Simply 10 months on from becoming a member of Liverpool, it seems more and more as if Federico Chiesa could possibly be on the transfer once more this summer season.
The Italy worldwide rapidly turned a favorite of the Kop since his arrival at Anfield final August, however he was restricted to only a single begin in his first season within the Premier League as he struggled for game-time beneath Arne Slot.
We just lately revealed on Empire of the Kop that the 27-year-old is open to becoming a member of Serie A champions Napoli, who’re understood to have held talks over a doable transfer for the Reds’ quantity 14 as he eyes a possible return to his homeland.
Romano: Chiesa searching for an exit from Liverpool
On Monday lunchtime, Fabrizio Romano shared an replace on Chiesa, who regardless of having an affection for Liverpool is searching for to chop his ties with the membership looking for extra common game-time subsequent season.
The switch guru indicated (through CaughtOffside): “Based on my info, he needs to return to Italy. He needs to go away Liverpool, not as a result of he has any drawback – he loves the membership, he loves his teammates and all of the folks on the membership – however the issue is that Chiesa is just not taking part in regularly.
“He needs to go, he needs to play, he additionally needs to be again with the Italian nationwide staff, so taking part in recurrently for his membership can be essential. Chiesa goes, however let’s simply see which membership will be capable of attain an settlement with Liverpool. There’s some curiosity from Italy, particularly from Napoli additionally on this case.”
Laborious guilty Chiesa for desirous to play extra forward of 2026 World Cup
We are able to solely think about how tough and irritating it should’ve been for the 27-year-old over the previous few months to safe a dream transfer to Liverpool, solely to then discover himself struggling to get on the pitch.
It was a 12 months in the past yesterday that he final performed for Italy, and Chiesa may properly have one eye on subsequent summer season’s World Cup as he seeks to get again into the Azzurri squad. He missed the possibility to function on the 2022 finals in Qatar as a result of then-European champions’ shock failure to qualify.
His new nationwide staff boss Gennaro Gattuso has already made it unmistakably clear that the Reds ahead ‘should play extra’ within the coming months if he’s to be thought-about for choice, and one other season spent warming the bench at Anfield gained’t assist in that regard.
On the very least, we’d wish to see our quantity 14 that includes prominently in pre-season and hopefully making a sufficiently lasting impression on Arne Slot to be given a correct likelihood as soon as the aggressive motion begins.
Nonetheless, if it’s evident by the autumn that Chiesa nonetheless isn’t within the head coach’s ideas when the beginning XI is being chosen, a parting of the methods in 2026 would really feel more and more inevitable.
If nothing else, at the very least he’d depart as a Premier League winner and a real cult hero each time he does go.
