Raise the bar. There are no other roads than the Palermo wants (and can) go the distance to obtain, having reached the third year of CFG programming, promotion in A league.
The rosanero club began to follow a level track already with the appointment of the new coach, Alessio Dionisiwho in the last three years has been a protagonist in the top flight and who, in his last experience in Cadetteriaachieved the big goal with the triumph at the helm ofEmpoli.
And the choice that led to Viale del Fante also travels along the same path Morgan De Sanctiswho has been around Serie A for years now, first in Rome and more recently in Salerno.
It is not surprising, then, that one of the first negotiations conducted by the new management – with the decisive support of Riccardo Bigon – is being consumed in England, precisely in London, shore Chelsea.
The name circled in red is that of Cesare Casadeitalented midfielder born in 2003 who grew up in the youth teamInter before being sold (for its weight in gold) to Chelsea in the summer of 2022.
The director from Ravenna, who arrived at Stamford Bridge at 19, in his first season with the Blues was mostly used in the Premier League 2 playing for Chelsea U21, before being loaned to Readingin Championship, the English Serie B. With the Royals, relegated to League One at the end of the season, 15 appearances and 1 goal.
Returning to London, he was loaned again to the Leicester of the former rosanero of Enzo Maresca. With the Foxes 25 appearances, 3 goals and 2 assists, which was enough to be recalled in January 2024 to Chelsea by will of Mauricio Pochettino. In the return round Premier LeagueHowever, just 68 minutes played, spread across 11 appearances.
The evaluation of the young director is clearly prohibitive: in 2022 he will say goodbye to Inter for 15 million euros. A value that has not undergone major fluctuations in the last two years. This is why the Rosanero club is working to sign Casadei borrowed. However, the competition is there and it is fierce: even the Bologna of the “Sicilian” Vincenzo Italiano is on the trail of 2003. Emilia would be the director’s favorite destination: dressing the Red Blue it would allow him to return to Italy in one fell swoop and deal with the A league and with the possibility of playing the Champions. But without any guarantee of increasing his playing time which, since his move to the UK, has seen him on the pitch, between the Championship and very little Premier League, on average less than 45 minutes per match.
It will be a complex negotiation to say the least: Casadei he feels ready for the leap to the top flight and the margins to convince him for a year of B series there are very few. But there is the City middle. And less than 20 days from the start of transfer marketnothing seems to be precluded.
Side note: Casadei’s interests are looked after by the attorneys’ agency CAA Basicthe same as Matteo Prati, with which it certainly didn’t end well. But that’s another story.
