If you’re a regular here at Sport Witness, you’ll be more than aware of Patrick Cutrone’s struggles since joining Wolverhampton Wanderers in July 2019.
The Italian striker was somewhat unceremoniously sent packing by AC Milan that summer, who sold the Italian in an attempt to balance the books and with little thought or care for what he felt or wanted.
It’s been disastrous for Cutrone since then, with him failing to impress at Wolves or during loan spells at Fiorentina and then Valencia this season.
Indeed, club football has been something of a misery for Cutrone over the last few years, with his only joy actually coming from international football.
It was the same this week as he was one of the stars of the show for Italy’s U21’s in their quarter-final defeat to Portugal.
Gazzetta Dello Sport cover that today under the title ‘Save Patrick Cutrone’ and how the Wolves man’s games for the youth side are over.
He ‘set the final on fire’ wearing the captain’s armband, scoring to make it 3-3 and nearly making it 4-3 before going close to making it 4-4 with a shot that will have reminded many of Roberto Baggio vs France in the 1998 World Cup, according to the newspaper.
Cutrone, it’s explained, ‘put all that desire’ into his performance and showed what he still has to offer when things are going well for him.
Emotion is a ‘fundamental’ part of his game, and that’s why he has always given his best for Italy and with Milan, ‘the love of a lifetime, the shirt of all time’. That emotion is something he’s never had at Wolves.
In fact, his move there was nothing short of a ‘betrayal’ to balance the books for Milan, and Gazzetta argue he deserved more from the club he loves.
Instead, he’s stuck at Wolves, where he will be returning from Valencia this summer, striving to get anywhere near the level of performances he’s shown for Italy.
