{"id":82373,"date":"2026-06-12T11:52:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T11:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/82373\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T11:52:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T11:52:36","slug":"empoli-is-still-monitoring-young-prospects-zurichs-cosimo-fiorini-is-the-latest-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/82373\/","title":{"rendered":"Empoli is still monitoring young prospects. Zurich&#8217;s Cosimo Fiorini is the latest option."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gt-block\">With mid-June now on the horizon, there&#8217;s not much time left until the start of the summer transfer market, which for the B series will open on July 1st and will end on September 1st at 8pm. And at home Empoli the possible entry of a a member (minority or majority, depending on the offer and the industrial and sporting plan that will be put on the table), which could improve the club&#8217;s financial future. Depending on how the negotiations go (though we&#8217;re not yet at that stage, by president Fabrizio Corsi&#8217;s own admission), sporting director Stefano Stefanelli&#8217;s room for maneuver on the transfer market will also change. However, the club doesn&#8217;t want to be caught off guard, given that the situation could be resolved at the end of this month, just before the start of the transfer window, and the club is inquiring about several different options. Mostly, the talks are about promising young people with ample room for improvement, to be developed and developed as only Monteboro knows how. Among these, the latest name linked to Empoli is a midfielder from the Fiorentina school, who has been playing in Switzerland for Zurich for four seasons. It is about Cosimo FioriniBorn in 2006, Fiorini scored four goals and provided three assists in the Promotion League, the Swiss Under-21 championship, last season. His numbers were similar to the previous season, when in 26 appearances he scored five goals and provided three assists, earning him a Super League debut with the first team. A modern playmaker with good technical ability, Fiorini&#8217;s best quality is his positioning.<\/p>\n<p>The arrival or otherwise of a partner will also significantly impact potential departures, because without fresh capital, it will be difficult to resist making some sacrifices. The most popular names remain central defender Gabriele Guarino, with Torino and Palermo reportedly joining the list of admirers (Bologna, Cagliari, and Turkish side Besiktas), striker Stiven Shpendi, and young striker Bohdan Popov. The Albanian striker is reportedly being interested by Frosinone, fresh from promotion to Serie A, and by Palermo, who are ready to do anything to avoid another failed return to the Italian top flight. The talented Ukrainian, on the other hand, is said to be on the radar of Cagliari and Udinese, the Friulian club having always been very attentive to these types of prospects, especially foreign ones. Lorenzo Ignacchiti has also reportedly been added to the list, having been snapped up by Nesta&#8217;s ambitious Avellino. Of course, there&#8217;s no talk of offers or actual negotiations yet, but it&#8217;s clear that as July approaches and the start of the new season&#8217;s training camp, many rumors will inevitably have to turn into transfer targets or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With mid-June now on the horizon, there&#8217;s not much time left until the start of the summer transfer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[42388,42385,42389,42390,832,42386,28834,42387,51],"class_list":["post-82373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zurich","tag-cosimo","tag-empoli","tag-fiorini","tag-idea","tag-latest","tag-monitor","tag-profiles","tag-young-people","tag-zurich"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116736999006307926","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}