Bologna moves forward with Di Vaio and Sartori: "The best move? Keeping our big players"

Now that the market is over, 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 were dispelled by the growth of Italiano, the group and the path. On this, however, the diesse Marco Di Vaio he doesn't stick his neck out, on the sidelines of the presentation of the new acquisition Estanis Pedrola: "This is not the place to talk about it. We are calm and both of us want to continue here. It is a delicate subject, everything 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 move forward with Sartori, who he called the man of the turning point: both the head of the technical area and the top management 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 the 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 talent Pedrola, young but looking for a relaunch and already familiar with 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.

In addition, something changed along the way. Di Vaio said: "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 return of the Germans and in the end he opted for Atalanta. Iling-Junior wasn't expected to leave, but he found a situation and then we arrived on Pedrola, which we had followed a lot last year, profile shared with Italian. Shared as well Calabria. We were following him and what happened with Conceicao gave us the opportunity to get there immediately."

The real blow, according to the sports director, was having resisted the attacks for Beukema, lucumi e Ursu: "They have had important offers. Castro? Nothing concrete, but interest yes. 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 reduced squad and space for those who are convinced of the rossoblù project. Like Fabbian: "He, like Erlic, has had requests, but he has not asked us to sell him". May the pursuit of Europe continue with a squad that is fully in character.