Mercato madness: Summer 2025 - Viola Nation

Jun 25, 2025

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Another wretched transfer window is upon us.

After a surprising 6th place finish in 2024-2025, Fiorentina managed to undo all its positive momentum with the implosive news of Raffaele Palladino’s resignation. That’s left sporting director Daniele Pradè and company scrambling to find a new manager and fill out a roster for an entirely different style.

Against that backdrop, the Viola enter a summer transfer window that offers equal parts of hope and fear. The skeleton of an excellent squad is already in place, giving us glimpses of optimism for 2025-2026, but the terror of losing certain key contributors is enough to potentially torpedo everything.

As usual, we’ll follow all the stories here, providing the usual commentary, panic, and general flailing that you’ve come to expect from us.

Is this good? This seems good.

The Icelandic forward has climbed into a box with a cat and shows no signs of emerging.

The Viola have gone bargain-hunting on the trapdoor before, albeit with mixed success, and could well do so again.

The Empoli man is a rising star and could play a big role in a wide-open Viola midfield.

The veteran midfielder will return to Lazio.

Thirty-nine (39) years old.

Organizational instability doesn’t just stress us out as fans. It costs a lot of money, too.

Another major situation slips into the background as the Viola try to juggle their various ongoing catastrophes.

The veteran goalkeeper will stay with the Viola for 3 more years, although at this rate, there might not be a Viola in 3 more years.

The Viola brass gave us some actionable information without offering anything too wild, which is a refreshing change from seasons past.

El Vikingo may have to recross the Atlantic to get back to his pillaging best.

Zinzerone is the biggest academy triumph in quite some time, so keeping him in Florence is a major triumph.

Missing out on Europe means that the Viola finances have taken a hit, a hit that will prevent several guys on the roster from sticking around.