Belotti yes, Belotti no, Belotti maybe. The name of the former Torino, Roma and Fiorentina striker is the hottest in the last few hours on the Como market. And it must be said immediately that this is certainly a certain negotiation, which however has not yet had a definitive outcome, neither in one sense nor the other.
What emerged yesterday from very reliable market sources is that Roma, the club that has the player under contract until 2025, and Como have reached an economic agreement for the player’s move to the blue and white. There has been talk of a figure of around five million euros. Belotti would return to the Giallorossi club after a six-month loan at Fiorentina, but there is no desire to keep him in Rome.
The days of reflection
Among other things, his name had already been circulated last January, but the attacker’s choice was to remain in Serie A. And still, according to what has transpired in the last few hours, Belotti is apparently reflecting on what to do.
Given the same category, he would prefer a destination that also offered him the opportunity to play in some European cups. Normal market dynamics, especially when there are still fifteen days left before the opening of official negotiations and above all two and a half months until the market closes.
Certainly the fact that the news of an agreement reached has already spread at all levels, not denied by either of the two clubs involved, makes it clear that we are already well beyond the simple fact-finding contact.
A story that in some way, remaining at Como, can recall what happened with Alberto Cerri, even if his indecision whether to leave Cagliari or not was at the time linked to the difference in category, which in this case no longer exists .
Open question
So the case remains hot: very little transpires from Como, other than the fact that the question is open, but still a little far from the final decision, yes or no. Belotti, thirty years old, made his debut in Serie B at just 18 years old with Albinoleffe, scoring his first professional goal on his debut.
After two seasons at Palermo, one in Serie B and one in Serie A, he moved to Turin, the team that most marked his career with seven seasons in Serie A in which he scored over one hundred goals, reaching 26 in the 2016 championship. 17, first Italian in the scorers ranking.
In 2022 he moved to Roma, a less fortunate phase in his career with ten goals scored in a year and a half between championships and cups. In January the loan to Fiorentina, fifteen appearances and three goals. Forty-four of his appearances for the senior national team with twelve goals scored, he is among the Azzurri European Champions in 2021.
Como could be an important opportunity for him to relaunch, in recent days we had also read about his meeting with Cesc Fabregas, a detail that could ultimately prove decisive in the choice of the attacker. The question therefore remains very open.
