Riccardo Calafiori has left for London: Bologna goodbye, it will be Arsenal
The farewell to Serie A è now imminent.
Bologna soccer market: Riccardo Calafiori to Arsenal will happen, and Saturday could prove to be the decisive day for the defender's farewell not only to the Rossoblù but to Italy and Serie A. His trip to London è has in fact begun, as documented on Instagram by an image showing him on a plane in the company of his entourage. At that point will come medical examinations and, closely, the signature on his new contract.
The agreement for his transfer to Arsenal had already been previously reached between Bologna and the Gunners, on the basis of 45 million plus 5 million in bonuses. Figures destined to make him the third highest-paid Italian in Premier League history after Sandro Tonali (who cost Newcastle 64 million in the summer of 2023, paid to AC Milan) and Jorginho (from Napoli to Chelsea in 2018, a 57 million deal).
Riccardo Calafiori, a 22-year-old defender from Rome, è was one of the great revelations of Thiago Motta’s Bologna, where he had arrived in August 2023 after a season at Basel, so much so that he was called to the national team by Luciano Spalletti for the European Championships.
Long followed by Juventus, also by virtue of Thiago Motta's arrival in bianconero, Calafiori's fate seemed clear since early July. It was Giovanni Sartori who confirmed it, already at the opening ceremony of the summer soccer market. "I don't think he'll go to Juve, he'll probably go to a different market, but I repeat that our priority's to try to keep him&#quot, said then the head of Bologna's technical area.
