The Gosens affair gets complicated and the rossoblù go for Miranda
After a determined attack by Benfica for the left-footed former Atalanta player, Bologna promptly responded by going as far as offer a total of 9 million to Union Berlin which however continued to remain adamant about some details. First of all the evaluation remained at 10 million (2 of onerous loan plus 8 of obligation) but also the conditions for the mandatory redemption of the card: the Germans wanted them to be easily accessible while the rossoblù preferred them to be more challenging.
Despite the long work carried out also thanks to Gosens’ entourage, who would have liked to return to Italy, the negotiation fell through and Bologna has broken the deadlock on another objective.
Miranda grew up in the Barcelona youth system
Within a few hours he convinced the Spanish full-back Juan Miranda24 year old who will be released tomorrow, Sunday 30 June, from Betis Seville and who was already in Casteldebole for medical visits. He will sign a four-year contract: three years plus an option for the following season. A real blitz with which the technical director Sartori, who had followed him at the time of Atalanta, easily beat the offers of Porto, West Ham and several Italian teams who had been monitoring the outside for some time: above all Roma, Juventus and Milan, who had thought about buying it already in January.
Born in Olivares and grew up in the Barcelona youth system, Miranda made his debut for the Blaugrana in 2018, also playing a Champions League match against Tottenham, then he was one year on loan to Schalke before moving to Betis in 2020.
In the list of players called up for the Paris Olympics
A full-back with a good physical build (185 cm and 71 kg), he made 111 appearances in total for the green and white shirt with 8 goals and 11 assists also playing in Europe and Conference League and was the protagonist of the entire climb in the Spanish youth national teams up to the Olympic one. Miranda is on the list of those called up for Paris and Bologna will have to accept not having him available until mid-August, not being able to anymore oppose the call as in the case of the attacker Castro, requested by Italiano for retirement.
Holm taken permanently, Zirkzee towards Manchester United
Even more so given that the matter linked to the future of Joshua Zirkzee should be resolved shortly with the activation of the termination clause by a claimant (Manchester United ahead) and at that point Bologna will have to find a replacement. For the rossoblù attack, the name of Fotis Ioannidis stands out (for whom an offer of 20 million has already been presented to Panathinaikos), followed by Burkardt of Mainz and Dallinga of Toulouse. Finally it was made official the permanent purchase of Emil Holm from Spezia: four-year contract for the Swede.
