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Serie A Weekly Transfer Market Recap

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The transfer market moves along pretty slowly, waiting for the completion of some massive deals and especially for the final week. Some minor but relevant moves still went down in the past few days. Serie A teams are making it a habit of securing transfers for next season and Fiorentina pulled off an intriguing one: the central midfielder Hamed Traorè, who showed great promise and is just 18-year-old. He will finish the year at Empoli and was acquired for €12M.

With the same formula and for around €4M, Cagliari purchased the defensive prospect Sebastian Walukiewicz from Pogon Szczecin, while Sampdoria, for much cheaper, completed the signing of centre-back of Ernesto Mulè from Trapani. Continue reading →

Scuffet Moves To Turkey To Revitalize Career

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Once dubbed Gianluigi Buffon’s heir after breaking onto the scene as an unknown 17-year-old in 2014, Simone Scuffet now finds himself joining Turkish side Kasimpasa on loan until the end of the season. After a relatively rough start to the year as Udinese’s number one, the young goalkeeper was usurped by new arrival Juan Musso for the starting position, and has since been reduced to a bench role. In fact, Scuffet hasn’t featured for the Zebrette since a 3-0 loss to Napoli at the end of October.

With playing time hard to come by, Scuffet decided a change of scenery was needed and is now closing in on a loan move to regain some much needed match fitness and more importantly, confidence. While the keeper has demonstrated glimpses of his promise over the course of the last few seasons, continuity has been hard to come by thus far, and he will need to find consistency in Turkey if he is to deliver on the hype.

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Serie A Club of the Round – Juventus

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Three of the top Serie A teams, Juventus, Napoli and Roma, came away with two-nothing wins in the last round. The Giallorossi were pretty lucky to not concede considering Empoli’s chances, Sassuolo had a couple of menacing spurts, so the most convincing club this week was the Old Lady, which simply walloped Udinese on the road.

For once, Massimiliano Allegri fielded his best available XI without much rotation, with Paulo Dybala completing the trident and Rodrigo Bentancur over Emre Can in the midfield, which was missing Sami Khedira who had a relapse of his hamstring injury. Continue reading →

Serie A Team of the Week – Round 6

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As usual, some surprising names and some familiar faces are featured in the latest team of the week.

Simone Scuffet (7 points): a dazzling performance by the youngster, who brilliantly denied three point-blank attempts by Chievo, including two headers, keeping a clean sheet that eventually allowed Udinese to come away with a win. He had s shaky start, but after that he has been fully deserving of the starting job.

Nikola Milenkovic (9 points): he scored his second goal of the season, and the second one in Fiorentina-SPAL, with a thunderous header on a corner kick where he outjumped everybody, including Alfred Gomis and his outstretched arms. Continue reading →

Best young goalkeepers in Serie A

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It has not been an easy start of the season for young goalkeepers in Serie A. There have been a couple of highpoints, but most of them are stuck on bad teams and have inevitably conceded several goals. The two best ones are relatively surprising. Lazio’s Tomas Strakosha came out of nowhere last season after an injury to Federico Marchetti, but firmly managed to beat out the veteran goalie afterwards. A very explosive player, he has capped off a terrific start with a game-winning save on a Paulo Dybala penalty in Juventus-Lazio.

Roma’s Alisson has not had the same flashy plays but, after a year as an understudy behind Wojciech Szczesny, he has been extremely reliable. He has improved his game, eliminating the small blunders of the past. It also helps that Roma has had so far one of the best defensive phases in the League: they have allowed only five goals, tied with Inter and Napoli as league’s best.

Gianluigi Donnarumma is obviously a generational talent and he is head and shoulder above the other prospects. Unfortunately, Milan’s defence has been very leaky and he has not been able to save the day. After an incredible 2016/2017, a slight regression could be justifiable, but he was not severely at fault in any of the 13 goals already conceded by the Rossoneri. He will have plenty of suitors next summer if Milan does not qualify to Champions League.

Mattia Perin has become an established name in Serie A: at 24-year-old, his acrobatic and daring style has proved to be effective. Knee injuries have slowed him down in the past, but if he had a clean year from that standpoint it could be time for him to make the jump to a bigger club. Alessio Cragno returned to Cagliari as a starter after a productive loan spell at Benevento: he has shown some flashes, but he has been a little inconsistent and has had to endure a couple of small physical ailments. The Sardinian club has also one of the worst backlines in Serie A.

Alex Meret is supposed to be the next great Italian goalkeeper, alongside Donnarumma, unfortunately he has yet to play this season because of the dreaded sports hernia. Alfred Gomis has started in his place at Spal so far and has been serviceable. Meret is owned by Udinese, like Simone Scuffet, whom Udinese gave the starting job this summer over Orestis Karnezis. However, the youngster has not been able to recapture his 2013/2014 form, when he had an impressive debut in Serie A. A few big mistakes costed him his spot, which has been given to the experienced Albano Bizarri.

There are a couple of talented goalkeepers still regularly sitting on the bench. Lukazs Skorupski was excellent last season at Empoli and he was Roma’s fall-back plan if Alisson disappointed, but that has not happened and they might be better off moving him in January. Pierluigi Gollini has played here and there at Atalanta, but Etrit Berisha has still a firm grip on the starting job.

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