The Formello emptying operation has begun. Sporting director Angelo Fabiani has started the transfers of players who do not fit into Marco Baroni’s technical project. The first to say goodbye in these days will be Matthew Chancellorspromised to Parma who takes him on a onerous loan of over a million with the right to redeem. An important operation for a player coming off a good year at Empoli and who under Pecchia’s orders can find the goals that Lazio hoped he could bring. A goal that saves Christos Mandas and will save him again at Formello. Lazio is not thinking of selling him, neither in the Premier League nor to unlikely Serie B teams for loans that never stood up. The one who is about to leave is certainly Toma Basic. Salernitana likes the Croatian after the six months of loan from January to June, but is waiting for a Serie A team or from abroad. Lazio hopes to sell him outright to close with another flop purchase from the past.
The long list of redundancies
To these three we must certainly add Momo Fares, who still has two years left on his contract and is coming off a year spent mainly on the bench in Brescia. For the former Spal player, there have been timid enquiries from Greece, but at the moment no one is ready to take on a rather heavy salary. In midfield, not only Basic will start, at least one of Cataldi and Akpa-Akpro is too many. For the logic of the list and Baroni’s choices, Cataldi should stay but be careful about the company’s choices on the future of the class of ’94. For the former Salernitana player there was a new survey by Monza, Lazio is asking for compensation to let him leave given his contract expiring in a year and the clear desire not to renew.