Kean to Como: the headline mover
Moise Kean is increasingly close to joining Como in a deal that could reach around £35m, per Sky Sports Italy. It is a remarkable sentence for anyone who tracked the striker’s wanderings through Everton, Juventus, and Fiorentina, but the football logic is sound.
Como, under their ambitious ownership, have spent two windows assembling one of the most interesting projects in Serie A, and Kean arrives as a proven league scorer at peak age. The fee sits above his skouted.ai valuation band of €22.5M to €27.5M, a premium Como are paying for certainty of output in a system that will be built around him.
Guiu to Napoli: Chelsea clear the runway
Chelsea are in talks to sell Spanish striker Marc Guiu, 20, to Napoli, and the deal is progressing. From a squad-building perspective this is clean business: Napoli get a physical young striker with room to grow, Chelsea free up space and recoup fee value on an academy graduate.
Palacios to Ipswich: the curveball
Exequiel Palacios, 27, is close to completing a £23.5m move from Bayer Leverkusen to Ipswich Town. A World Cup-winning Argentine midfielder dropping into the Premier League’s promoted ranks is the kind of signing that defines a season. If Ipswich get the Leverkusen version of Palacios, the press-resistant, tactically intelligent version that anchored a Bundesliga title run, this becomes one of the bargains of the window.
Also on the board
- Lucas Perri to Torino: Leeds have granted the Brazilian goalkeeper permission to finalize a loan with option to buy.
- Robinio Vaz to Hull City: the 19-year-old French striker from AS Roma is close to an agreement with the Tigers.
- Nick Woltemade watch: Napoli are considering a loan move for the Newcastle and Germany striker, 24, which would complete their striker overhaul alongside Guiu.
AI Verdict: Hold on Kean, Watch the rest
Kean at £35m is full price for a 26-year-old with one elite season in the last three; the risk is priced in for the buyer. Palacios at £23.5m is the value play of the day: a midfielder whose OVR 81-adjacent prime profile typically commands €40m+ in this market. Ipswich may have just executed the smartest piece of business of deadline week.
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