the refusal was from Bojan Krkic). So here are Pozzo's declarations (“I want 50 million”): if Barça fails to place a valuable young man in the deal, they will have to make up for it by offering more money. In this sense, the step forward was taken by Manchester City, who even went so far as to offer 40 million cash immediately plus 5 in bonuses. The Friulians are pushing for the player to accept England, but the European champions are calm: Alexis Sanchez has already chosen, he only wants Barcelona. Unless patron Pozzo manages to convince him otherwise.
NAPLES, CRISCITO TENTENNA, INLER GOODBYE? MARCHETTI AT LAZIO: ONLY THE SIGNATURE MUTU - CESENA IS MISSING, ALL SKIPPED
The purchases of Criscito and Inler by Napoli risk disappearing. With both, there are no agreements on engagements: the Genoan is waiting to understand if Gasperini (his great admirer of him) will become the Inter coach or not, the second instead has been hesitating for weeks now. And it is no coincidence that Bigon has practically closed the purchase of Dzemaili from Parma (9 million euros) and is moving decisively on Tottenham's Palacios, while today, finally, Donadel's signing will arrive. Purchase in sight also for Lazio. Giuseppe Bozzo (prosecutor of Cassano, but also of Marchetti) yesterday reassured the Lazio square: "Federico wants to become biancoceleste, we have given the floor to Lotito". Now we are just waiting for the go-ahead from the president of Cagliari Massimo Cellino. In the meantime, the negotiation between Cesena and Adrian Mutu has faded. On the official website of the Romagnoli we read that "The negotiation was interrupted due to too much economic divergence between the parties".
