“As long as I remain in command we will need to keep our feet on the ground and start again from the young people. This will be our policy, because I don’t want to deceive anyone.” We parted ways like this, with these words from the president of Cagliari Tommaso Giulini immediately after the mathematical salvation acquired by the rossoblù in Reggio Emilia against Sassuolo. Now though, with a Claudio Ranieri with less on the bench, summer is approaching and the island team is preparing for a transfer market that will have to have the contours of continuity and reconstruction, towards a new season where the objective will still be salvation.
Context
Everything to be decided: from the coach to the players who may be included in the project of the president Tommaso Giulini and the sporting director Nereo Bonato. Waiting to understand who the coach will be and his idea of the game. Not an easy choice in the area of Asseminello, both because forgetting Ranieri is an impossible task and because to raise the bar compared to the championship just concluded, the squad will need structure with players capable of providing greater continuity of results. And doing so by focusing almost exclusively on young people is not easy, to put it mildly. In fact, let’s retrace what Cagliari’s season was: a first round that was certainly insufficient, with only 15 points collected, the resignation threatened by Claudio Ranieri after the home defeat against Lazio, and rejected by the locker room, and a relegation that seemed very close on more than one occasion. The data: 3 wins, 6 draws and 10 defeats, with 17 goals scored and 32 conceded. The return round instead saw a positive reaction from the rossoblu: with the team gaining 21 points and a salvation that made and will make Mr. Ranieri’s work in Sardinia even more eternal and unforgettable.
Young people
Cagliari, partly since their relegation two years ago and partly as a project to create a new modus operandi on the market since last summer, as mentioned before, wanted to focus heavily on young players. In fact, the names of stand out in the current squad Meadows, Luvumbo And Sulemana, to name a few. The first, paid over 6 million and snatched from Palermo’s competition, is the real piece from which Cagliari would like to build a very young team, for the former Spal 1,970 minutes played in the season, and also an assist and the decisive goal in the clash salvation against Sassuolo. Zito, on the other hand, who, despite the Africa Cup of Nations being in the middle, was fundamental with his 4 goals and 6 assists in 30 games played and who above all is preparing to experience a negotiation session where he will be one of Cagliari’s possible treasures on the market. Finally Sulemana who, bought by Verona also as a surprise and with an investment of 4 million, confirmed himself as an excellent addition to the team’s future prospects in the middle of the pitch, and despite a few too many ups and downs he contributed to their salvation with 21 appearances and 2 goals. In short: foundations for the future. Starting from this concept, in the editorial team, we wanted to have fun and observed the best under 21s of the recently concluded Serie B. Those particular profiles that could fall within the scope of this type of market based on the green line for Cagliari. A bit as if we moved from the real transfer market to Football Manager. Tell us in the comments the under-21s from the academy that you would like to bring to Cagliari.
Alessandro Circati: central defender for Parma born in 2003, for him this year not only the victory of Serie B in his first year of participation in the cadetry, but also 29 appearances accompanied by a goal. He is also an Australian international and recently declared that he dreams of playing in the World Cup. The obstacle for Circati is the cost of the price tag and Parma’s will. However, for a Cagliari defense that awaits Mina’s uncertain future, it would be a good name from a future perspective.
Ange-Yoan Bonny: born in 2003, also playing for Parma in the role of modern striker and returning from a good season which included 35 appearances, 5 goals and 10 assists. His price tag is worth a lot, between 5 and 8 million, but the impression of him is that he is constantly growing and still has to demonstrate his real value.
Antonio Raimondo: born in 2004, central striker at Ternana on loan from Bologna. Despite the season that saw him relegated with the red and greens, his personal tally remains positive, with excellent data showing 38 games, 9 goals and 1 assist (one goal every 248 minutes). He has been in the sights of rossoblù observers for some time, but followed by half of Italy. Maybe with a creative formula between loan and redemption it would also be possible to see him in Cagliari.
Claudio Cassano: born in 2003, attacking midfielder for Cittadella, for him the numbers speak of 31 appearances, 3 goals and 3 assists, also his first and excellent season in Serie B, having just won the Primavera Italian Cup with Roma a year earlier. He has always had excellent years in the Giallorossi youth team, so much so that he is one of the most anticipated of his generation. Of all of them, he is the one with the most realistic price tag for the current management of Cagliari’s investments. Maybe it’s a little early for Serie A next year but if he were to explode definitively there is a risk of never signing him again.
Flavio Masala
