{"id":4602,"date":"2026-06-24T00:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T00:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/?p=4602"},"modified":"2026-06-24T00:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T00:50:12","slug":"man-city-and-arsenal-men-unlikely-to-return-to-serie-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/?p=4602","title":{"rendered":"Man City and Arsenal Men Unlikely to Return to Serie A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t<!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p>Two former Serie A stars, Tijjani Reijnders and Riccardo Calafiori, could switch teams during the summer, but they are long-shot targets for the Italian clubs, primarily because of their giant evaluations.<\/p>\n<p>According to Matteo Moretto (via <em>Calciomercato<\/em>), Manchester City will make the Dutchman available despite spending \u20ac55M, plus \u20ac15M potential bonuses, to snap him up from Milan last year. New coach Enzo Maresca favors more physical options in the midfield. He had an okay but not formidable first campaign in England. He registered 7 goals and 8 assists in 47 appearances, losing playing time in the final months.<\/p>\n<p>Reijnders has been attached to Juventus, which are looking for some creativity, but Atletico Madrid are a lot closer to him, and his price tag is significant, which is also the case for Calafiori, who is on Real Madrid\u2019s radar, <em>Tuttomercatoweb<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal aren\u2019t inclined to sell him. Only an offer close to \u20ac100M could maybe persuade them to change their mind. <em>Los Merengues<\/em> have already signed Ibrahima Konat\u00e9 and Marc Cucurella in the back. They are now focusing on Ruben Dias and Alessandro Bastoni. The 24-year-old has piled up 4 goals and 5 assists in 65 matches since heading to London.<\/p>\n<h3>Our Take on Reijnders and Calafiori<\/h3>\n<p>If Juventus were in their economic prime, they\u2019d go out and acquire both without batting an eye, but those days are gone. The latter will likely stay where he is or move to another powerhouse in a massive deal. The former could perhaps be in play even for Serie A sides late if Manchester City didn\u2019t find a suitable solution, grew desperate to make room and were open to letting him go for favorable conditions.<\/p>\n<table class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color: #ebf5ff;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 60px; border: 0px;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 0px; text-align: center;\"><strong>Follow us on <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Google News<\/span> for more updates on Serie A and Italian football<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cultofcalcio.com\/man-city-and-arsenal-men-unlikely-to-return-to-serie-a\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two former Serie A stars, Tijjani Reijnders and Riccardo Calafiori, could switch teams during the summer, but they are long-shot targets for the Italian clubs, primarily because of their giant evaluations. According to Matteo Moretto (via Calciomercato), Manchester City will make the Dutchman available despite spending \u20ac55M, plus \u20ac15M potential bonuses, to snap him up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-notizie-di-calciomercato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}