Taurus starts strong: Vlasic towards redemption, it’s Fosu-Mensah

TURIN. We are only at 9 June, but for Torino the transfer market is already in full swing. Between burning deadlines, promises to keep and the start of the new season which is approaching – one month to go – there is no time to lose as evidenced by the great movement around the grenade club. Who, after renewing the contract in Karamoh and having immediately clarified with Juric, makes the first official signing for the 2023/24 group. He starts again by arranging the reserve goalkeeper, a small step that could become a good intuition. The new hope is called Mihai Popa, a 22-year-old Romanian who has already been identified a couple of months ago and is one of the eagerly awaited protagonists of the Under-21 European Championship which starts in a few days. He arrived for free after completing the experience with the Voluntari. He has signed for 3 years and will try to undermine the owner of the last two seasons, albeit with some flaws: Milinkovic-Savic.

In the meantime, much more decisive tests are arriving for the physiognomy of the new team and Turin is in a hurry to lay important bricks for the new home and one concerns Vlasic, for whom the terms for the right of redemption are running out (as for Miranchuk). The grenades have until the 11th minute to convince West Ham to lower the price of a player they consider out of the project in London, while in Juric’s he would be central. It is to the bitter end, the figure has dropped to 13 million, but the grenades strong in the player’s will to stay would like to save another 2 or 3.

The heart of the market is in Europe and it finds new opportunities in the Bundesliga to be included in the project. Torino risks having their wings uncovered after the departures of Aina and Lazaro and are playing on several tables. He reactivated old channels (Parisi and Mazzocchi) and opened new ones. The latest is the one with Bayer Leverkusen to ask for information on Timothy Fosu-Mensah, the Dutch right winger born in 1998. He was launched in the Premier League at the age of 18 by Van Gaal in Manchester United, but the continuation of his career was not as successful . After the experiences with Crystal Palace and Fulham, he chooses Germany to relaunch, but in two years he plays 936′. The ductility of a profile that can also play as a halfback and defender, combined with physical strength (he is 1.85 meters tall), can come in handy for Juric. He still has a year on his contract and costs 3 million. Turin likes it. —