In the summer of 2025, when Moise Kean decided to stay at Fiorentina after the best season of his career, everyone — Fiorentina fans most of all — must have thought: fine, but this is a temporary choice. At the end of the 2025/26 season, Kean would leave for a big club, arriving as a leading figure and finally trying to establish himself as a top-level striker on the international stage. As things stand, despite a season and performances that have been anything but outstanding, both from Fiorentina and from the player, things have more or less gone as expected: Moise Kean is about to become the starting centre-forward — as well as one of the brightest players in the squad, full stop — for a very wealthy team, a Champions League club that has had an excellent transfer window. It does not matter that the team is called Como. If anything, that is precisely what makes it interesting.
Everyone can judge Kean and his entourage for the way they have behaved during these weeks of intense transfer activity, and from a certain point of view Fiorentina fans are perfectly entitled to feel, to put it mildly, somewhat irritated by what has happened. The reality of results, finances and negotiations, however, has made Como a major opportunity for the player. Kean, after all, has not had a great season — nine goals in 33 appearances in all competitions — and therefore did not have the leverage to move to an absolute top club, but he remains one of the most attractive profiles available on the Italian market. And this is precisely where Como becomes an opportunity Kean had to seize.
On a technical and tactical level, Fàbregas’ team offers — or will offer — an ideal platform for Kean’s vertical game, his ability to attack space, coordinate himself and get a shot away from almost any situation, his tendency to stretch the pitch both in depth and across its width. It is the kind of environment in which his strengths should have room to breathe. From a project perspective, as already mentioned, Como currently represents the best possible destination. There is a palpable sense of excitement around the club, and the rather remarkable confirmation of Nico Paz reinforced the sense that this is a club capable of putting together and completing almost any transfer operation. There will also be a Champions League campaign to play with very little pressure attached to it. Fàbregas and his players will have little to worry about beyond improving and making a good impression.
The paradox, then, is that the balance of power imagined a year ago has been completely reversed: in the summer of 2026, you could say that Kean needs Como more than Como need Kean. At the same time, though, Fàbregas’ team have signed, in order, the centre-forward they were missing, one of the best Italian players around — an important detail when it comes to squad lists, both in Serie A and in the Champions League, where homegrown players are required — and one of the very few players in the league who could give their ambitions another boost. And not just this season, either, but looking further ahead. Moise Kean has been part of the elite for ten seasons now, yet he still has not turned 27. So he is not an exception to the rule; he remains a perfect Como-style investment.
And so, in light of all this, there really are no more doubts: Como have to be considered genuine contenders for anything. Even the Scudetto, why not? After all, Fàbregas’ team took 71 points last season and came within touching distance of the Coppa Italia final; this year, the players and the project have another year of experience behind them, while Kean, Ricci — another excellent signing — Chalobah, Milla, Liberali, Yan Couto and Kambwala have all arrived. There have been no significant departures, either. Quite the opposite: all the talents who secured Champions League qualification a few months ago have stayed. There was not much more Como could have asked for, and it is difficult to imagine how the summer could have gone much better. Moise Kean, evidently, saw it the same way. And still does.