No headbutts and no strong stance by Riccardo Calafiori, and Bologna will not put any particular obstacles in his path either. If not a stake, that they will put, and a condition. Here is the stake: Calafiori won’t even have to ask to be sold to Juventus, and after all, his agent Alessandro Lucci is doing it almost daily without results. (with Claudio Fenucci, a lifelong friend), who as one can easily imagine has both Cristiano Giuntoli and Thiago Motta behind him. We are at the condition, which is the following: the intention of the rossoblù government, from president Joey Saputo on down, would still be to keep him for at least another year, adapting his current contract as is right, but faced with a pharaonic proposal from the Premier League, about 50 million euros just to be clearhere he could also revisit his position, realizing that it would become a very constructive deal for the club and at the same time also an extremely important opportunity for Calafiori. Because let’s be clear, it would also be unfair to prevent him from going to play in the most fascinating championship in the world and earning 4 to 5 million a year.
Bologna-Calafiori: the agreements and the deal
Here are the points that emerged from a conversation that took place between the parties in the last few hours according to information received from the player’s entourage, after Calafiori and his teammates from the national team returned to Italy. The first: the rossoblù winger is also ready to stay in Bologna, and not only because of the gratitude he has towards a club that has allowed him to return to being a great protagonist, but also because with Bologna he could always play in the Champions League, and this is not an insignificant detail. The second: it is useless to hide that faced with a very important opportunity both from a technical and economic point of view Calafiori would be happy to seize it on the fly, knowing also that Bologna at that point would not block his path. Moral: considering that the Premier League has already shown strong interest in Calafiori at Casteldebole, also in light of his great performances at the European Championships in Germany, the red and blue people should not cultivate too many illusions, because as the days go by today’s attentions could become official requests and we know the numbers that usually pop up when Premier League clubs move. An example: in 2021 Cristian Romero of Atalanta was paid 55 million euros from TottenhamIt is true that the Argentine had already played in Europe but it is equally true that Calafiori was born in 2002, and is a footballer who can do everything and not just defender, who steals your eye both when he runs and when he has the ball at his feet.
Bologna, eyes on Bijol and Balerdi
Of course, having understood the message well, Giovanni Sartori and Marco Di Vaio are working to find a possible replacement, not wanting to be caught unprepared later on. The most popular solutions concern Jaka Bijol, central defender of Udinese and the Slovenian national team, 25 years old, then Leonardo Balerdi, Argentine of Marseille, 25 years old, who the French club will sell after having practically closed Lilian Brassier of Brest (who was another target of Bologna) and Marin Pongracic, 26 years old, Lecce and Croatian national.
