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OFFICIAL: Lucas Beltrán sold to River Plate
It’s hardly a surprise but now it’s official. Fiorentina announced this morning that Lucas Beltrán has been loaned to River Plate for a €500,000 fee with an obligatory purchase option around €6.5 million, according to Diario Olé. Cesar Luis Merlo adds that the Viola will get 50% of his next move. Beltrán has signed a […]
OFFICIAL: Fiorentina signs Viery
It’s not much of a surprise following a fortnight’s worth of reporting but Viery’s transfer from Grêmio to Fiorentina is official. The Brazilian has passed his medical tests and signed a contract (I can’t find anyone reporting the salary yet) running through 2031 with the Imortal Tricolor receiving a €15 million fee for the 21-year-old […]
UEFA hits Fiorentina with big fine for overspending
Oh ho ho, dear reader, did you think firing Daniele Pradè meant that his specter was exorcised from the Viola Park? No, a haunting that lasts as long as this one did leaves residual effects and UEFA has informed us of the latest: a €6 million fine for spending too much on salary compared to […]
Here’s Fiorentina’s summer schedule [updated]
While it may feel as if the endless 2025-2026 season concluded yesterday, I regret to inform you that Fiorentina will be back in our lives sooner than we feared. That’s right, thee preseason calendar has started to take shape ahead of the centenary season. We’ll get our first glimpses of Fabio Grosso and his new […]
Here’s Fiorentina’s summer schedule
While it may feel as if the endless 2025-2026 season concluded yesterday, I regret to inform you that Fiorentina will be back in our lives sooner than we feared. That’s right, thee preseason calendar has started to take shape ahead of the centenary season. We’ll get our first glimpses of Fabio Grosso and his new […]
Report: Fiorentina has a deal in place for Viery
We’re under a week from the transfer window officially opening but smart teams are already lining up their moves and so is Fiorentina. We’ve heard rumblings over the past week or two that Fabio Paratici has found a new defender and various outlets are confirming that it’s Grêmio’s Viery. The Viola will shell out €15 […]
How Fiorentina can get the best out of Moise Kean
There are numerous reasons for Fiorentina’s collapse from European contender to Serie A’s most disappointing club but Moise Kean is near the top of the list. In his debut Viola campaign, he became Italy’s scariest striker. His sophomore effort, however, saw him underperform his xG by the largest margin in the league. A calf/ankle issue […]
Report: Luca Koleosho might actually be a thing
We’re a week away from the transfer window actually opening, which heralds the return of loanees to their parent clubs. In Fiorentina’s case, that means declining the purchase options for Manor Solomon and Jack Harrison (unless Fabio Paratici abruptly changes course). With Albert Guðmundsson edging toward the exit as well and Fabiano Parisi out until […]
Everybody and nobody is to blame for de Gea’s uncertain future
Fabio Paratici arrived with the stated purpose of trimming the roster. It makes sense for a team that’s dropped from European contender to relegation avoider. Without that 3rd competition, there aren’t enough minutes in the upcoming season for the whole squad to play. There also won’t be enough money to pay that whole squad. We […]
Here’s your all-Tuscan XI
Empoli missed the Serie B playoff. Those salt-hoarders from Pisa dissolved as if soaked in water and will join them in the second tier. That means Fiorentina will be the only Tuscan team in Serie A for the first time since 2020-2021. I’ll miss the intensity those games against the noisy neighbors offer but I […]
5 Sassuolo players Grosso could target for Fiorentina
One of the silliest parts about signing a new manager is trying to figure out which of their former players they’ll bring to the club. It’s important, the thinking goes, to have someone in the squad who knows the mister, how he’ll operate, and effectively serve as a liaison with the squad. Never mind that […]
2025-2026 loanee reports
It was a mixed bag for the guys plying their trade away from the friendly confines of the RBCVPetc this year. Some of them were fortunate to get away from Fiorentina, thus avoiding the sea of troubles that broke against the club all year; others were part of the problem and were shipped off to […]
Mercato Madness: Summer 2026
For the first time since Rocco Commisso bought Fiorentina in 2019, we’re heading into a season without Daniele Pradè helming the recruitment as sporting director. This will be Fabio Paratici’s first* mercato with the Viola and whoo boy does he have some work to do. Despite Paolo Vanoli heroically hauling the team back from the […]
2025-2026 in review: The strikers
Time to wrap up this remarkably depressing season overview with the most depressing positional group. At the start of the season, one might have thought that having Italy’s best striker, a €25 million center forward, and a genuine legend of the game would be more than enough for a functional attack. Nothing could’ve been further […]
Fiorentina season review: 2025-2026
Remember when Stefano Pioli was fuming that Max Allegri excluded the Viola from his preseason list of Champions League hopefuls? Feels like it happened the season after Beppe Iachini left town for good. What I’m saying is that this year was hellishly long for Fiorentina fans. I can’t imagine why you’d want to relive any […]
2025-2026 in review: The wingers
Given the formational shift Paolo Vanoli deployed halfway through the season, there’s an argument to be made that including a position group called “wingers” in this series misses the point. That’s fair enough but I’m sticking with it anyways and even tossing poor old Christan Kouamé into the mix since he was used as a […]
OFFICIAL: Fabio Grosso is Fiorentina’s new head coach
It’s been a while since the news leaked but now it’s official (pending the unofficial 23-day waiting period customary for World Cup winners): Fiorentina has hired Fabio Grosso as its new head coach. He’s signed a 2-year contract that will pay him €1.2 million a year with a club option for a third Grosso’s name […]
2025-2026 in review: The midfielders
Having hit the goalkeepers, centerbacks, and fullbacks, we progress to the midfielders (something Fiorentina rarely did this year). There was quite a bit of churn in the engine room so buckle in for a long and bumpy ride. To shorten it a touch, I’m skipping Amir Richardson (he’ll be on the loanee report) and Abdelhamid […]
OFFICIAL: Vanoli leaves Fiorentina
To nobody’s surprise, Fiorentina announced a few hours ago that the club has parted ways with Paolo Vanoli and his coaching staff, declining to pick up its option to keep him around for another year. The mister doesn’t have another job lined up as far as I know so he’ll have to sit and wait […]
Viola Station 100: Centennial podcast ahead of the centennial season
Hey, look at us. Who would’ve thought? Not me. We’ve hit the big 100! 100 episodes of laughter, sadness, and McMike’s esoteric 80’s references. There have been highs, there have been lows, but most of all there has been Fiorentina. In this special centennial episode we answer your questions and then we ask the questions […]
2025-2026 in review: The fullbacks
Dodô Developed a serious case of the yips early on and made a series of increasingly wacky mistakes but eventually steadied himself. Like everyone else on the team, he was worse this year than last year and, as one of the most important players, that’s partly on him. I’d still give more of the blame […]
2025-2026 in review: The centerbacks
After starting out with the goalkeepers, we’re moving forward to the centerbacks. Spoiler alert: it’s bad! Everything’s bad! Marin Pongračić The much-maligned defender started out this season much as he started out the last one. He switched off, made horrible passes, was curiously ineffective in the air, fouled needlessly, and was generally a mess. I […]
3 players from each relegated team that could help Fiorentina
To my astonishment as much as anyone’s, Fiorentina avoided the drop and, as a reward, gets to pick over the carcasses of the relegated teams—Cremonese, Hellas Verona, and Pisa—like everyone else. There’s always some talent in these generally talent-poor teams and it’s often available at a bargain but let’s not kid ourselves: if these rosters […]
2025-2026 in review: The Goalkeepers
To start off our positional reviews for this accursed season, it makes sense to go first to the men between the sticks. No further introductions. Let’s dive in. David de Gea The reigning Serie A Goalkeeper of the Year came into the season with a ton of goodwill but, like literally everyone else, didn’t do […]
Guessing how Paratici will evaluate the underachievers
Fiorentina was ass this year. I know it. You know it. The world knows it. Things started going ass in preseason and didn’t really stop. Paolo Vanoli did the unglamorous work of wrenching the club back to safety but even that process was wrought with assness. Fabio Paratici is thus left with the unenviable task […]
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