“I have a family and if I get an offer full of prestige and money, I’ll leave the house and the puppets!”. This is how Thiago Motta, coach of Bologna football who makes the whole city dream, should respond, once and for all, to those who ask him whether or not he will stay with the rossoblu club if he reaches a European position. But no! He likes to repeat in interviews “I think about the present”. In doing so it’s a bit like having fun keeping Bologna and its fans on edge who are neither shacks nor puppets.
Giancarlo Maini
Beppe Boni responds
It’s football, baby. The coaches are always sitting on a constantly spinning carousel. They generally change their shirts faster than the seasons. It is the system that is designed this way. Offers and counter-offers, whoever pays best wins. Therefore it is not surprising if Thiago Motta, the leader of the Bologna of miracles who gallops confidently in the standings in fourth place, is kept under observation by renowned clubs. According to reports from the football transfer market, he is in the sights of Juventus and Napoli and other super clubs in Spain and France. Everything according to script. When a coach launches a team like Bologna that didn’t have great ambitions and makes it a high-ranking club, it’s obvious that some big club can make an offer. But it is understandable that to this day Thiago Motta keeps his mouth shut and does not say anything. Also because all roads are still open, including a possible stay in the rossoblù. But any declaration now could create discomfort for the team and in a happy moment like this it is better that it doesn’t happen. Then you have to take into account that if Thiago packs his suitcase for Turin he will take some players with him. The world of football is like this, at the end of each championship the cards are put back in the deck. Whatever happens, Bologna dreams and therefore they have already won their scudetto.
