Win over Cremonese was only made possible after a late injury led to match-winner’s inclusion as a substitute
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he man who breathed life into Fiorentina’s survival bid was not meant to be playing at all. Moise Kean returned to training on Saturday after almost a week away attending to a private family matter. The club’s manager, Paolo Vanoli, did not intend to name him in the matchday squad to face Cremonese one day later, but had his hand forced by a late injury to Edin Dzeko.
“I have to tell the truth because that’s how I am – I’m a sincere person,” said Vanoli on Sunday. “When [Kean] came back I told him ‘Moise, out of respect for the group, I’m not even going to put you on the bench’.”
Kean’s departure had ruffled feathers in Florence, at a time when his team were bottom of the Serie A table. The rest of the squad was being kept together in a winter training camp. Furio Valcareggi, a football agent and the son of the former Fiorentina player and manager Ferruccio Valcareggi, told a local radio station that the club ought to cut ties with Kean and whoever gave him permission to leave in the first place.
