A little over a month has passed since that historic promotion in A league which has illuminated As. A fantastic night that the Larian fans will never forget. The race in Serie B It was exciting and second place behind Parma brought a verdict that Como certainly imagined, but perhaps not with this speed.
Since the last refoundation in 2017, ambitions have grown exponentially. The Como-based company has experienced two seasons in Series Das many in Series C and three in all Serie Bwith two consecutive 13th places before the second place that in the 2024-25 season gave them promotion. How is the club preparing for the top Italian division? What is the goal to achieve?
Arrived to play, his evolution on the bench coincided with that of Como, and it certainly cannot be a coincidence. Cesc Fabregas he officially retired in 2023, but as his wife told Giorgia Cenni and reported by the Sky journalist herself “he was already a coach when he was a player”. It was expected from his way of being on the pitch, from the tactical intelligence expressed throughout his career, and in the context of the Xavi, Arteta and Xabi Alonsowe can now say that imagining him as a winning coach comes quite naturally. A winner, but with his feet on the ground, at least as far as Como is concerned.
“We are a very serious company. The owners are a family with clear ideas and we need to push but in the right way. The goal for next year is stay in Serie A and then we’ll see where we go, but I think it’s important to understand that we’ve grown very quickly. So feet on the ground, work hard and create a structure. We know where we want to go in the future and the ambition is obviously high but everything at the right time with a lot of humility and work”.
Cesc Fabregas a SkySport – Cala di Volpe, European Globe Soccer Awards
Humility and work to achieve salvation, goal to achieve for the historic return to Serie A. Something that many newly promoted teams have in common, but on the market…
“We are looking in some specific positions where we need and need to improve. I am happy with the guys, but as I always say, football waits for no one, we did very well but it is already part of history. A new thing begins that must be done with a lot of emotion. The pitch speaks and they must show that they are capable of playing in Serie A. In this sense I am very calm because we are creating a strong team”.
We will find out in about a year what Como’s value will have been in the 2024-25 season. Now let’s try to find out what team the club is building to achieve the goal of staying with Fabregas on the bench.
The market session started off quite strong. Marco Curto, Matthias Barunöder, Ben Lhassine Kone and especially Gabriel Strefezza have been officially redeemed. They have been joined by two important moves that will change at least 2/11 of the probable starting lineup for the season that will start in less than two months.
Andrea Belotti will be the new Como striker. The shirt number has yet to be announced, but in the meantime the gallo has been made official as a new signing available to Fabregas. A striker who has cost 4.5 millions to the club, which is coming off a couple of difficult seasons, but which is still among the few in Italy with more than 100 goals in the top Italian league.
The club followed up his purchase just a few days later with the signing of Alberto Dossena. An opportunity seized with 8 million deposited in the coffers of the Cagliari to transfer him to Como. After a season as a protagonist with Claudio Ranieri, the defender born in 1998 in Brescia and raised in the youth teams ofAtalantais an excellent move for the present and future of a club that has already presented itself ambitiously to its competitors in the transfer market.
The minimum objective, unless there are new updates in the next conferences, remains safety and Fabregas has already made it clear that this is a project whose timing must be respected. However, with the transfer market season having started only a couple of days ago, Como has already spent around 20 million of euros between buyouts and new signings. If we have to make a virtuous comparison of recently promoted teams, the first example that comes to mind is undoubtedly that of Monzacapable of consistently placing itself at the foot of the European positions in a couple of years. Will the Como club also succeed in doing so in such a short time?
