The summer transfer market session will officially begin on Monday 1 July. New coach Moreno Longo’s Bari will inevitably have to redo their look after the last disastrous season. The new red and white sporting director Giuseppe Magalini is called upon to do a super job as he himself declared in the presentation press conference last week: “There is a lot to do but all this doesn’t scare me” he declared. The usual phrases of circumstance seasoned with healthy realism because Bari has very few elements to count on considering the many loan players who have left and the almost total absence of redeemed players (Sibilli aside): Nasti, Brenno, Guiebre, Edjouma, Koutsoupias, Acampora, Puscas, Diaw, Kallon and Aramu are now a thing of the past.
To date, between 10 and 15 players are needed to make the Bari 2024/25 squad competitive, without forgetting that coach Longo declared in the press conference that he wants an almost complete squad for Roccaraso’s training camp which will begin on 10 July . In short, translated into a nutshell, the red and white club should make at least 8 members official in approximately 10 days, almost 1 new arrival per day. A truly titanic undertaking even just from a numerical point of view, without forgetting that the new additions will necessarily have to be ‘weighed’ also from a qualitative point of view.
In order to bring quality players to the Abruzzo retreat, the De Laurentiis family will necessarily have to dig into their pockets. In a press conference, Luigi De Laurentiis spoke of an unchanged budget compared to last season: a detail not to be underestimated, especially because in this transfer window, Bari will not be able to count on the “Caprile – Cheddira treasure” as happened a year ago, even if, contrary to what was declared by president Luigi De Laurentiis, not all the proceeds from the sale of the two red and white jewels were invested in the transfer market.
The Bari transfer market will inevitably be divided between suggestions and reality. As usual, there are many names circulating. If we refer to realistic operations, we cannot help but focus on the arrivals of Ambrosino And Sgarbi via Napoli: two players liked by Magalini and Longo and who would come from the De Laurentiis first team. It is no mystery that Magalini also likes them Mazzocchi, a striker owned by Atalanta. However, it is difficult to get to the Juventus school side, Mattia Compagnon: There are several clubs about him. Then there is the suggestion Massimo Coda, one of the forbidden dreams of Bari fans for several years: the player, who returned to Genoa after his loan to Cremonese, would be in the sights of the red and white club, but in the end he could end up in Salerno. For the defense we think of the expert Kevin Bonifazi, footballer owned by Bologna with an important salary and therefore not within the reach of Bari. And then there is the romantic idea that leads to the Bari Anthony Partipilo protagonist with Parma in the last cadet championship: the attacker would like to start his retirement with the ducals to play his chances in Serie A too. Operations which therefore cannot be developed in the short term. Also for the advanced department, the names of have been circulated Cerri, Ciano and Biasci. Magalini will also have to think about a new goalkeeper to join Pissardo: Rinaldi, Micai, Desplanches and Pigliacelli the most popular names with the latter more within the reach of the Strada Torrebella club. To strengthen the defensive department we are thinking of Curto of Como. However, the one linked to the name of will remain a mere suggestion Pedro Mendes: there are clubs from the top league, but also foreign ones, on the Portuguese side: in short, imagining him in red and white would be risky to say the least. Happy transfer market everyone!
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