{"id":910967,"date":"2026-09-30T11:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T11:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/910967\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T11:58:17","slug":"kones-value-continues-to-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/910967\/","title":{"rendered":"Kone&#8217;s value continues to rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gian Piero Gasperini has enjoyed a new Manu Kon\u00e9 this season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The French midfielder\u2019s value has risen with each match, thanks in part to Zidane\u2019s appointment as a key player for his national team. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, the Grugliasco-born coach awaits him back at Trigoria to get back to work. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Giallorossi coach, in fact, wants to complete Kon\u00e9\u2019s transformation, transforming him from a defensive midfielder into a defensive attacker, from a defensive midfielder to a midfielder capable of attacking spaces and deciding matches in the opposition\u2019s penalty area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Transfermarkt estimates, Kon\u00e9\u2019s value has increased by \u20ac10 million, making him the most valuable midfielder in Serie A (\u20ac60 million). His brace against Inter could be just the beginning of the new version of the 2001-born player. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As reported by Corriere dello Sport, Gasperini\u2019s transformation is summarized in a few numbers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach player is Roma\u2019s second-most accurate passer (90.2%), compared to last season (0.44), now producing 1.40 shots per 90 minutes. Even more significant is the increase in shots on target: from 0.18 to 0.84.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gian Piero Gasperini has enjoyed a new Manu Kon\u00e9 this season. The French midfielder\u2019s value has risen with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":910968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-910967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}