During the long exclusive interview given to Radio Sportiva, the agent and intermediary Valerio Giuffrida told some behind the scenes stories of the most important negotiations handled during the last summer. Among these also the arrival of the new Roma centre forward, Artem Dovbyk, at the court of Daniele De Rossi.
As an agency, what feelings did you experience after the white smoke?
“Satisfaction and great responsibility, being from Rome and full of Roman friends. There is great expectation: you can make a mistake with the wife but you can’t make a mistake with the striker. They did technical and sports analyses, then the statistics help, he was Pichichi of the Spanish League arriving ahead of the strikers of Real, Barcelona and Atletico. He will have to adapt, it will take his time”.
Among the other heavy operations carried out is that of the ‘new’ Genoa striker
“Vitinha has taken on an important legacy, practically all of Genoa’s starting attack has gone. They have spent a lot, they have had time to test the waters, six months ‘to try it’. However, Genoa’s attackers always do well: when they land at the Grifone they are enveloped in a magic that leads them to perform better or to find themselves again if they have lost themselves. He had gone to Marseille for a very important sum, at Genoa he found himself and found great enthusiasm. They transform, they perform better, the youngsters get excited. In our experience as agents we have many cases of great success, from Palacio to Piatek to Sanabria and Shomurodov, the hope is that Vitinha will follow this path”.