What will he do Nico Mannion? To the question that the fans of the OpenJobMetis Varese and fans of LBA Mannion himself responded, interviewed immediately after the painless home defeat against Treviso.
Alessandro Burin, on the “columns” of Varese Sportsthus collected the sentences of Red Mambawhich can also be found in full in the video version, on an assessment of the Varese experience in 2023/24 and on the future prospects of Mannion himself: Varese and the national team, everything on the table.
It is important to have reached this goal but I think we all have much higher goals than salvation. We are not happy with how we played, we know that we have one more match to end the season with a victory and we will try in Pistoia.
I like Varese a lot, I have rediscovered the joy of playing basketball here and it has a special place in my heart. Let’s see what will happen, this environment is perfect but, I repeat, I don’t know what I’ll do yet.
I am very happy to return to the national team with my teammates, coach Pozzecco, all the staff and now let’s try to go to the Paris Olympics.
Mannion didn’t get too excited, understandably so, given the commitments that cannot define his season which is still over. May Mannion’s will be to test himself again on a slightly higher level than what the European cups and Varese’s investments could guarantee him it is well known. His contract currently includes an escape clause, exercisable by Mannion himself, in the event of agreements with NBA franchises or EuroLeague clubs: for all other companies wishing to sign him, it would be necessary to go through the Varese management and agree on the payment of a buyout , probably not the cheapest.
During the season, also due to Pozzecco’s arrival in France, Orazio Cauchi had mentioned in the Premium Chat of Backdoor Podcast on Telegram about an outline of a negotiation betweenAsvel and the player’s entourage, still under contract with Baskonia, without however arriving at details or a concrete closure due to economic reasons with the Basque club. Imagining that the interest of some EL teams has disappeared over the course of a season, even more so after the figures and some of Mannion’s performances in the Varese shirt, is utopia. The question mark, however, is destined to remain for a while: what will he do Nico Mannion?
