Alex Casella also has other requests on his plate – starting with that of Ascoli (who are also considering former defender Emanuele Righi) – but all the signs point to the white smoke with Spal. Maybe next Tuesday, when the meeting with Joe Tacopina is scheduled to define the final details and finally start planning next season. The sporting director remains at the window, aware that the conversation with the president will now make the difference. The arrival of Tacopina will also serve to clarify the other situations, starting from the position of Corrado Di Taranto who, after having completed his work on the various hot fronts – from the evaluation of the applications to take Filippo Fusco’s place at the helm of the area technique in the race against time to register for the Serie C championship – he will probably leave Ferrara to move to Cesena, where he would put himself to the test in the academy.
A club like Spal with a president who lives and works in the United States most of the time, however, certainly cannot remain without a reference manager within the club, so Di Taranto’s departure will absolutely have to be filled as soon as possible possible time. Therefore, if there is light at the end of the tunnel for the technical area, there is another problem for President Tacopina to solve.
In the meantime, today is also and above all the last day to exercise the redemption rights. Both incoming and outgoing, therefore, official news is awaited on the various fronts still open. Tonight we will therefore know first of all whether Nicola Dalmonte will still play for Spal or will remain at Vicenza, who could then move him to Serie B where he has numerous requests.
Unfortunately, it is precisely the latter that is the prevailing feeling, with the company in via Copparo which without a manager of the technical area is about to give up the option at its disposal. Until the gong, however, everything is possible: with a sum of around 200 thousand euros you can still secure a higher level player. A sacrifice that can shift the balance of the new Spal. Otherwise, we hope that that sum can be reinvested by the new sporting director to sign an equally important player, in line with the coach’s requests. As for the other operations, other incoming buyouts are to be excluded, while Brescia should formalize that of Lorenzo Dickmann who will therefore definitively leave Spal after six years (he had arrived in Ferrara in the summer of 2018). Redemption rights, sporting director and coach: from today to next Tuesday we will finally start to get serious. The blue and white people deserve clarity.
Stefano Manfredini
