Modena Calcio: Andrea Sottil close to signing as new coach

The classic bureaucratic details to be ironed out, then the Modena will be able to proceed with the official announcements and the presentation, perhaps at the beginning of next week. Little, very little now, separates the canaries from Andrea Subtil, a name that has convinced all the Gialloblù managers for some time, despite having kept the door open on Luca D'Angelo, aware that it would be difficult to get to the coach, finally confirmed by Spezia. The new course will start from here, from the rock-solid character of the former Atalanta and Udinese defender, among others. Because among the prerogatives requested by Andrea Catellani and the Rivettis there was precisely this detail: a strong personality and solid identity, perhaps sacrificing the game, but only the pitch will tell us this. In the meantime, Sottil is becoming familiar with the city because the details and contracts are closed face to face, in person. We told you about the salary that, more or less, should be around 600.000 euros and the possibility of working on the two-year period as it was for Tesser and as it should have been, theoretically, for Bianco (since yesterday afternoon, also officially and not only in pectore, the new coach of Monza).

Among these famous details there will certainly be the requests regarding the next coach's staff. Sottil has always been followed by assistant Gianluca Cristaldi, already with him in Siracusa (from 2015 to 2017), in Catania (2018-19), in Ascoli (from 2021 to 2022), in Udine (from 2022 to 2024) and finally for the 14 games of the coach at the helm of Sampdoria in the last championship. It is easy to think that the two will not separate right in Modena, even if the canaries will then have to reflect on the role of Michele Troiano, assistant to Mandelli in the adventure in the first team, and it is not utopia that he can continue to be a technical collaborator.

Also to be considered is the figure of Matteo Tomei, the 40-year-old former Pordenone goalkeeping coach that Sottil had brought to Genoa. Modena, in that role, had and still has Andrea Rossi. The planets are slowly aligning. President Carlo Rivetti, during the last toast at the Green Lab in Kerakoll with the club's sponsors, wanted to reiterate a joke: "The primary objective is to regain the trust of our fans," he said to the microphones of Trc. Well yes, it definitely is after the boos that accompanied the entire month of May. And Sottil will also have the desire and the means to relaunch himself after the disaster (total, not only his) on the Blucerchiati side. The combination, at least in terms of common objectives, seems to be working. Waiting for the famous white smoke.