LIVORNO. It’s time for the transfer market. For the first time after three years, for different reasons, Livorno is perfectly on time and everything is there to build the team according to mister’s indications Paolo Indiani. The former Arezzo player was clear: «We will have to go into training camp with 90% of the squad ready», he declared in the opening press conference. So, after a couple of weeks linked to the agreement with the coach and sporting director, from today the negotiations for the players will get underway. The target? Building a group of great technical quality, but also with the right characteristics to be able to perform in a place like Livorno.
The departure, as can easily be predicted, will be from the confirmations. There won’t be too much to maintain from last year’s roster, but making a complete revolution would still be wrong. As mentioned in recent days, therefore, there should be seven-eight confirmations, as well as a couple of situations to be managed based on the multi-year contracts stipulated in the season just concluded. There will certainly be captain Andrea Luci in the middle of the field, as well as Brenna in defence, a man who with Indiani and Bicchierai has already won a promotion to Serie C as captain. Bellini and Camarà also had high percentages as they showed good things last season. A very likely encore also for Giulio Giordani, while the situations to be evaluated are those of Rossetti and Tenkorang. Both have contracts for next season, but above all the former Fano player has disappointed all expectations. Bicchierai and Indiani have the choice whether to terminate the contract with a severance package or whether to give the attacker a second chance. As well as evaluating the situations relating to Cesarini and Bartolini. For the rest, however, we will go on the market. As stated by Indians during the press conference, now the focus is more on quotas. All the teams aiming for a top championship want good young players, so we need to move immediately. First of all on the 2006s, at least three will be needed. And then the big shots will be needed, those capable of shifting the balance. A name of that caliber there is Federico Russo, a name that Livorno has thrown itself headlong into for some time. He is the first player indicated by the Indians to have a top-level striker. For the class of 1997 last two years in Serie C with Lucchese (2 goals in 25 games) and with San Donato (double figures reached). Always with the yellow-blues, led by Indians, he scored 20 goals in Serie D, fundamental for the historic leap in category of the Florentines. In these first days of the week it is reasonable to expect a decisive push from a top player in the category.
