Non-stop market – Rumors, negotiations and background of September 10

ROME, ZALEWSKI SAYS YES TO GALATASARAY. FIORENTINA, KOUAME’ AND COMUZZO RENEW. LAZIO, CHERKI COULD ARRIVE ON A FREE BASIS. JUVENTUS, NEGOTIATIONS ADVANCED FOR THE GEM RIPANI. BOLOGNA, HEADING TOWARDS THREE CONTRACT RENEWALS. VENICE, ENEM BELIEVES AND LANDS IN CYPRUS.

Nicola Zalewski is increasingly distant from Roma. The winger is fresh from his adventure with the Polish national team in this Nations League but his future seems to be in Turkey. According to the online edition of Corriere dello Sport, he seems to have accepted Galatasaray after a meeting with the Giallorossi management. The player would receive a salary of around two million euros per season for a five-year contract. Now, we read, it is the two clubs that are negotiating. Zalewski’s contract expires next June so the club from the capital should not earn more than 8-9 million euros plus bonuses. Now all we are waiting for is the white smoke and another young player could leave Roma. In fact, in the summer market another player born in 2002 left Roma. Edoardo Bove moved to Fiorentina on loan with the right to buy.

With the incoming transfer market behind us, at least until we get closer to the January one, the time is approaching for many Serie A clubs to finalise the main bridge renewals, and Fiorentina is certainly no exception. Speaking of purple renewals, today’s edition of La Gazzetta dello Sport returns to the topic. These are very important days for the contract extension of Christian Kouame, ready to tie himself to the Tuscan club until 2027 and thus extend the agreement expiring on 30 June, after Fiorentina at the end of last season had activated the option available to him to automatically extend until 2025, but with a significant increase in salary. Another renewal is also awaited, that of the young defender Pietro Comuzzo, used as a starter in all the first matches of the championship by his coach Palladino. The 2005-born player is ready to tie himself to the purple colors until 30 June 2028.

Lazio continues to pursue Rayan Cherki, Lyon’s playmaker: he refused the renewal and is set to leave in January or June. The French have asked for 18 million to let him leave before the final gong, no one has granted the request. Born in 2003, he turned 21 on August 21, he is one of the most followed talents in the French championship, he will be one of the most sought-after names in the coming months. As revealed today by Corriere dello Sport, Lazio will keep an eye on him as long as his contract is expiring and he does not receive unrivaled offers. By moving for free he can get richer salaries, during the transfer market he was asking for at least a four-year contract of 2.5 million. Lyon has put up a wall, they did not want to hear of lowering the price even if they ran the risk of losing the player for free. Cherki has never been used by coach Sage, in the coming weeks we will see if the case will be resolved and if the club will bring him back to the team using him until the end of his contract. An attempt to sell will be made in January, at prices lower than 18 million. But at that point Cherki will decide his future, being able to sign agreements with other clubs starting in the 2025-26 season. Cherki does not seem like a name that can be spent in January, when Lotito will be called upon to decide whether to intervene or not. It will depend on the team’s performance, but it cannot be the only condition. There is a void in midfield, made even wider by Castrovilli’s cut in Europe. The problem of the lists was and will be there, made even more complex by the absence of talent from the Lazio youth sector (the only one included in the UEFA list is Furlanetto, third goalkeeper).

Juventus does not stop following the international market. As reported by Tuttosport, in fact, Ricardo Pepi, an American striker who plays for PSV and who will therefore be the protagonist against Motta’s team in the Champions League, remains on the Juventus notebook. Pepi – we read – is a fairly classic central striker who could represent an ideal deputy for Vlahovic. He is tied to the Dutch club until 2028 with an estimated value of his contract around 15 million euros. The US international arrived in Europe in 2022, in Holland he scored consistently, always reaching double figures and could also represent a prospective investment and not just an alternative to Vlahovic, currently an immovable starter at the center of the Juventus attack. In the meantime, Juventus is ready to secure “the new Verratti”. Again according to Tuttosport, negotiations are well underway by the Juventus club with the agents of Diego Ripani, a 2005 class gem who plays in the Juventus Primavera team and grew up in the Pescara youth system. Montero is crazy about him and last year he entrusted him with the keys to the midfield. A film that could be replicated in the coming months in Serie C with Juventus Next Gen. By the end of the month, the contract renewal is expected until 2027 with an option for 2028.

Bologna is ready to lock down three of its prized pieces in the squad and further bind to the colors of the rossoblù two protagonists of the great, last season that brought back to taste the Champions League after more than sixty years (it was still the Champions Cup the last time the Emilians participated) from the last time. As reported by La Gazzetta dello Sport, in fact, three contract renewals are ready that Bologna is preparing to make official in a few days. The midfielder Lewis Ferguson, a real pillar in the plans even though he has been out for several months due to injury, will sign until June 30, 2029 while another midfielder, the Swiss international Michel Aebischer, and the homegrown full-back Tommaso Corazza will renew until 2028.

Venezia FC announces the transfer of striker Jay Enem to Cypriot club People’s Athletic Club Omonoia 29M on loan until the end of the season. Below is the full statement: “Enem, 21, joined Venezia FC Primavera in August 2022 and scored three goals in four appearances, before making his First Team debut on Matchday 21 of the 2022/23 Serie B championship. He then went on loan to Vis Pesaro, where he made seven appearances in the second half of the 2022/23 season, before moving on loan to Ethnikos Achnas in the 23/24 season. Good luck, Jay.

MANCHESTER UNITED, EZE WARNS, ANTONY TOWARDS TURKEY. CHELSEA, FOFANA TOWARDS AEK ATHENS. NEWCASTLE BUILD A WALL FOR TRIPPIER’S SALE. FORMER REAL MADRID RODRIGO JOINS AL-RAYYAN.

Manchester United are already thinking about the next summer market, despite the 2024 one having just ended. According to the Manchester Evening News, the Red Devils have identified Eberechi Eze as the perfect profile to strengthen Ten Hag’s team. The 26-year-old from Crystal Palace will have a clause in his contract from 2025 and to buy him they will need around 80.6 million euros. An investment that is certainly not insignificant, which will require consideration before being approved. Furthermore, Eze is also being carefully observed by Liverpool, who are currently not sure about keeping Mohamed Salah. Should the Egyptian leave Anfield, despite Chiesa already being in the squad, a reinforcement would be needed.

Antony’s performances are significantly below expectations and are pushing him away from Old Trafford. According to The Sun, Manchester United are seriously considering loaning him to Turkey, where José Mourinho’s Fenerbahce are in pole position to sign him, responding to the move by rivals Galatasaray, who have secured Victor Osimhen. However, Ajax are also continuing to study the situation, wanting to bring him back to Amsterdam, as are Spanish, French and Saudi clubs, who will however only be able to operate in January.

The market in England has already ended, but Chelsea are still trying to finalise some sales and one of these is that of David Datro Fofana. According to The Athletic, the Blues have intensified talks with AEK Athens for the striker, in the hope that an agreement can be reached before Wednesday, when the transfer campaign will close in Greece. The Giallorossi are the club that have shown the most interest in the former Molde player, who was paid over 10 million euros by Chelsea in January 2023. Since then, however, he has only made 3 appearances and has played on loan at Union Berlin and Burnley. The figure that the Greeks will eventually pay could be less than 10 million euros, but bonuses will still be included. In his career he boasts 4 appearances for Chelsea, 2 games and a goal with the Blues’ Under 21s, 15 games and 4 goals with Burnley, 17 matches and 2 goals with Union Berlin and 65 matches and 24 goals with Molde. For the national team he has collected 3 appearances with the Ivory Coast and 3 with the Under 23s, also scoring a goal. His palmares includes a Norwegian championship and a Norwegian Cup.

Kieran Trippier will stay at Newcastle. According to Sky Sports UK, there is nothing that can be done for the player and the clubs that wanted him, the Magpies will not let him go. The English right-back has long been pursued by Eyupspor, Besiktas, Fenerbahce and another Turkish club, but in the end they all had to give up. The reason? It was impossible to convince those who own his registration to let him go, despite the firm desire of the former Tottenham and Atletico Madrid player to try a new experience. Kieran Trippier in 2023 – 2024 played 39 games, including 28 in the Premier League, 2 in the Carabao Cup, 3 in the FA Cup and 6 in the Champions League, scoring one goal. In his career, in which he won LaLiga with Simeone’s Atletico Madrid, he wore the Burnley jersey 185 times, 114 for Tottenham, 92 for Newcastle, 84 for Atletico Madrid, 44 for Barnsley, 11 for the Manchester City reserves and 4 for the England Under 18s. To these must be added 54 games with England, 2 with the Under 21 national team, 3 with the Under 20, 10 with the Under 19 and one with the Under 18.

From Qatar to Qatar, this is the strange transfer of Rodrigo, former striker of Real Madrid, Bolton, Benfica, Valencia and Leeds United, who has gone on loan from Al-Rayyan to Al Gharafa. The 33-year-old Spaniard will meet Joselu, a player with whom he shared the experience in the youth teams of the Blancos.