Last effort on the pitch tomorrow against Perugia for a Cesena team that has put promotion on ice for a month already. But if the curtain finally falls on the championship this weekend, plans and strategies could be defined not only for the 2024/2025 Serie B season but also for the next three years.
Between yesterday and today the arrival in Romagna of the American management was completed, arriving to celebrate the promotion, but also to attend a series of programmatic meetings that had been on the agenda for a few days.
In reality, future planning at this point becomes a task that can no longer be postponed, also in order not to squander the temporal advantage given by having secured the victory of the group well in advance.
First of all, the objectives must be defined, in the short and medium term, and based on these, the budgets must be established as well as the men who will have to translate the plans written on paper into concrete results.
The construction of the team that will face the cadet tournament, barring earthquakes, will still be the task of Fabio artigianato who will increasingly rely on the collaboration of Omar Milanetto.
There is also the coach knot to untie in cascade. Domenico Toscano has another year on his contract, but he too is waiting for reassurances on his position, he would like an extension at least until 2026, more technical guarantees on the squad, otherwise he could also decide to evaluate other offers which are certainly not lacking. Padua and Triestina are insistently looking for him in Serie C, but he would also have some admirers in Serie B.
Among the ‘arrivals’ of these hours there is also that of Jurgen Klinsmann, who could therefore become part of the corporate structure. It also seems probable that Massimo Agostini, whose contract is expiring, will be confirmed in the workforce, including with top management roles.
Meanwhile, finishing training at the Orogel Stadium Manuzzi this morning for the Juventus squad in view of tomorrow’s match against Perugia. Matteo Piacentini and Alessandro Giovannini will certainly be missing, still struggling with physical problems, but a big question mark also concerns Cristian Shpendi who has already missed the match against Recanatese and the away match in Sassari due to a knee problem. For the whole week the center forward born in 2003 trained with a differentiated protocol. The intention, however, is to grit our teeth and try to be there. The objective for him is twofold: to defend the title of top scorer in Serie C, Shpendi leads the ranking of goalscorers with 20 goals ahead of Claudio Morra from Rimini, Jacopo Murano from Picerno and Cosimo Patierno from Avellino all on 19, and to try to attack the record of 22 goals (1995/96 B season) scored in the space of a season with the Cesena shirt currently in the hands of ‘Bisonte’ Dario Hubner.
