Market, Cristiano Giuntoli returns after flop at Juve: contacts with rival club
Cristiano Giuntoli ready to get back in the game: six months after his controversial divorce with Juventus, the bianconeri’s former manager is ready to get back in the saddle with a new project and has reportedly proposed his candidacy to Fiorentina president Rocco Commisso. Giuntoli, who was recently spotted at the San Siro and has been approached in recent months by several Premier League clubs, would like to stay in Italy and, according to reports in Il Giornale, considers the square of Florence perfect for relaunching himself. The purple club is going through a complicated period: the team is last in the standings and in the grip of several internal disagreements, and Giuntoli hopes he will be given a chance to resolve the situation.
The former Napoli manager reportedly relied on some intermediaries to deliver his candidacy to Rocco Commisso, who will assess in the coming days whether the operation is feasible. Giuntoli last June had agreed with Juventus on a consensual termination with a severance payment in his favor of about 3 million euros gross. Fiorentina, in the hunt for its first league win, instead relaunched itself in the Conference League, overcoming Dinamo Kiev: “We wanted this victory at all costs, but we have so many things to improve, because we still have ghosts” inside us, said coach Vanoli.
“I told the boys to look at what they did on the court, the sacrifice they put in that will be important especially in view of the next game which is a final, we all know how important it is”. Giuntoli’s arrival could give an immediate boost to the winter market of the Gigliati, who could intervene in some departments to reinforce the squad. Moise Kean himself would be in question, as would wingmate Gudmundsson. L’Azzurro has several suitors abroad but a sale of him in January, which would guarantee a significant sum, would be seen as a downsizing by the whole environment.
Vanoli focuses only on the next game, the salvation clash with Verona: “We have to clear our heads knowing that with Dinamo in the psychological situation we are in we wasted so much energy, and now we have to be serene, after this game I want to go together with the boys to Viola Park and tomorrow morning recover our nervous energy”.
“We have to stay with our feet on the ground, we did absolutely nothing and the championship now is the most important thing of all, this win we file it away. I think today we had to look for the’attitude and it also showed from those who came in”. Fiorentina is last in the standings on 6 points, –7 from fourth-last place.
