10/06/2024 12.40pm
There is a very interesting and hot summer ahead transfer market for the Cagliaribetween confirmations, possible departures and returns of the various loans. Red Blue which, as already said on several occasions this year, will focus on a market made up of young people. Policy based on the green line already adopted after relegation to Serie B two years ago. The island team, before knowing their fate on the bench for the aftermath Claudio Ranieri, will have to deal with various returns from loans. Standing out above all: Gaston Pereiro (in the last year of his contract with Cagliari), Razvan Marinfresh from a last-day save against Empoli and away from Sardinia for two years, and Christos Kourfalidissent on loan to Feralpisalò last summer, a team with which he was unable to reach safety in Serie B. It is useful to focus on the former Greek Primavera player to understand what type of season his in the academy was and what his chances were he will be able to have during the summer training camp to return to being a protagonist in the jersey Cagliari.
The data
The class of 2002, sent on dry loan to Feralpisalòrecorded very interesting data even far from the comfort zone of Cagliari. For him 29 games played with 3 goals and 2 assists. A haul not to be underestimated especially given the role played this season with tasks mainly as central midfielder and with a lot of work in the two phases, he who as a boy covered multiple roles even in more advanced positions on the pitch. Without forgetting that these are numbers found with a team that achieved a second-rate championship with various difficulties. However, the former player himself likes playing in the middle of the field a lot Foggiaas stated during the last one B series: “With my growth I feel more like a midfielder or a midfielder. Then I accept the position that the coach assigns me, and I am also willing to wear the goalkeeper’s shirt if necessary”. Phrases that clearly convey the player’s spirit and sense of sacrifice and attitude to work. One of the characteristics that most launched him into the first team in the rossoblù after the positive progress made inunder 19.
Future
It remains to be understood what the intentions of the Cagliari on him, with much of his future passing through the name of the new rossoblù coach. What seems certain is that Kourfalidis will be aggregated for the gathering of Asseminello and the subsequent summer retreat of the Sardinians and in the hot weeks of July they will play their cards to be confirmed in the top flight. He will have to fight in a crowded and also very young midfield, where the names of the various players stand out Antoine Makoumbou (one of the most used by Ranieri before his injury at the end of the championship), Ibrahim Sulemana And Matteo Prati. With the latter two being in all likelihood the pillars in the middle of the pitch on which the Cagliari he will want to build the new squad. We will see in this context if Kourfalidis he will still need to move on loan or he will remain in the rossoblù, considering that his contract expires in 2026 and that the player has repeatedly expressed his desire to remain in Asseminello. And above all remembering that the Greek was in Serie B in the year of his recovery with Ranieri he made 21 appearances (two in the playoffs), with one goal and three assists. Numbers improved this year in Salò and which could lead to a test attempt also in the top flight, perhaps as a second option from the bench. With Kourfa who in 2021-22 had already made two appearances in the top flight with the shirt of Cagliari (17 minutes total against Fiorentina and Atalanta).
Flavio Masala
