The absence itself is the punctuation mark on a season that promised more than it delivered. Kean, 26, finishes the Serie A year with eight goals and one assist across 26 appearances, an average rating of 6.70, and a club sitting 15th in the table on 41 points from 37 matches — nine wins, fourteen draws, fourteen defeats. The arithmetic is blunt: Fiorentina scored 40 goals all season, and Kean contributed to nine of them. He was, in other words, the clearest attacking thread in a side that struggled to find any consistent offensive identity.
That context matters when assessing Kean's individual numbers. Eight goals in 26 matches is a respectable return for a striker operating behind a team that has conceded 49 times and won fewer than a quarter of its league games. He was not the problem. He was, on many matchdays, the solution — and the fact that Fiorentina still find themselves in the bottom half of the table reflects the scale of the structural issues Vanoli inherited or could not resolve.
The late absences complicate the picture further. Missing the trip to face Juventus — a fixture with obvious personal significance for Kean — is a detail that will follow him into the summer. Whether those withdrawals reflect physical accumulation, a knock, or something else, the data does not say. What it does say is that he was unavailable when the club needed contributions most.
An AI overall rating of 67 out of 100 suggests the ceiling is still visible, still reachable. At 26, Kean is not a project; he is a player who should be producing at the highest level of Serie A, not anchoring a side that spent the season looking over its shoulder. The summer will force a reckoning — for Kean, for Vanoli's Fiorentina, and for whoever decides whether this partnership has run its course or simply needs a more competitive frame around it.
Eight goals for a 15th-placed side is a decent individual record dressed in the wrong kit.