For months now Fiorentina made a breakthrough for the January transfer window: Nicolas Valentinileft-footed central defender from Boca Juniors. The Argentinian born in 2001, as scheduled, landed in Florence this morning to get to know the purple world and start his new adventure after the expiration of his contract with the Buenos Aires club.
As reported by Firenzeviola.itIndeed, Valentini has already arrived at Viola ParkFiorentina’s brand new sports centre, ready to start the whole process that will lead him – between official photos and medical visits – to signing with the new club. He arrives on a free transfer, signing a 4 and a half year contract until 2029. In the next few hours he will make himself available to coach Raffaele Palladino.
Palladino has clear ideas: he wants Pablo Mari to replace Martinez Quarta. The point
Raffaele Palladino thinks of Pablo Mari to strengthen his rearguard. After having made the fortunes of the Campania coach in Monza, now the Spanish central defender is a strong idea of the Viola coach who in the next few days should lose Lucas Martinez Quarta, a defender who has received an important offer from River Plate and is pushing for return to his homeland. According to what was gathered by the ‘TMW’ editorial team, the former Arsenal player is now Palladino’s first choice who is thinking of a Fiorentina with two pairs for the second part of the season: Pongracic and Comuzzo on the centre-right, Ranieri and Pablo Marì on the center -left. However, there is a need to negotiate with Adriano Galliani: it is true that the 31-year-old defender’s contract is expiring, but bottom-of-the-table Monza are not willing to easily let go of a player who today is one of the few certainties available to the new coach Bocchetti. The negotiation could be unblocked with a counterpart: perhaps Moreno, a defender who arrived in the summer from Belgrano. The negotiation is still to be set up, it is unlikely to be closed before the direct clash between the two teams which will take place on January 13th. But there are two certainties: Pablo Marì’s desire to favor this operation if the two clubs reach an agreement and Palladino’s request that instead of Martinez Quarta he wants a reliable central defender. Identikit that leads directly to Spanish.