A long day of appointments, but others will follow. Alexander Knaster began to address all the hot topics of the moment together with the president Giuseppe Corrado and the general director Giovanni Corrado. Sports director, coach, but also the squad and issues so dear to fans such as season tickets and new shirts. The issue of Esse is a priority on the Nerazzurri agenda. Nothing has been decided yet and the Pisa management is examining the various profiles followed. However, Luciano Zavagno will not be the new sporting director. For the moment, the former Nerazzurri player will still remain with the City Group in South America. The favorites remain the three profiles Giuseppe Magalini, current sporting director of Catanzaro, Mattia Baldini, former technical coordinator of Sampdoria and Giovanni Rossi, fresh from leaving Sassuolo.
“Here I lived a dream”, Rossi himself declared in his farewell conference, opening up to other adventures. Renzo Castagnini wouldn’t be completely out of the picture either, in any case with a one-year contract in Brescia, but he might prefer to get closer to his family in Reggello, near Florence, and Pisa could be a welcome solution, regardless of what has emerged in recent days. In short, the sporting director issue remains pending, awaiting the official separation from Stefano Stefanelli. In particular, regarding Giuseppe Magalini, a meeting with the president of Catanzaro was expected yesterday, but Noto is still out of town until Thursday, as is the Giallorossi director himself, who remained in Northern Italy.
Will Pisa wait for Magalini or will they turn elsewhere? We will only understand in the next few days. The coaching question then remains to be defined. In fact, Alberto Aquilani risks being left without a team. Confirmation for the coach seems increasingly difficult after such a negative season, from various points of view, not just the results. The Nerazzurri club would thus have tested the waters for some technicians, one of whom is Filippo Inzaghi and, indeed, it would emerge that Pisa’s interest is much more concrete than that of Verona, after the club was close to signing him in the summer of 2022 . Aquilani would thus risk being left without a team.
On the one hand, Fiorentina is about to make Raffaele Palladino official, on the other, Sassuolo has turned to Fabio Grosso, but in the last few hours Reggiana have become interested in the ‘predestined’. Meanwhile, the next sporting director will have a difficult task, that of thinning out a squad of almost 50 players. In this sense, the double injury of Christian Sussi with Fiorenzuola and Susso Bamba in Slovenia in recent weeks is sensational. The first broke his cruciate before being relegated with the Emilians from Serie C, while the second suffered a collateral injury and had to undergo surgery. Both increase the number of injuries due to injury beyond statistics, which have occurred at Pisa in the last two seasons.
Some more details also emerge on the possible return of Ernesto Torregrossa to Brescia, which would be sensational. The attacker was in fact at a wedding in the Brescia area and would have awakened the interest of the owner Cellino. However, there is a huge obstacle to bringing him back to Lombardy, the economic question. The player’s salary and price tag would be high and the Rondinelle would have to sit at the negotiating table with the Nerazzurri managers.
