Mino Raiola is a busy man these days, or that’s the slant the Italian media are trying to push these days, at least.
First needing to find a landing spot for Zlatan Ibrahimovic after the Swede bid farewell to LA Galaxy and the MLS, the agent is apparently also working on the future of one of his youngest protégés, Moise Kean.
You know the gist of the story by now, so we won’t repeat it, but there is some interest in Italy about bringing the forward back to Serie A from Everton just six months after his €30m or so transfer to Goodison Park.
Eleven appearances and no goals haven’t helped his case, but the player himself has made it clear he needs time to adapt to a new league.
Despite various claims that Kean would wants to return to Italy, that’s not the angle Corriere dello Sport are pushing, explaining the player ‘wants to explode (do well) in Liverpool’ and while his adaptation hasn’t been ‘perfect’, the season is ‘long’, and so there’s still plenty of time for the forward to break through.
They even doubt if, with all the competition outside of the striker role (which currently is and will remain Edin Džeko’s), Kean would get a starting spot at Roma, where he has been mostly sent by the Italian press.
They aren’t the only club interested, as Bologna also wanted Kean during the last January window, and the club will wait, much like Paulo Fonseca’s, to see what happens.
As for Everton in all this, it’s repeated they ‘don’t have the intention to open’ talks, but are rather intent on ‘defending their investment’ in the upcoming transfer window.
It’s looking more and more complicated for Italian sides, and unless something drastically changes for Kean at Goodison Park in the next month and a half, he should stay where he is in January.
