Tonali goes to Newcastle: 75 million. Juve-Sassuolo meeting for Frattesi

TURIN. Two young Azzurri midfielders light up the transfer market: Sandro Tonali, born in 2000, 14 appearances for Mancini and now “on loan” to the Under 21 team for the European Championship, is close to the very wealthy Newcastle, while Davide Frattesi, who has just celebrated against Holland, Italy’s first goal after 6 matches, continues to shake up an auction led by Juventus and Inter which recorded the revival of the black and whites yesterday.

The most sensational move was English, indeed Arab considering that the Magpies belong to the sovereign wealth fund Public Investment Fund (Pif) whose assets are estimated at 620 billion dollars: after finding the Inter wall for Nicolò Barella, the club shifted attention to Tonali, also meeting resistance from Milan, only this time he raised up to 70 million plus 5 in bonuses, making the Rossoneri top management waver: understandable, on the other hand, considering that the white smoke would set a new record among the most profitable transfers , exceeding after 14 years the 67 million spent by Real Madrid for Kakà. The footballer would be paid a salary of 6.5 million plus 1 bonus (he currently receives 2.5) and ensured centrality in a very ambitious project: the agent Giuseppe Riso has already been in London and the top management of Newcastle have collected the « Yes”.

Riso is also the manager of Frattesi, at the center of the conversation between the Juventus director Giovanni Manna and the Sassuolo CEO Giovanni Carnevali which took place in the office of the Neroverde manager in via Manzoni, in the center of Milan. The Juventus goal is to renew interest in the midfielder, take stock of the technical counterparts appreciated (in the front row Koni De Winter, this year in Empoli), but above all to have guarantees on the feasibility of the operation: a recent dinner between Carnevali, the ds Giovanni Rossi from Emilia and the Nerazzurri managers Beppe Marotta and Dario Baccin had in fact let us imagine an overtaking by Inter, ready to insert the Under 20 Samuele Mulattieri, back from loan at Frosinone, in the deal. Riso also appeared in Carnevali’s office, who did not dribble the questions but took refuge in diplomacy: «We talked a bit to understand how to move things forward. Is there a team ahead? They are all more or less on the same level. We see”. There are those who assure that with Tonali’s treasure, Milan itself is preparing a great relaunch. Even more laconic (“There is nothing”) the very active Manna – the redemption of Arkadiusz Milik has just been made official: 6.3 million plus 1.1 bonus to Marseille – who immediately plunged into another summit , this time with Empoli, for another Under 21, the full-back born in 2000 Fabiano Parisi: as part of the negotiation Paolo Zanetti will be able to have the midfielder Filippo Ranocchia, in his last season at Monza. Another Tuscan jewel, goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario, is close to Tottenham. —