Bologna moves forward with Di Vaio and Sartori “The best move? Keeping our big names”

Bologna, 8 February 2025 – Finished the market, it's time to delve into the topic of the renewals of the market men. Also because the doubts at the beginning of the season about the new arrivals and the new Bologna have been dispelled by the growth of Italiano, the group and the path. On this, however, the sports director Marco Di Vaio does not commit himself, on the sidelines of the presentation of the new purchase Estanis Pedrola: “This is not the place to talk about it. We are calm and the will of both is to continue here. It is a delicate subject, everything that one says can be reported incorrectly but we are calm and we are moving forward. In any case, Fenucci spoke about it yesterday”.

The CEO reiterated his desire to go forward with Sartori, defined as the man of the turning point: both the head of the technical area and the top management have met in recent days to mutually express their desire to continue together. The signatures are awaited, based on the timing dictated by the ownership. Di Vaio follows the same line, although he defines the subject as "delicate". For almost three weeks, during the month of January, the sporting director of Bologna had dictated and preached a line: "We want to invest in young people, we are looking for Castro-style operations to anticipate the next market". Instead, the 28-year-old arrived Davide Calabria, leaving Milan with international experience, and the talented Pedrola, young but looking for a relaunch and who already knows Italy. Because at Casteldebole, between the technical and management staff, in the end the line of looking for players considered ready to improve the level of the team prevailed, given that compared to last year no big team has failed in the championship and is out of the race and Fiorentina does not give up and probably will not give up, increasing the contenders for the top 6 positions.

More, Something is changed during construction. Di Vaio's words: "The initial objective was to look for players in sensitive roles to invest in, but we didn't find the right profiles for us. Then situations of unease arose: Posch believed he had played little and requests arrived from Hoffenheim, Como, Atalanta, the Germans' rekindled interest and in the end he opted for Atalanta. Iling-Junior wasn't expected to leave, but he found a situation and then we arrived at Pedrola, who we had followed a lot last year, a profile shared with Italiano. Shared as well as Calabria. We were following him and what happened with Conceicao gave us the opportunity to get there immediately".

The real the coup, according to the sports director, was having resisted the attacks for Beukema, Lucumi and Orsolini: “They had important offers. Castro? Nothing concrete, but yes, there was interest. However, none of them put pressure on, everyone was happy to stay, a sign that we have sown well and the project is working”. Out with the unhappy, a smaller squad and room for those who are convinced of the rossoblù project. Like Fabbian: “Like Erlic, he had requests, but he didn't ask us to sell him”. May the pursuit of Europe continue with a squad that is fully in character.