Self Fotis Ioannidis will become a Bologna player, it will be the most expensive purchase in the history of the rossoblù club. The bar set so far by 18 million Muse Barrow has already been surpassed by the first offer that Bologna sent to Panathinaikos for the 2000-born center forward: 18 million plus 2 in easily reachable bonuses, for a total of 20.
They are not enough. Just as the 25 offered by Ipswich Town were not enough, but with an asterisk: several variables (including the permanence of the newly promoted club in the Premier League) with a decidedly lower fixed quota of the offer. The Athens club has taken its time so fartrusting that at least one other English club will come into play (West Ham, it seems) which has followed the player closely in recent months.
Whoever holds back, whoever woos him
Meanwhile, there is one less opponent on the rossoblù’s path: è Sporting Lisbon, the club that had moved first on the attacker and that does not intend to go beyond 20 million for Ioannidis: in these hours the Portuguese champion club is diverting its attention on the Japanese Ueda of Feyenoord. An important point, but Panathinaikos continues to shoot high – from Greece they claim that they want 30 million, an impossible figure for everyone – and Bologna tries to exploit the contractual agreement already standing with the player, who wants to play the Champions League.
The rossoblù They have been working on the dossier for days and they are ready to break the deadlock by seeking the definitive assault: a new offer is being studied for the class of 2000, with a base of 22 million euros plus some bonuses. Two or three million, which will be the focus of the negotiations in the next few days.
Gosens and Holm candidates for a full-back role
Next week, then, will be the key one for the additions in the full-back role: Robin Gosens left and Emil Holm on the right are the two strong candidates. On the ex-Atalanta German, the parties continue to get closer and Bologna wants to move quickly, knowing that Gosens would prefer to return to Italy compared to the proposal from Benfica, in Portugal: once the obstacle of the formula has been overcome – it will be an obligation to buy – the terms remain to be finalized cheap with Union Berlin and is likely to close at 8 plus performance bonuses.
On Holmwho returned to Spezia after Atalanta’s failure to redeem him for 8.5 million, Bologna is ahead but Juventus’ interference move (probably not accidental, buzzing the rossoblù wall on Thiago Motta Riccardo Calafiori’s goal) should be noted , who could take the Swede and “park” him on loan at Genoa to let him play a season as a starter.
Bologna and Spezia on Monday they will meet to lay the foundations of the economic agreement for the card, given that the general contractual agreement already exists with the player’s entourage (the agent is Minieri, with whom the rossoblù have excellent relations).
The Primavera team market
Finally, after the Polish full-back Jakub Krzyzanowski of Wisla Krakow, Bologna is still looking abroad for strengthen Spring who will play in the Youth League: negotiations underway with Partizan Belgrade (they have to beat PSV Eindhoven, but the rossoblù have an open channel after the Ilic deal) for the 2006 class Every Ugresican attacking midfielder who in his homeland is defined, perhaps a little pompously, as “the Serbian Bellingham”.
