In a scenario characterized by a thousand controversies also linked to the choice of Marco Baroni as the new technical guide for the Biancocelesti, it is also through the summer transfer market session that Lazio will be able to try to win back the many disappointed people, who will gather next Friday in protest after the developments of the last few days. Profiles suitable for football of the former Hellas coach, combined with the attempt to re-evaluate the profiles arrived during the past summer: these seem to be the intentions of Lazio, for a project that inevitably downsizes a team that every year was accustomed to playing their chances for access to the Europa League, hoping for the Champions League thanks to the slip-ups of higher-ranking competitors.
With the first part of this June seeing the Biancoceleste club close to profiles like that of Tchaounawaiting to understand how we will move in midfield to replace everyone Kamada and in all likelihood Luis Albertolet’s go back to what was the first transfer market session with Lotito at the helm of Lazio, when in just over a month we will officially enter the twentieth year of the current management.
Purchases
There session 2004-2005 is remembered for various factors: from the arrival of a very young man Goran Pandevupon his return to Rome Paolo Di Canto, passing through the day in which nine players were acquired in order to give Domenico Caso, then Biancoceleste coach, an adequate squad for the season that was about to begin. Two footballers also arrive in Formello who will remain in the Biancoceleste jersey for several years: Sebastiano Sivigliafresh from his experiences with Atalanta and Lecce, who will remain in Rome until 2010; Tommaso Rocchia striker owned by Empoli at the time, who in the following years would write important pages in the history of Lazio, remaining there as a footballer until 2013, for years in which he enriched the Biancoceleste’s palmares with an Italian Cup and an Italian Super Cup.
The flops
If profiles like those of Pandev and Rocchi represented investments of absolute value in the medium to long term, the same cannot be said for the real meteors that arrived in Rome in the summer of 2004, some of which arrived in Rome precisely in last day of the transfer market: players like Braian Robert or Esteban Gonzalez or Brian Robertrather than items like Mea Vitali or Talamonti they didn’t exactly become key players in the years to come. Some, however, managed to make the most of the opportunity, laying the foundations for a career at high levels in the following years: this is precisely the case of Talamonti, who in 2005 returned to his homeland to wear the River Plate shirt, only to then leave again from Serie A, remaining at Atalanta for five years.
Among the various purchases of that year, the arrivals of the twins are also worth mentioning Anthony and Emanuele Filippini. entered the hearts of the Lazio fans, and elements such as Anthony Seric, now agent of the former Lazio coach Igor Tudor, who a few days ago officially resigned as the Biancoceleste coach.
We will see with which market choices Lazio will try to please Marco Baroni, a technical guide who on paper will not present himself in the same way as Maurizio Sarri and Igor Tudor.
