{"id":219135,"date":"2025-06-27T17:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T17:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/219135\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T17:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T17:16:10","slug":"watford-lead-the-race-for-lazio-full-back-romano-floriani-mussolini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/219135\/","title":{"rendered":"Watford Lead the Race for Lazio Full-Back Romano Floriani Mussolini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lazio youth product Romano Floriani Mussolini has a host of suitors in Italy and abroad, but Watford are reportedly his staunchest admirers.<\/p>\n<p>The Background<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old impressed this season at Juve Stabia who decided to trigger their option to sign him on a permanent basis, but<a href=\"https:\/\/thelaziali.com\/2025\/06\/25\/official-lazio-option-buy-romano-floriani-mussolini\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Lazio responded by activating their buy-back clause<\/a>, thus re-signing the player for circa \u20ac400,000. Nevertheless, he might not dwell in Formello for too long.<\/p>\n<p>Romano Floriani Mussolini Facing Uncertain Future<\/p>\n<p>According to Il Corriere dello Sport (via<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lalaziosiamonoi.it\/rassegna-stampa\/calciomercato-lazio-richieste-dall-inghilterra-per-floriani-mussolini-le-ultime-227340\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> La Lazio Siamo Noi<\/a>), the Aquile are considering offloading the promising right-back. The Roman newspaper believes that finding a buyer won\u2019t be too difficult, as he\u2019s already tracked by four or five <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legaseriea.it\/it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Serie A<\/a> clubs, in addition to a long queue of Serie B sides.<\/p>\n<p>Watford Keeping Close Tabs on Mussolini<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the source reveals interest from several English sides, and chief among them is Watford, a club owned by the Puzzo family, and thus tends to sign players from Italy. The report adds that Mussolini\u2019s agents, Federico Pastorello and Maurizio Tonicchi, held a meeting with Lazio sporting director, Angelo Fabiani, on Thursday to discuss the player\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p>Two Potential Formulas<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that the club would be open to selling the full-back if they were to receive offers in the region of \u20ac10 million, in addition to a significant sell-on fee. Another option would be a new loan spell with an option and a counter-option, similar to the arrangement made with Juve Stabia last summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lazio youth product Romano Floriani Mussolini has a host of suitors in Italy and abroad, but Watford are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-219135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114756464479279021","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}