Genoa have closed the Vitinha deal according to transfer expert Gianluca Di Marzio, the attacker will move on loan to Grifone from Olympique Marseille and will be in Genoa tomorrow. The figures of the deal were also revealed, the rossoblu club has in its hands the right to buy the Portuguese player for 25 million euros and at the same time also obtained a three million discount on the redemption of Malinosvky who will be permanently rossoblu for 7 million euros, not for the ten decided in the summer.
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Who is Vitinha, Genoa’s new striker
Vitinha is one of the most interesting market hits of the entire January session in Italy. In a negotiation window without big bangs, Genoa has made one explode in no small measure given that the Portuguese arrives in Serie A after exactly a year ago he had been paid 32 million euros by Marseille to Braga, where his career it took off. In the Portuguese team, Vitinha already stood out in the B team where at just 20 years old he scored 13 goals in 15 games, a score which earned him immediate passage to the first team with two seasons among the “grown-ups” with a total of 28 goals in the championship and Europa League.
However, his adventure in France did not provide the right basis for the definitive take-off, Vitinha plays a lot but scores little, according to a statistic published just a few hours ago in the French newspapers, he is even OM’s least dangerous attacker in the last 12 years . So something didn’t work, as demonstrated by only 3 goals in 18 Ligue 1 games this season, but no one is arguing about his talent. Vitinha, at just 23 years old, just needs to regain confidence and to do so he chose Genoa who beat the competition of Bologna to bring him to Italy, who were already very interested in the Portuguese striker in recent days to make him vice Zirkzee.
A mobile center forward with good technical qualities, Genoa’s new signing has also played a few meters further back in his career to link the game between the offensive reference and the midfield. In short, a flexible deputy Retegui who could also play together with the Italian Argentine and Gudmundsson in case of need. In the last few hours, Fiorentina has made an attack on the Icelandic player, reportedly offering 20 million euros, not much for the Grifone.