Today’s edition of Tuttosport focuses on the Palermo construction site awaiting Dionisi’s choices.
At work to build the new Palermo, trying to satisfy Dionisi’s “desires”. There is a good starting point, the new sporting director De Sanctis is moving to develop the football idea of the coach who must bring Palermo back to Serie A. The objective is that from when we return to play. The retreat is two weeks away and by then we hope to have an almost complete workforce, even if we will continue to work on the market until the gong. Dionisi follows De Sanctis’ work closely and already this week we will know something more about how the coach intends to play next season and also about the line dictated to his sporting director. In the next few days, presentations of both the coach and the sporting director are scheduled, both will have to face a barrage of questions, such is the curiosity about the new Palermo.
The latest news in chronological order concerns the goal, where there is a current starter (the “baby” Desplanches) and another goalkeeper (Pigliacelli) who has no intention of being a deputy. Tangled situation, but Palermo has knocked on Catanzaro’s door for Fulignati who is also a former rosanero. In exchange, Pigliacelli was offered to the Calabrians, plus an economic compensation. Put like this it would seem like everything is downhill, but it isn’t. Firstly because Catanzaro would not want to deprive itself of its goalkeeper (Aquilani, who could coach the Calabrians, has already asked its president to confirm the No. 1), then because Fulignati wants precise technical guarantees. A return to Palermo would be a welcome thing, but as long as we start on an equal footing with Desplanches, a scenario that would not appear easy to achieve: the Rosanero club invested so much in the Under 21 goalkeeper a year ago, to the point of wanting to make him a permanent fixture for the next season, even if in fact he remained on the sidelines for almost the entire season and was only tested at the end of the championship. Therefore, the deal would be uphill (Fulignati also has other requests from Serie B).
Dionisi is certainly vigilant, the coach has always worked with young players and has also enhanced several of them at Sassuolo, but that of the goalkeeper is a delicate role and it is clear that he too (like Fulignati) asks for guarantees from the club. And the same goes for other roles that are key to his way of playing. It is no coincidence that Palermo is trying to squeeze in Carissoni (a wild card for the low lanes) and Vandeputte (a high quality winger). Even in this case, however, these are difficult negotiations, Cittadella and Catanzaro have shot quite high for their players. Instead, pay attention to Edoardo Iannoni, 23 years old, promising Perugia midfielder, Palermo would compete for him against Cremonese. Brunori question. The attacker expressed his stomach ache, asking to be sold to Serie A, but to Palermo so far no concrete offers have arrived and the request (6-7 million) rightly scares potential buyers. The captain waits, Dionisi too. The Palermo construction site is open.
