If there is a club that has been at the center of all major transactions in Italy, it is Fiorentina. With the departure of Vincenzo Italiano and the arrival of Raffaele Palladino, the Fiorentina started a major transition last summer with one of the new young dynamic coaches with the growing side in Italian football. The summer transfer window was already in the direction of a rejuvenation with the signatures of Amir Richardson, Yacine Adli, MatĂas Moreno, Edoardo Bove and Albert Gudmundsson. A beautiful group of young players determined to explode in Tuscany. Currently classified in 5th position, the Viola wanted to continue to attract nuggets but this time Italian. In addition to the transfers of Nicolò Zaniolo (25) and Michael Folorunsho (27), the residents of Artemio crossed attracted several elements which could make the heyday of the national selection in the coming months.
Asked about this before the victory against Inter Milan (3-0) in the context of the late match following the cardiac discomfort of Eduardo Bove on December 1, Raffaele Palladino wanted to congratulate his direction for this breathtaking transfer window: “”There were eight outings and five tickets. There has always been harmony with the club. It was done to create an ever stronger fiorentina. The work was enormous. The leaders worked 24 hours a day for the property of the club. I am very satisfied. Important players have arrived that will give added value to the workforce that was already up to par. We will immediately have to integrate the boys into our team, which is compact. Many of them already know each other. This will be done naturally. Technical integration is my work. We have recruited very good players who will give us a big helping hand. You will have to be chameleon».
An incredible chance for Italian football
Among the XXL recruits of the Viola, the young environment Nicolò Fagioli (23) finally chose Tuscany to continue its development, therefore rejecting the advances of Roberto de Zerbi to bring it to the Olympique de Marseille: “He's a strong player, I always liked him. It has great versatility and great dynamism. He can play anyway and anywhere in the midfield. Fiorentina has made an excellent recruitment. In recent months, we have had some shortages in this role, and he will give us a big helping hand. He really wanted to come to Florence“Said Palladino, before continuing on Cher Ndour (20 years old), another new winter recruit that has turned their backs on many clubs, to settle down in Florence:”I see it as an attacker or an attacking midfielder. He is a box-to-box player, he brings us a characteristic that we did not have in the team. I am very happy with its acquisition». The Viola has one of the most modern and efficient training centers in Italy. The new Casa Viola covers an area of ​​around 31 hectares and is one of the largest sports centers in Europe. It houses all the offices of the club, the training grounds of the first male and female team and those of the youth teams. This recruitment policy, to which Andrea Colpani (25) and Moise Kean (24) who arrived last summer must be added last summer, is doing a lot of good in Italian football. Without forgetting the presence of Pietro Comuzzo (19 years old), trained in La Fiorentina.
A disturbing statistic had been revealed in the columns of The Stampa In 2024: the playing time of the Italian U-21 in Serie A represented that 11% on the overall time of the championship. Heresy when you know that Italy is carbure in youth competitions (U20 World Cup final in 2023, quarter-final at the U21 Euro in 2021, U19 European Champion in 2023 and semi-final to the U19 Euro in 2024). The recruitment of Fiorentina is also part of the logic of Luciano Spalletti. If in Euro 2024, the Azzurri already constituted the youngest national selection of the competition with an average of 26.5 years, this average age has dropped again and went down to 24.3 years for the rally of november. A rejuvenation project assumed by Spalletti since the end of the euro since he had already called Samuele Ricci, Caleb Okoli or Daniel Maldini during the previous Trier. : “Great, we have a lot of players who aspire to the selection. Fiorentina wants to grow, and that's the best way. I thanked everyone for the transfer window that was made. Yesterday, the three leaders and the president received my compliments. I understood how much they care about Fiorentina and how much they want to wear it at the top. Now it's up to me to give everything to lead the fiorentina to its goals. I don't like to place a team, you have to work. We have to improve the points of the first half of the season, we have taken a lot but we want to take even more». The calcio can say thank you to the Florentine management.
