Signed by Southampton last summer from Torino for just under £7m, Lyanco could be heading back to Italy in the coming months.
That’s according to Corriere dello Sport on Thursday, who explain that Bologna are interested, as their manager Sinisa Mihajlovic has ‘always continued to find a space’ for him in his thoughts ‘in recent months’.
Doing well under him during the 2019 season on loan from the Turin side, the Southampton defender gets along well with the manager, but that doesn’t mean a move is around the corner.
Corriere explain that when Bologna lost Matteo Lovato, ‘the first defender Sinisa thought of was the Brazilian’, but ‘it depends’ on what the centre-back wants.
Looking back over the last campaign at Southampton, the 25-year-old only started nine times in the Premier League under Ralph Hasenhüttl (even if he did have an injury), so it’s clear he isn’t all that important to the manager’s plans, but that also doesn’t mean the Saints want to sell.
The Italian newspaper make it clear it ‘will depend on the will of the Brazilian and on the transfer formula that the English club will be willing to do’.
Still, bringing a player who has gone to the Premier League back to Serie A ‘is always sufficiently complicated’, meaning there’s a lot of work to be done here.
