Zapata, knee injury and season over: Torino are thinking of Balotelli

Drama Zapata. The instrumental tests that the Granata striker underwent today at lunchtime issued the worst possible sentence, regarding the left knee damaged on Saturday evening at San Siro against Inter. The Colombian striker suffered a tear of the anterior cruciate ligament, the medial meniscus and the lateral meniscus. Translated, Zapata’s championship is already over and there are big problems for Toro.

Torino’s message

In these hours the Granata environment is traumatized and the first thought goes to Duvan, who even off the pitch has always been appreciated for his exemplary behaviour. “The entire Torino Football Club affectionately embraces Duvan with the hope of seeing him as a protagonist on the pitch again as soon as possible in the Granata shirt” is the affectionate message that the Granata club dedicates to its captain.

Among the free agents is Balotelli

In the meantime, however, we are thinking about how to take action to fill the chasm that has just opened. In these hours the market for freed players is already being analysed, given that Paolo Vanoli he has never hidden that he wants to have four strikers in his squad and the loss of Zapata will mean the need to find a replacement. At the moment, in fact, there are only one available Adams, Sanabria and Karamohgiven that the young Njie was also injured in recent days (adductor injury). It’s a shame, however, that the market is closed until January and therefore, for the moment, all that remains is to sift through the list of released playersat the top of which appears the usual name of Mario Balotelli, thirty-four years old in August and a career full of “follies” and wasted opportunities.

Simeone likes January

Alternatives? The Nigerian already at Udinese Isaac Success and the former blue Mattia DestroUruguayan Maxi Gomez and French Ben Yedderup to the naturalized Cameroonian German Choupo-Moting who, however, is already thirty-six years old. Names, it goes without saying, which do not fire the imagination of the fans and which – for different reasons – could hardly be useful to Turin by return post. This is why the Granata club could focus decisively on the January repair market to find a valuable alternative who could be useful to the cause from the beginning of 2025. In the front row, in this sense, there would be the Neapolitan Simeonealready discussed several times in recent market sessions. The first alternatives to the Argentinian from Napoli could come from Milan and are the Inter player Correa and the red and black Jovic.