Sampdoria will buy Leoni from Padova and sell him to Turin who will let him on loan

While waiting to make Pietro Accardi official as the new sporting director (the Sampdoria club aims to close by the weekend), the Sampdoria already think about the market. As we read in the columns of Tuttosport, the first move will be to redeem the young man Giovanni Leoni. The little boy who arrived from Padua in January he immediately impressed Pirlo, who used him often and willingly from the first minute: the Sampdoria club will pay 1.5 million euros into Padova’s coffers (the amount set for the redemption), but the player will then be sold to Turin for a sum close to 4.5 million euros, while remaining on loan to Sampdoria for another year.

As the sports newspaper writes, cutting a young prospect is a market sacrifice aimed at allowing the club to move on the negotiations coming up during the summer, avoiding the constraints of the post-debt restructuring period after the twelve-month corporate rescue does. An “emergency” phase from which the company led by Matteo Manfredi has yet to definitively emerge. There are many potential targets – from Fulignati to Guarino, passing through La Mantia and Borrelli – but Sampdoria will also have the obligation of the active balance in this session.