Como have renewed their interest in Fiorentina forward Moise Kean this summer, even as the Viola press ahead with a pre-season rebuild that is pulling the squad in several directions at once. The 26-year-old, who finished the 2025-26 Serie A campaign with eight goals and one assist across 26 appearances, now finds his position complicated not by any failure of his own but by the velocity of change around him.
The nut of it is this: Fiorentina ended last season 14th in the table with 42 points from 38 matches — a return of nine wins, fifteen draws and fourteen defeats — and new head coach Paolo Vanoli has inherited a squad that sporting director Fabio Paratici is actively reshaping. Comuzzo has moved to Torino, Matias Moreno to Venezia, and Real Madrid academy product Victor Valdepenas has arrived. The club's pre-season has already produced a 3-2 defeat to QPR, with Roberto Piccoli among the scorers. The direction of travel is clear: Fiorentina are not standing still, and every position is being reassessed.
Kean's numbers from last season tell a story that is neither damning nor decisive. Eight goals in 26 matches at an average rating of 6.70 is the output of a striker who contributed without dominating — useful, but not the kind of volume that makes a club resist transfer interest with conviction. An AI overall score of 67 out of 100 suggests the ceiling is close to where the floor already sits, which is a different kind of pressure: not a player who needs to unlock his talent, but one who needs to find an environment where his current level is valued and built around.
Como's return to the table is the most concrete development. Their interest is not new, but its persistence matters. A club with ambition and a clear attacking project could offer Kean something Fiorentina's transitional moment cannot guarantee: centrality. At the Viola, Vanoli is still defining his system, Paratici is still moving pieces, and the arrival of Piccoli as a pre-season contributor signals that the striker position is not closed.
Fiorentina's 41 goals scored last season — the lowest attacking return their league position might suggest — also raises a structural question. If Vanoli intends to build a more productive attack, does Kean fit the profile, or does the club need a different type of forward to change that number? The answer to that question will determine whether Como's interest becomes a negotiation.
Kean is not a player in crisis. He is a player at a crossroads that was not of his making, in a club mid-renovation, with a concrete alternative on the table. The next few weeks will clarify whether Fiorentina see him as part of the solution or as a saleable asset in a window where they are clearly willing to sell.