Como midfielder Jayden Osei Addai enters the 2026-27 planning cycle at a club that has just confirmed the signing of Mattia Liberali and is simultaneously pursuing Trevoh Chalobah from Chelsea — a transfer landscape that tells you everything about the scale of ambition surrounding a 20-year-old still finding his footing in Serie A.
The numbers around Osei Addai are modest but not dismissive. Twelve appearances, three goals, no assists, an average rating of 6.90 across a season in which Fà bregas's Como finished fifth with 68 points from 37 matches. That is a respectable return for a player of his age, but the club's trajectory demands more than respectability. Como's president Mirwan Suwarso has publicly declared the club's intention to model itself on the Los Angeles Lakers of Italian football, rejected a reported €60 million offer for Diao, and valued Baturina at €75 million. This is not an environment that waits patiently for gradual development.
The Liberali signing is the sharpest pressure point. Osei Addai's three goals give him a foothold, but Fà bregas now has more options in the middle third, and the squad-trimming exercise already underway — with Felipe Jack, Engelhardt, and Azon among those identified for departure — signals that the lariani are rationalising rather than simply accumulating. Osei Addai is not in the departure group as far as available information suggests, but the distinction between "not leaving" and "central to the project" is one he will need to close.
His AI overall score of 50 out of 100, against a projected ceiling of 68, reflects a player whose best football is still ahead of him rather than behind. The gap between current and potential is an argument in his favour — Fà bregas has shown throughout his time at Como a willingness to build around young talent rather than discard it — but that argument only holds if Osei Addai can push his output in a squad where competition for minutes is intensifying at every position.
The Chalobah pursuit adds another dimension. Como are not just signing attackers and midfielders; they are reinforcing across the pitch with players who carry Champions League-level profiles. Osei Addai is operating in a club that has accelerated past the stage where youth and potential alone secure a place in the eleven.
Three goals from twelve appearances is a rate worth building on. Whether FÃ bregas gives him the platform to do so in 2026-27 depends on how convincingly Osei Addai performs in pre-season against a squad that grows more competitive with each passing week.