Today’s edition of “La Gazzetta dello Sport” focuses on the future of Coda through an article by Nicola Binda.
The three days to exercise the redemption rights (from yesterday until tomorrow evening) have effectively opened the market for players. Half of Serie B is still looking for a coach, several clubs don’t even have a manager, so the problem of how to make the team is not yet a topical one. However, the first days of movement have not only confirmed (this is nothing new…) that attackers will be the rich dish on the market, but have opened up some scenarios which could have sensational developments as the weeks go by. And they could also decide the fate of next season. protagonists are three. And everything is moving towards Serie A: to be conquered on the pitch, obviously, or perhaps with the transfer market.
The ransom The news is precisely that a ransom has occurred. Brescia have exercised their right to buy striker Gennaro Borrelli from Frosinone for 3.5 million as agreed a year ago when they took him on loan. No negotiations, no discounts. Cellino wanted to take it home for three reasons.
First: Borrelli’s explosion in this season in Brescia justifies the investment. Second: the attacker, recovering from a serious injury, refused three calls for a medical check-up, effectively opening a polemical front to make it clear that he wanted a change of scenery, a desire that Brescia with the redemption showed that they did not share. Third: Cellino wants to form a team to return to Serie A and Borrelli is considered a strong point. At the cost of arm wrestling. So, if he really wants to leave, Brescia will raise their demands, also having to find a suitable replacement. Otherwise Borrelli will come to terms with it. For the record, Brescia also bought out goalkeeper Avella and today they will do the same with Dickmann (from Spal for 250 thousand euros).
Return If we talk about Serie B attackers, however, we cannot ignore the king: Massimo Coda. The loan to Cremonese is over, the return to Genoa will be effective from July. And then? The queue is forming at B. Cremonese does not deny their desire to take him back, Modena has inquired, Bari is thinking about making their disappointed fans dream, Salernitana is their favorite destination (he is from Cava de’ Tirreni) and then there is Palermo where plays his “brother” Lucioni who already last summer tried to convince him to come to Sicily. Coda turns 36 in November, but he will certainly be at the center of the summer auction. Provided that the unpleasant page of Benevento football betting that involved him ends positively: four players have already been referred, additional investigations had been requested for him which at the moment have not led to substantial developments. Coda was not affected, he took Cremonese to the playoff final by scoring 17 goals, and he isn’t finished yet: only 8 are missing for the Serie B record.
