The summary of all the transfer market news of the day that has just been archived. Between rumors, negotiations and behind the scenes, here is the most important news.
CLAUDIO RANIERI IS OFFICIALLY THE NEW COACH OF ROME AFTER JURIC’S EXpulsion, FROM JUNE HE WILL HELP FIND HIS HEIR. JUVE, CABAL’S INJURY AND THE DEFENSE EMERGENCY: THE NAMES IN EXTREMIS FOR JANUARY. MILAN, JOVIC OUT? GALATASARAY ON HIS TRAILS. KVARA-NAPOLI, THE RENEWAL QUESTION IS ALWAYS A THOUGHTFUL AND THERE ARE TWO PRETENDERS. INTER, MEETING WITH SPEZIA FOR BERTOLA: THE DETAILS. GALLIANI KEEPS NESTA AT MONZA AND DRIBBLES ON MALDINI’S FUTURE, LAZIO’S EYES ON A SUMMER FLAME.
Claudio Ranieri is to all intents and purposes the new coach of Roma, as communicated by the Giallorossi club via an official note sent: “AS Roma is pleased to announce that Claudio Ranieri is the new Technical Manager of the First Team. At the end of the season he will hire a senior management role: he will be consultant to the Owners for all sporting matters of the club. The search for the new coach will continue in the coming months and Claudio will also have a say in this decision. The Club wishes the coach the best of luck in his work new chapter in his exciting career, confident that he will represent added value for the team and for all of AS Roma.”
Cabal’s injury, which was added to that of Bremer, forces Juventus to make thoughtful reflections for the winter transfer market. The profile of Jonathan Tah, a center back born in 1998 for Bayer Leverkusen whose contract expires in the summer, is carefully monitored by director Giuntoli while the marginalized Kiwior (Arsenal) and the former Genoa and Juve player Radu Dragusin are possibilities, with the latter who could leave on loan. Finally, the Eric Dier option from Bayern Munich, for which 5 million is requested.
Galatasaray swoops in on Luka Jovic to replace the injured Mauro Icardi. In January the Serbian striker could therefore leave Milan to join Osimhen in the advanced department of the Giallorossi of Türkiye. Having chosen a prestigious shirt like the Rossoneri 9, it was believed that this year the former Fiorentina and Real Madrid player could do even better than last season, where as a substitute he always managed to have his say, often scoring goals as well decisive.
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia’s contract will expire in 2027 and Aurelio De Laurentiis has already indicated that Napoli’s desire is to keep him, refusing 100 million euros from PSG in the summer. They talked about the extension before the match against Milan: precisely a tete a tete between the Georgian’s agent Mamuka Jugeli and the Azzurri’s sporting director Giovanni Manna. The parties have become closer, but the distance remains and it is not so much on the salary requested by the outsider, but on the clause, which the player would like no higher than 80 million euros, while the club has no intention of going below 100 million . The entourage remains firm on the salary increase well above 1.5 million per year, but DeLa does not go beyond 5 million plus bonuses. Meanwhile, Barcelona and PSG like Kvara a lot.
Inter are not joking about Nicolò Bertola. The Nerazzurri club spoke with Spezia’s sporting director, Stefano Melissano, about the future of the defender born in 2003 who’s contract expires in June 2025 and is therefore attractive to many clubs. The meeting saw Melissano and Dario Baccin, Piero Ausilio’s right-hand man, as protagonists: the approval was there, but there were no official steps. And the Ligurian club’s preference would be not to lose the player to zero in the summer. Meanwhile, another meeting between the clubs has been scheduled for the end of December, in which we will talk about Bertola and any compensation to lower the cost of the price tag.
Alessandro Nesta cannot be touched. Adriano Galliani, CEO of Monza, said it during a meeting with the fans of the Brianza team: “I saw Nesta as very determined and very angry because he is looking for the solution to score points. Beyond the affectionate relationships for many years, we chose him because according to the statistics he was the one who played in the most similar way to Palladino. He enjoys our trust and doesn’t take any kind of risk, but now the time has come to score points.”
As for Daniel Maldini and the release clause in January worth just over ten million: “We must not think about the transfer market now, we must think about scoring points until January. Then we will see about the transfer market. Maldini is a player with enormous potential who He’s growing and can still improve a lot. There’s no clause in January: he’ll end the year in Monza, then we’ll see next year.”
Lazio, look to the future. A summit is scheduled soon in Formello between the president Claudio Lotito, the sporting director Fabiani and the coach Marco Baroni for the first opinions after these 16 matches and to start setting up the work in view of the January transfer window. Baroni’s request is still the one that went unheeded in the summer, that is, one more midfielder to add to the squad. The name remains that of Michael Folorunsho of Napoli, a player negotiated for a long time in recent months, but Lotito does not intend to make progress on the loan with right of redemption formula.
PAPADOPOULOS SAYS GOODBYE TO LEVADIAKOS AFTER 4 MONTHS, TOPRAK HANGS UP HIS BOOTS, IN BRAZIL THEY DREAM OF NEYMAR JUNIOR’S RETURN TO SANTOS. ARSENAL, SOS INJURIES: ARTETA MAKES A LIST OF REINFORCEMENTS, FOUR NAMES MARKED.
The experience lasted just under four months Kyriakos Papadopoulos at Levadiakos. The experienced Greek defender (35 appearances and 4 goals for the national team) has terminated his contract and is now officially a free agent. The reasons that led to the breakup are unclear, but the player’s background speaks for itself: Olympiacos, Schalke, Bayer Leverkusen, Leipzig, Hamburg, Lokomotiva, Al Feiha, Atromitos, Craiova and PAS Lamia.
Omer Toprak retires at 35. The 35-year-old Turkish defender, formerly of Bayer Leverkusen and Borussia Dortmund, was left without a team after leaving Antalyaspor in the summer. Today he announced his decision: “After 16 years I end my career with one eye laughing and one eye crying”, he wrote in his own hand. “There have been many victories and many defeats. Many friendships have been born along the way. For this I will be eternally grateful and this is why I have a laughing eye. The crying eye is because I am leaving the sport that I have loved more than everything else since I was a kid. I’m proud to have achieved my dream.”
There was no spark at Al Hilal or more simply an injury curse has persecuted Neymar Junior since he left PSG to land in Saudi Arabia. But with only 4 full games played and just one goal scored, frustration is palpable among fans and the club finds itself coming to terms with the failure of its ambitions. Meanwhile, in Brazil, the dream of O’Ney’s return to Santos, the club of his childhood which then allowed him to make the leap to the next level in Europe, to Barcelona, is growing.
Arsenal waste no time. Although the transfer market is not yet officially open, the Gunners already have some objectives in mind to achieve in the market, also in light of the myriad of injuries that are undermining the start of the season for Mikel Arteta’s team. There will soon be a meeting between the sporting management of the London club and the Kroenke owners to get to the bottom of the set market objectives: in pole position is Nico Williams, Athletic Bilbao’s prodigy, but with a release clause of 58 million euros . Two names in attack: the return of Benjamin Sesko and Alexander Isak. Finally, in midfield, Eberechi Eze, who is also a former acquaintance of the Arsenal academy and is doing well at Crystal Palace, tries a lot.