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Precious victory for Roma, who in the 18 minutes plus injury time at his disposal on the Udinese pitch found the goal just before the final whistle thanks to Cristante’s header from a corner kicked by Dybala and won the match with the result 1-2. The Giallorossi thus momentarily put the arrow against Atalanta and, being +4 from the Goddess, they currently have everything in their hands as regards achieving a place in the Champions League, remembering that even 5th place leads to the Europe that counts .

As for UdineseHowever, Cannavaro’s bitter debut does not however see the Friulians’ position in the standings changed, still on equal points with Frosinone (involved in the Friday evening advance match of the 34th round of Serie A against Salernitana) and very dangerous as far as it’s about the race for salvation.

The updated Serie A standings
Inter 86
Milan 69
Juventus 64
Bologna 62
Rome 58
Atalanta 54*
Lazio 52
Naples 49
Fiorentina 47*
Turin 46
Monza 43
Genoa 39
Lecce 35
Cagliari 32
Hellas Verona 31
Empoli 31
Udinese 28
Frosinone 28
Sassuolo 26
Salernitana 15
*one game less

ACERBI TOWARDS STAYING AT INTER, ALLEGRI-JUVE: ITALIAN DIVORCE. TOTO PANCHINA LEAVES FROM FLORENCE AND TURIN, BURDISSO TOWARDS ROME

Francesco Acerbi will wear the Inter shirt again next season. Simone Inzaghi has decided to sign the central defender for next season too: an agreement for the renewal of the contract, currently expiring on 30 June 2025, is very close.

Massimiliano Allegri and the objectives to be achieved, non-random references from the Livorno coach. In fact, in the event of qualifying for the next Champions League and winning the Italian Cup, Allegri would consider the season satisfactory. Consequently, it would be Juventus, which has long been identified in Thiago Motta the right name for the succession, to have to formally move for the separation from Max, who has no intention of making any discounts. In the meantime, Cristiano Giuntoli is moving: in the last few days a meeting with Adriano Galliani took place in Milan. The two managers spoke about the possible transfer Michele Di Gregorio, Monza’s goalkeeper who has been in the Juventus manager’s sights for some time and has been identified as Szczesny’s perfect heir. Monza liked Fabio Miretti in the past, there will be time and opportunity to talk about it again.

The Naples he is ready to change a lot in the summer and will do so in every department. Mario Rui’s agent has confirmed a future in blue for the Portuguese (we’ll talk about it in the next chapter), but the management is also working for a reinforcement in the lane: Aurelio De Laurentiis’ club has not in fact lost sight of Melvin Bard, left back of Nice, Francesco Farioli’s revelation. For the post Osimhen, the name of remains hot Jonathan David: Giovanni Manna – new sporting director of the Neapolitans from 1 July – has already met his agent. However, David is also an option for Milan, a club looking for Olivier Giroud’s heir. And in this light the new contact that has taken place in recent days between the Rossoneri management and Nick Mavromaras, the player’s agent, must be read. Alternatively, here are the hypotheses that lead Napoli on the trail of Artem Dovbik26 year old center forward for the Ukrainian national team playing for Girona, and to Terem Moffi (25 years old) also from Nice. For the defense, the big blue goal is Alexander Good morning.

Nicolas Burdisso will leave Fiorentina at the end of this season. The former Argentine defender has decided to distance himself from the current Lilies management for a role of greater responsibility elsewhere. A possible move to Roma, where Burdisso would find a great sponsor Daniele De Rossifresh from renewing his contract with the Friedkins.

The toto-bench is ready to go and sees in Vincenzo Italiano a name very welcome to several clubs. The current Fiorentina coach is at the top of Urbano Cairo’s list for the Turin that will come. Only if he does not reach an agreement with Italiano, who is also on Napoli’s list, would Cairo turn to alternatives. For the future of the Viola, however, the hypothesis that leads to Alberto Gilardino: The Genoa wants to keep the current coach whose contract expires and has presented him with a contract renewal proposal. The candidate leading the race to lead the Tuscans today is Alberto Aquilanian outsider might just be Ivan Juric.

Atalanta will redeem Charles De Ketelaere. The intention of the Orobic club is to complete the purchase of the Belgian footballer after the agreements defined with Milan a few months ago. In that occasion, Atalanta paid three million euros for the onerous loan and set the right of redemption at 26 million euros. For Milan, also 10% on any future resale.

Bayer Leverkusen looks to Italy. The Aspirins they put in their sights Riccardo Calafiori (21 years old) of Bologna, also followed by Juventus, for which, however, the Bolognese management has no intention of sitting down and listening to offers that are lower than 25 million euros.

XAVI REMAINS AT BARCELONA, CONCEICAO RENEWS WITH PORT. TOTTENHAM WANTS TO SECURE CELSO

Plot twist a Barcelona. After the announced farewell, Xavi he reverses his position and will remain on the Blaugrana bench for another year. A sensational innovation in some ways, which will also have repercussions on the domination of the benches of the big European teams expected for this summer. The Blaugrana coach explained his choice as follows: “It wasn’t a simple decision. In January I believed that my farewell was the best thing for the club, but yesterday we spoke very directly. I think the project is not over and that it can be a winner. I am convinced. Reviewing one’s decisions and being wise was a combination of reasons that kept me going, especially the trust of the sporting director and the players It’s not a question of ego, I just saw a lot of confidence.” At Camp Nou, Xavi could welcome Bernardo Silvawho would have decided to end his experience at Manchester City to move to Catalonia.

Sergio Conceicao has extended its contract with Porto until 2028, as the Portuguese club informs on its official website: “FC Porto and Sérgio Conceição have agreed to extend the contract, which binds them since 2017, until 2028”, writes Porto on own site. During his time on the bench at Do Dragao, Conceiçao won three championships, three Portuguese Cups, one League Cup and three Portuguese Super Cups.

Giovanni Lo Celso and Tottenham, work in progress for the future. The midfielder is part of the English club’s plans for the future and so negotiations could start soon for the renewal of the contract expiring in 2025. It is possible that Tottenham will put two more seasons on the table with an adjustment in the salary. Lo Celso is Barcelona’s idea and other clubs also like it. But Tottenham is moving, the objective is to lock them down.

Roma succeeded in the difficult feat of scoring a goal against Udinese in the 18 minutes plus added time of the match that remained to be played after the illness suffered by his defender Ndicka, and brings home three very important points from the away match in Udine in two acts.

Great protagonist Bryan Cristantewho in the first 72 minutes of 14 April had provided the assist for Lukaku’s head and this time instead he takes on the role of the battering ram, picking up Dybala’s touch (also already positive in the first part) to make the team explode with joy the Giallorossi people and relaunch with extreme determination their candidacy for a Champions League placement.

Daniele De Rossi is a mix of emotions after the match and if on the one hand he cannot fail to praise the group at his disposal, on the other he cannot ignore the unfavorable treatment received by the FIGC, in his opinion, due to the little rest given to his team before the first leg of the semi-final of the Europa League against Bayer Leverkusen: “I’m happy, it’s important for the standings and for morale: after the defeat against Bologna we were a bit down. We’re the only team to which our federation gives one day less to prepare the European match. The response of my players makes me feel calm, I have a team of wonderful men.” He would have preferred to play these 18 minutes plus injury time and didn’t want to hide it.

“The statement is the three points. This is the only statement.” Pep Guardiola This is how he responds to the cameras Sky Sports UKwho ask him for a comment after the resounding success of his Manchester City on Brighton’s Roberto De Zerbi: “We’ll be back home at 2am. Then the day after tomorrow we have to fly to Nottingham and then again. We know what we have to do to get to the end and try to fight to be champions. We’ve been in this position in the past, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to happen again. new. We have to do things to make it happen.”

About the match?
“We come here, we know Brighton’s strengths. In the first half, we found the right rhythm to play. We found Phil (Foden, ed.). We scored at the right moments and the first time we came close to doing so. Brighton away from home is always difficult. The Premier League teams know this.”

The title race?
“It’s difficult to catch up with Arsenal from a goal difference point of view. The margin is so big. They score a lot of goals, they don’t concede. The aim is to win the game. We have five games left, it’s a lot. One game at a time. They can many things can happen. What happened to Liverpool, against Crystal Palace and Everton, can happen to us. No one is safe from this. The players are still there. Now let’s recover and think about the next one.”

Next summer will see a sort of half-revolution in the geography of the benches of the big European teams. With the Liverpool who will have to find Klopp’s replacement and the Bayern Monaco who will say goodbye to Tuchel, there are many entanglements that could arise in this regard. However, there are some fixed points and in the last few hours two other certainties have arrived regarding next season.

After the farewell announced last January, in fact, Xavi he officially backtracked and explained how, after the meeting with president Laporta, he decided to stay at Barcelona: “You all know how much of a Barcelonista I am and I have always tried to do the best for this club. The important thing is the club, always. When we met with the president I put my role at his disposal, but up front I found enormous trust in me from everyone. The complicity of the players, who showed me and demonstrated that this project was also important It has to go on. We’re working well, it’s a winning project. And the fans also made me understand that I had to move on. In January I thought the best thing was to leave, but now I see everything differently this is the best decision”, explained the Catalan in a very long press conference.

Another bench that is already certain, barring different developments after the next presidential elections, is that of Porto. Sergio Conceicao he had been linked to various companies, especially English and Italian, but the future will still be with Do Dragao. In fact, in the last few hours the official renewal with the Dragoes until 2028 has arrived, an extension which effectively locks the former Lazio player into the club of his life.

The stadium in Bagnoli risks becoming a mirage, however Aurelio De Laurentiis and the Naples. For sure, it’s not a simple goal. It is to raise doubts Dino Falconiothe sub-commissioner appointed by the Government for the reclamation of the Bagnoli-Coroglio area, who spoke on Radio Mars: “In the meeting between Minister Fitto, mayor Manfredi and the president of SSC Napoli De Laurentiis, further investigations were arranged on the possibility of carrying out this undertaking. Faced with a new technical investigation I cannot anticipate the results, but I can say that there are strong urban planning, logistical, infrastructural and construction critical issues because we are in the middle of a seismic zone.

I have always indicated the logistical and infrastructural profile as the most serious critical issue to overcome not because they are unsolvable in the future but immediately or in the short term. To enter the territory of Bagnoli you have to pass two bottlenecks, namely Cavalleggeri D’Aosta, with Via Diocleziano which is already often blocked in itself, and Piazzetta Bagnoli on the other. The third entry route is the Coroglio descent. The connection system is therefore insufficient – currently only permitted by road and not by rail – because it does not reach the Bagnoli plain and it is an area without parking. However, if we think 10 years from now, we have different prospects for new infrastructures. An underpass should finally be built that will connect Bagnoli directly to the Agnano ring road junction, avoiding the entire town center underground. Furthermore, in the future there will be two metro stops and in general Smart transport should be strengthened.

It is necessary to distinguish between the construction of a stadium and that of a sports centre: from this last aspect I can say that there are very concrete margins that the home of Napoli could be built in Bagnoli because there are spaces that are already urbanistically intended for the Sports Park and which reach approximately 14 hectares. A substantial part of this former sports park is under negotiation for tennis but there is another portion, which corresponds more or less to the other half, which can be allocated to Naples football intended as a sports centre. The Paradiso centre, to which I am very attached, unfortunately has only one pitch while in Bagnoli there would be space available for new needs, with more pitches.”

L’Udinese remains in the relegation zone, and the race for salvation is played out point by point. It’s the story of A league, it will also be so in the five days remaining until the end of the championship. We remind you that in the event of a tie on points, direct clashes do not count but, as for the Scudetto, a possible play-off would be played. Practically certain, but not yet arithmetic, the relegation of the Salernitanawhich could arrive as early as tomorrow.

We tried to compare the calendars of the competing teams. For completeness we have included the Genoawhich however is very close to the arithmetic salvation in the top flight, as is the Lecce which currently has a reassuring lead of seven points. Thrilling match Frosinone-Udinese, currently tied for third-last, on the last day: if it ended like this, in the event of a draw they would then have to face each other again in the home and away matches. Away games are capitalized.

Genoa – 39 points

34th day: Cagliari
35th matchday: MILAN
36th matchday: Sassuolo
37th day: ROME
38th day: Bologna

Lecce – 35 points

34th day: Monza
35th day: CAGLIARI
36th matchday: Udinese
37th matchday: Atalanta
38th day: NAPLES

Cagliari – 32 points

34th day: GENOA
35th day: Lecce
36th matchday: MILAN
37th day: SASSUOLO
38th matchday: Fiorentina

Hellas Verona – 31 points

34th day: LAZIO
35th matchday: Fiorentina
36th day: Turin
37th day: SALERNITANA
38th matchday: Inter

Empoli – 31 points

34th matchday: ATALANTA
35th day: Frosinone
36th day: LAZIO
37th matchday: UDINESE
38th day: Rome

Udinese – 28 points

34th day: BOLOGNA
35th day: Naples
36th day: LECCE
37th day: Empoli
38th day: FROSINONE

Frosinone – 28 points

34th day: Salernitana
35th day: EMPOLI
36th matchday: Inter
37th day: MONZA
38th matchday: Udinese

Sassuolo – 26 points

34th matchday: FIORENTINA
35th matchday: Inter
36th day: GENOA
37th day: Cagliari
38th day: LAZIO

Salernitana – 15 points

34th day: FROSINONE
35th matchday: Atalanta
36th matchday: JUVENTUS
37th day: Hellas Verona
38th matchday: MILAN

“Napoli must start from scratch, choose the coach and start from there.” Thus to TuttoMercatoWeb.com the former midfielder of – among others – Catania and Chievo, Mariano Izco.

Who for the Azzurri bench?
“Conte would be the most appropriate choice: he has the strength to take on a team like the
Naples. But he is used to competing and we should give him a high budget.”

Milan could also change.
“Milan still fought until the end. I don’t think he did too badly. When you do well they always ask you for more. In these places, however, you don’t have time: if you do well you’re number one, if the results don’t arrive then they criticize you.”

His ex Catania is struggling.
“The Cup victory masked everything that went wrong. It gave peace of mind but it was a lie. It would have been better not to win it. Today Catania is in difficulty, with this squad it is impossible to find ourselves in this situation. You’re Catania, you have twenty thousand people every match: you can’t do that.”

How should Catania restart?
“In the meantime we have to see what will happen. There must be changes, starting from a sporting director and doing things right. We need to do a deep analysis and plan from Catania.”

Salvation is at stake in Terni Franco Carboni.
“He is fighting for safety, he is growing and doing very well. She has a lot of room for improvement. I’m happy.
Next year he will return to Inter and we will evaluate what is best for him.”

He’s changing agents. Is the market turning on?
“He wants to save himself with Ternana and doesn’t think about anything else. Today he hasn’t signed with anyone yet, just like his brother Valentin.”

The player must adapt to a position that is not suited to him. Or, the coach is forced to fall back on a player who is not inclined to his way of playing. Or even, the boy hasn’t settled into the locker room and the championship. And again, the coach wants players but the management continues with his choices. Far from clichés: every summer, in every team, there are constants that should not take place in multi-million dollar projects. Yet every day we come up against unpresentable ballots, with glaringly forced tactical choices, with signings that have very little to do with a tactical model (if there is one!) and with a specific team and style of play. Even in 2024, that of algorithms, in which so much should be calculated, where the magic word that we have already spoken about in the past and which should be at the basis and root of the foundation of every project is not taken into account. The Holy Grail of functionality.

The head hunter and the choice of the sports director
First piece of a project, the choice of the sporting director. And of all the men who surround him, clearly, from the director of the technical area to a scouting area that cannot be exclusively ‘of the club’ but work in full harmony with the transfer market man and have the same method as him. An example: Giovanni Sartori could never operate in clubs that start from big data to choose players, just as vice versa a club like Liverpool could never sign Bologna’s transfer man because it starts from more ‘scientific’ analyzes in its recruiting. American properties often underestimate what is a basic choice, i.e. that of the person who should then be entrusted with all the other key choices of the club. Now there are ‘head hunters’ from the United States (Charles Gould for Roma, one of the most famous) who propose and select profiles. Except that between the States and Italy there is an ocean in between and in this ocean there are personal relationships, methodology, the type of day-by-day work that no computer will ever be able to fully understand.

The choice of the coach and the Juventus case
What a reflection aloud. How can Juventus be halfway between the confirmation of Massimiliano Allegri and the choice of Thiago Motta? Such an important club should have already chosen, decided and above all communicated. This is regardless of the results, of all the flops this season, but because we are talking about two completely different philosophies. Is it just an economic question, for the salary that the Livorno coach has yet to receive? If this is the issue, moreover with the Club World Cup upon us, after yet another capital increase, then there is doubt about the future of the Juventus project. But since we don’t want to think that this is the case, then the judgment can only be negative due to the delay with which Juventus is deciding the future of its bench. In fact, it is not a question of choosing, as in the case of the aforementioned Liverpool, between Ruben Amorim, Roberto De Zerbi, Xabi Alonso and Arne Slot (he will go), all profiles with a similar identity and a daisy to browse through. No. Motta and Allegri are different planets, the fact that as of April 26th Juventus have not yet communicated the direction they will take is worrying.

How to choose a technician. How to market
Here we are at the handbook. How to choose the coach? How to market? The secret, we were saying, is functionality. A management, in harmony with the owners, must choose a coach who embraces the market, scouting and investment ideas of those who put money into the project and those who then go to buy the players. Not only. He must be perfect for the squad of players, in order not to deplete the capital already in the farm, he must know how to enhance them and not be forced to adapt to the best in the squad. Subsequently, the sporting director and the coach must establish the transfer strategy and market objectives together. Also in this case: it would be right and ideal for the coach to have his own ‘praetorians’, but it would be equally appropriate for him to indicate to the sporting director the ‘type’ of player necessary for the growth of the team and that this then, together with the scouting, found the suitable profiles to purchase. This is how some extraordinary shots are born, some intuitions that later prove decisive. Are there better midfielders than Koopmeiners and Ferguson in Europe? Clearly yes. Are there better defenders than Pavard, better goalkeepers than Sommer? Clear. But functionality is the secret of every project. Many examples that apply to everyone: Yerri Mina in Florence, playing Italian, was a fish out of water. In Ranieri’s low-line game, in the closed fortress of Cagliari, he proved to be a valuable player. And vice versa Arthur, who with Allegri was outside the box and who in purple proved to be a very different footballer. It’s about study, in-depth analysis and choices. All steps not to be missed. Even for those who will have to make decisive choices for the future on the bench, such as Milan, Naples and beyond.

The goals of Marcus Thuram And Lautaro Martinez. But also i clean sheets Of Yann Sommer and the penalties of Hakan Calhanoglu. In general, the emotions of the Scudetto rideInter Of Simone Inzaghi. A story still fresh in the fans’ memories, culminating in Monday’s triumph in the derby against Milan.

Anyone who wants to relive it as a film, however, will be able to do so. In fact, from today it is available on the platform DAZN for subscribers, a collection of the most significant moments of the Serie A season which ended with the final victory of the Nerazzurri, who took home the second star.