Doubts and knots still to be resolved. The dichotomies that shackle the new Fiorentina
‘Dichotomy’, read, following theTreccani Encyclopedia, as a “rigid division or subdivision into two parts”. Fiorentina’s new season was born from these divisions and from these watersheds.
4 June 2024, the day of Palladino’s arrival at Fiorentina. We could, however, start the ‘new purple era’, right from today: June 30, 2024. After all, historians have always made similar artificial divisions, why not us too?
Today is a more than symbolic day. Out with the loans (Belotti, Faraoni, Maxime Lopez and Arthur), but above all out with the players whose contracts are expiring (Bonaventura, Castrovilli and Duncan). Some of Italiano’s favourites are leaving Fiorentina, perhaps and probably to make room for Palladino’s. Today and from today, we can truly ‘measure fever‘ of the new Fiorentina to understand the real ambitions and the project of Rocco Commisso’s company. But let’s start in order.
Project for young people or aim to win immediately?
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The conditions for taking both paths are there. On the one hand, Comuzzo, Sené and the returns of Dalle Mura, Lucchesi, Favasuli, Di Stefano, Pierozzi, Amatucci and Bianco can be added value and, why not, absolutely determining factors for the future of the team. The defeat of theItaly at Euro 2024, should make us think in this sense. What was wrong? Before the performances on the pitch, there was a lot of talk about the choices. They are missing and have been missed above all’leg players (resuming the words of Shoulder pads) and crucial players in the last 20 metres. For years there has been talk of the need to invest in young people, but Fiorentina, in addition to doing it splendidly with Viola Park, could and perhaps should demonstrate it by launching these boys onto the pitch, the fruit of the work and sacrifice of an entire club. Loans are formative if done rationally. Toss these guys around first in one team, then in another for several consecutive years, does not increase its growth, but perhaps it does to lose one’s bearings and that spark and flash of potential that only now they can express. Today Kayode is proof of this, both from a technical point of view and from the point of view and scope of market value (today it is worth 25 million after only one season). Having said all this, do we need to win right away? The last finals tell us that ‘we need to win right away’. Therefore, focus on experienced players of international calibre to compete, starting from 1 July, in every competition. It could be an option, just look at the growth policy of theInter in recent years. There has been much talk about the squad’s lack of longevity, but the facts speak of a Serie A won and a Champions League final achieved. Acerbi, Darmian, Mkhitaryan, Sommer were taken for minimal figures, but brought to levels never seen before (not to mention the 0 parameters).
