Serie A market, Rodrigo Becao ready to return: four-way race for the Brazilian
Rodrigo Becao could return to Serie A pitches in January. Having ended up on the fringes of the technical project at Fenerbahce, a club he joined in 2023 after four seasons at Udinese, the Brazilian defender is a temptation for four teams currently on the right side of the standings: Davide Nicola’s Cremonese, Marco Baroni’s Torino, Paolo Zanetti’s Hellas Verona and Paolo Vanoli-led Fiorentina, last in the standings after 15 league days. Becao is reportedly pushing to return to Italy as soon as possible to end a Turkish interlude that fell short of his expectations.
Pushing hard for Becao is above all Fiorentina, the tournament’s tail end and in need of immediate intervention in defense, given the 26 goals conceded in the league. Vanoli’s team has cashed in too much, suffers against all opponents and lacks a leader in the back department: the profile of Becao, for characteristics and experience, is the one that the lily club’s management would have identified to give stability to a department in obvious difficulty. The idea is that of a targeted investment that could convince the Brazilian to fight for a comeback in the standings from the last position in the second half of the championship.
It is a different situation for Torino, which is not having a brilliant season (it has conceded the same number of goals as Fiorentina, picking up 17 points in fifteen games) and needs to expand rotations in a defensive department in which, among other things, Adrien Tameze, a holding midfielder but deployed at the back in the 3-5-2, has been readjusted more than once. Becao is accustomed to playing in the in the three-man defense and is a level goalscorer: elements, these, that make him the ideal candidate from the Garnet’s point of view. The idea would be to include him immediately as a starter, going to close a hitherto emergency situation.
Hellas Verona, on the other hand, is looking for experience to flank a group renewed in the summer, which is paying the impact with a complicated season. Zanetti has called for reinforcements with personality, and Becao would represent an immediate upgrade, especially in a department that has alternated good performances with sudden blackouts. Finally, there’s Cremonese, which has found compactness under Davide Nicola but needs a central midfielder to face the second half of the season with more confidence. The Brazilian would bring physicality, leadership and knowledge of the league, elements that could prove decisive in the race to stay in the top division.
Becao’s future, then, seems destined to intertwine again with Serie A. There is no shortage of suitors and the player has already made it known that he wants to return to Italy: it remains to be seen who, among the four, will be able to move with greater conviction in the coming weeks.
The player’s future, then, will be in the hands of the Serie A.
The class of 1997 defender played in Italy from 2019 to 2023, collecting with the Udinese jersey 130 total appearances between league and Coppa Italia, also scoring 6 times. His last Italian goal dates back to March 11, 2023, at 54′ of Empoli-Udinese, which ended 1-0 for the bianconeri.
