Sassuolo, three grafts before the 'gong'. Verdi, Bonifazi and Mazzitelli returns

by Stefano FoglianiSASSUOLOGA long, hectic day, not without surprises, the last of transfer market of the Sassuolo, which closed (outside of metaphor) the winter window not without bangs, adding to what had been perfected before yesterday – the purchase of Skjellerup e Velthuis, the transfers of Kumi, Caligara, Miranda e D'Andrea – the landing in black and green of Simone verdi, Luca mazzitelli e Kevin bonifazi and the transfers of Janis Antiste e Flavio Russo.

It's true that the Sassuolo had aimed Palumbo of the Modena e Basic of Lazio, without obtaining anything, it is equally true that the plan B put in place by the black-green market men has produced what it was supposed to. From Como, from which the Sassuolo had already taken, in the summer, Case Odenthal, they have in fact arrived Simone verdi e Luca mazzitelli, not exactly two supporting actors. The first, a playmaker born in 1992 who has already left his mark on the area in Carpi of series A, to Como this year he hasn't found space, but he remains someone who in his career has played, between A and B, 372 games and scored 57 goals, and he has already won B, at Empoli 10 years ago and, precisely, at Como. The second is a 'returning horse', a midfield all-rounder born in 1995 who Sassuolo has already played between 2016 and 2018 (48 'tokens', 5 of which in Europa League) and has already made important marks in the Serie B championships by winning them at Monza, in 2021/22, then to Frosinone, the following season, and let's not even say who was on the Ciociari bench at the time. Is that all? No: late in the evening here is also Kevin bonifazi, central defender born in 1996 Lecce on the fringes of the Giallorossi project but highly spendable at the upcoming Serie B level, as Weather in Mazzitelli e Verdi, on loan. The arrivals, which will bring experience and more, significantly strengthen the squad and, given their age and curriculum, are an 'insurance' for some 'medical' situations (Thorstvedt above all, Lovato e Romagna to follow) today the subject of verification, while the exits - almost all on loan - presuppose how elsewhere, players who have been little used up to now can find what they want Fabio Grosso he called it 'the space they deserve.'

Those were the assumptions that underlay the transfers of Kumi e Caligara, just over 500 minutes on the pitch, as of Miranda, who had played just 45 minutes in Coppa Italia. And there was that assumption, also behind the transfer – loan with right of redemption – of D'Andrea al Brescia as behind that of Antist, sold with the same formula to Nuremberg, while the departure of Russian, which goes to Cesena on dry loan, it is read against the light of the arrival of another centre forward like Laurs Skjellerup, which was added to Muleteers e Moor.