Slot on Chiesa:
"...he goes a bit up and down, so sometimes he's there with us, train a few days and then he goes out for an injury again..."
This sounds like some sort of a more permanent problem/issue with Chiesa. Hamstring perhaps. Similar to Owen. And he had the ACL operation.
It is curious that the type of injury Chiesa has remains unspoken and unexplained. Juventus has probably kept hidden Chiesa's injury problems. And even went out of its way to mask them to the best of their ability. Clubs keep such things hidden regularly when there is some sort of a big, fundamental, ongoing, hardly solvable, etc. problem to retain and protect the players' market value. But not all clubs go as far as to employ extremely dirty tactics in that regard too. And that is also the reason why Liverpool appears inclined to do the same thing now. Chiesa was signed onto a 4 year, £120,000 a week contract. Looks like Juventus has probably done a number on the LFC with Chiesa.
I consider the FSG to be very shrewd owners and if that above is indeed the case then that would be a big surprise to me. My expectations were that the FSG would not be tricked quite just like that. The best-case scenario right now is that LFC are and were at all times aware of Chiesa's injury woes and are confident that they can address them.
One should know that Italian football league and football operations, just like Italian sports operations in general, often employ very, very dirty tactics and maneuvers that are unfamiliar and very unexpected to non-Italians.
My comparison of Chiesa to a Ferrari one can fill up with just 10 litres of gas might very well have been too optimistic. But I mean, it is surely still something to hope for given the contract he has signed. But that very well can be an extremely rose-tainted metaphor.
One should also note here that Chiesa might have been exposed to forbidden/illegal doping substances. Stuff like that is more common in Italy as was recently the case with the top Italian tennis player Jannick Sinner. Such stuff could have further abused Chiesa's body by regularly over-forcing it while not fully recovered. I'm afraid that would be the very worst-case scenario that, unfortunately, one is forced to give significant likelihood.
In all frankness, I currently feel that I was very undeservedly over-excited about Liverpool signing Chiesa. I do still hope LFC can find a way to make things work out with him.
