Sometimes all it takes is a penalty, maybe even a missed penalty, to ignite suspicions and write new market stories
Galeotto quel rigore: il Bologna e l’indizio su una cessione eccellente (LaPresse) – serieanews.com
At first it always seems very simple. There is a team that plays well, surprises everyone, gets far. There is a group that has fun, a coach that works, a city that rediscovers itself as European. But then comes the market. And the market, you know, is that moment when others — those with more money — knock on your door and say, “nice everything, but now we’ll take a piece of it.”
That is exactly where Bologna is coming. It is not a curse, it is not a punishment. It is the rule of the game. It happened last year with Zirkzee and Calafiori. It will happen again. Because that’s how it works: growing teams have to choose at some point what to become. Retain the champions and raise the bar? Or sell them well and keep working on ideas?
Bologna is a club that has always known how to move. And indeed, while everyone is talking about Dan Ndoye and-not surprisingly-somebody at Casteldebole is already looking around.
Ndoye is one of those who has really made a difference this year. Having arrived from Basel for 9 million plus bonuses, he is perhaps even worth three times that today. Napoli had tried as early as January. Then it had all been frozen with a promise to hear back in the summer. And now summer is just around the corner.
Bologna, decisa la cessione di Ndoye: si punta la “vecchia conoscenza” Eguinaldo
That it is indeed There is, however, one detail that suggests that Bologna is preparing the ground for an excellent farewell. A signal, du those that suggest that by now the die is cast and one only needs to look ahead.
Bologna, decisa la cessione di Ndoye: si punta la “vecchia conoscenza” Eguinaldo (LaPresse) – serieanews.com
That signal has a South American name, a devastating acceleration, and an episode that has remained in the eyes of those who watch matches carefully. Because perhaps not everyone remembers it, but during Bologna-Shakhtar in the Champions League, a certain Eguinaldo had sown panic on the flank.
Running, ripping, penalty won. Then Sudakov missed it, but so what. Eguinaldo had already impressed Bologna’s scouts, who moreover already had him in their notebooks. A Brazilian born in 2004, he plays for Shakhtar Donetsk and has been strongly back on the Rossoblu radar for the past few days.
Growing up in Vasco da Gama, Eguinaldo is one of those players not easily forgotten. Because he runs like few: he was clocked at 37.5 km/h in Brazil. Yes, like Mbappé.
He plays offensive outside, can be on the left or right, but the house specialty remains the breakaway. The man who sends your fullback to the bar and starts straight for goal. One to build on, sure, but also one that Bologna would know how to develop as it has been with many other talents before him.
History, perhaps, is not yet written. But the clues are beginning to line up. Because the market is like that: it doesn’t always alert you with official releases. Sometimes you can tell by a penalty. Maybe even a wrong one.
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