Fiorentina head coach Fabio Grosso confirmed on August 29 that Moise Kean, the Viola's 26-year-old striker, remains at the club and has not been sold to Como, with the transfer window still open and no agreement finalised between the two clubs.
The significance is that what appeared to be a concluded saga — Kean having reportedly reached personal terms with Como — has not translated into a completed deal. Fiorentina have not agreed a fee, and Grosso's public framing of Kean as still part of the squad, alongside a stated focus on the upcoming match against Frosinone, suggests the club is not yet prepared to treat the striker as gone.
That posture carries its own tension. The relationship between Kean and Fiorentina has deteriorated sharply in recent days, with the club having fined him following a training incident. A player who has made his desire to leave explicit, and who has been disciplined for it, is a difficult asset to reintegrate — even temporarily. Grosso's insistence that the squad is focused and unified reads less as a resolution of that tension than as a coach managing a situation he did not create.
On the pitch, Kean's 2026-27 Serie A season has offered little to complicate the decision either way. One appearance, no goals, no assists, and a rating of 6.50 in a match Fiorentina lost while conceding four — the numbers reflect a team and a player still finding their footing, though the circumstances make it impossible to separate individual performance from collective dysfunction. His Coppa Italia return of one goal from one appearance, produced for the club before the current Serie A campaign, is the only scoring contribution on record this season.
Fiorentina sit 19th in Serie A with no points from their opening match, and the pressure to stabilise the squad before the window closes is real. The club is reportedly pursuing alternatives, with Swedish winger Njie from Torino emerging as a target on the left flank — a different profile to Kean, but a signal that Fiorentina's recruitment thinking has already moved beyond him.
The question now is whether Como and Fiorentina can agree terms before the window shuts, or whether Kean remains at a club that has fined him, in a squad preparing for Frosinone, under a coach who is publicly saying all the right things while privately managing a situation with no clean exit.
Grosso's squad will move forward regardless. Whether Kean is in it is a commercial question, not a footballing one.