The market agent Antonio Imborgia spoke on Radio FirenzeViola during “Viola Amore Mio”:
“With Lecce, it will be a difficult match for Fiorentina. Apart from the top five-six teams, all the other teams have similar values. There are always difficulties and Fiorentina must learn to have balance: we have moved on to the fact that someone he couldn’t even undress to go onto the pitch to idolize so many protagonists.
It seemed to me that after Milan’s success there was a change in mood, too positive. The problems were there before and they are there now.”
Can Pongracic become a case?
“He’s not well now. He got hurt and that’s it, even though when he played he didn’t do well.”
How do you judge the latest choices of the Viola management?
“I liked the transfer market. Adli is a strong player, as is De Gea. Then there are good players like Bove and Cataldi. For the rest, Fiorentina is achieving important results in relation to the value of the squad. They have made a great journey with a decent squad, but in my opinion without dominant players. Now we are starting to see players of greater depth, but we still need other additions. We need three-four more players with personalities. At the moment I don’t see many capable ones to withstand the pressure of Florence, I know the public well, a Fiorentina player should make a tunnel and silence everyone.
Vanessa LeonardiSkySport journalist, was a guest on Radio FirenzeViola in the afternoon to talk about what she saw yesterday when, as a guest at Viola Park, she met various protagonists of the Viola world:
“I met Luca Ranieri, who I’ve known for a long time now, he’s very kind. Then I was also struck by Adli, who interrupted his lunch to come with us live. He’s never banal, even when you ask him about Milan he doesn’t hold back back. He told me that at the end of the season he would like to celebrate something at the Viola Park bar, where the players gather to watch the matches. He said he wanted to bring something important to Florence.”
Do you think that Ranieri’s armband (captain against Milan) can help him manage the nervousness that the defender born in 1999 has shown in recent years?
“When you have the captain’s armband you can’t afford certain attitudes. I believe that this further certificate of trust could be of great help to him. Then when he talks about it, about the captain’s armband on his arm, he is almost incredulous at what he has achieved. But it can be useful to him also as a leap in behavioral quality”.
How did Palladino see it instead?
“He always shows serenity, he did it even in difficult moments. Yesterday, however, he seemed calmer to me. I think the last few games have helped him find his feet. Let’s remember that Gudmundsson has only had him for a short time, Adli is growing and he has a different head and feet from the others, then there is a goalkeeper like De Gea who is a phenomenon. Now even the manager is more aware of the strength of his team.”
Three days from Lecce-Fiorentina, Vincenzo Guerini, current president of Ancona but former viola and, due to the sudden departure of Delio Rossi after the disagreement with Ljiaic, on the bench in that Lecce-Fiorentina match in May 2012, for a match that earned his team salvation, he spoke of his emotions of that day:
“I really wouldn’t have liked to go down in history for having brought Fiorentina to Serie B, so it’s better that way. It was a difficult year, it was a team that didn’t play well and with many problems. But then that unfortunate year served to turn the page and create the Montella cycle, for three years that are difficult to repeat, many then thank me for that period and for that single match but it is I who have to thank Fiorentina, if this club hadn’t been in my life I would have been a bricklayer. Brescia”.
That match, won 1-0 by the Viola, was decided by Alessio Cerci.
“In that match I followed him and cuddled him as if he were my son. I told him: ‘Don’t worry about coming back, you have to give quality up front, if you go offside just three times it’s a success’. He was one of the few who could making a difference in that team. Then the only thing I claim in those years is having moved Marchionni back to midfield, in that match I tried him there as an emergency and I think I also extended his career in that role.”