Frosinone winger Farès Ghedjemis has not featured in a single minute of Massimiliano Alvini's Serie A campaign, with the 23-year-old absent again as the ciociari opened their 2026-27 season with a 0-1 home defeat to Juventus on 24 August — and a raised bid from Beşiktaş has done nothing to change his mind about where he wants to go next.
The transfer standoff is now the defining story of Ghedjemis's summer. The Turkish club improved their offer and briefly moved ahead of AS Monaco in financial terms, yet Ghedjemis has held his position: it is Monaco or nothing. That kind of clarity from a 23-year-old midfielder, rated at 74 out of 100 with a projected ceiling of 80, is either conviction or leverage — possibly both. His one appearance this season came in the Coppa Italia, not in Serie A, and produced an assist. It is the only competitive evidence Alvini has of Ghedjemis in a Frosinone shirt this term, and it may well be the last.
For Frosinone, the arithmetic is already uncomfortable. One match played, one defeat, no goals scored, one conceded — 16th in the table with zero points. Bremer's opener for Juventus, assisted by Conceição, settled the contest at the Stirpe, and the woodwork denied the visitors a more emphatic margin. Alvini's squad is short of attacking output, and the player best positioned to provide it is negotiating his exit rather than training for the next fixture.
The broader question is what Ghedjemis's preference for Monaco reveals about his ambitions. Beşiktaş offered more money; he declined. Monaco represents a different kind of project — a club with Champions League proximity and a track record of developing players in his age bracket. For a midfielder with an AI potential score of 80, the calculus is less about the immediate fee and more about the environment in which those remaining points of development are earned.
Frosinone's leverage diminishes with every passing matchday. A player excluded from the squad entirely — not even on the bench for the Juventus fixture — is a player whose relationship with the club has reached a functional endpoint. Alvini cannot build around someone who is not there, and Ghedjemis cannot develop in a vacuum.
The window will resolve this one way or another. If Monaco move, Ghedjemis goes. If they don't, Frosinone face the awkward task of reintegrating a player who has made his preferences public and unmistakable.