"Parma" and "Palermo" exchanged goalkeepers © EuroFootball.com

Not very successfully competing in the Italian championships this season, clubs decided to exchange goalkeepers until the summer. Parmas team rented for six months, and under the rental agreement Matteo Guardalbenas moves to Sicily. Palermo has been looking for a new goalkeeper for a long time and has been associated with many players, so the 31-year-old M. Guardalbenas also decided to look for a new club, and now he will be able to try to help the "Parma" team, which occupies the 16th place in the championship, to rise from the lower part of the tournament table. 27-year-old C. Lupatelli, who has also represented "Roma", Verona's "Chievo", "Fiorentina" clubs in the past four years, arrived at the "Parma" team this summer and was unable to secure a place in the main lineup. He will have to prove his worth playing for the "Palermo" club, which started the season impressively, but later fell into a playing crisis and dropped to the middle of the tournament table. These are not the only players in Italy who changed teams at the beginning of the year. "Torino", competing in "Serie B", acquired Greek national team striker Zis Vryzas and swapped defender Claudio Ferrarese. Meanwhile, the club's forward, according to the Italian press, is very close to a transfer to Madrid. It is believed that the player has already agreed with the royal club on a five-year contract, earning between 4 and 4.5 million euros. "Roma" should receive 5 million euros for their demanding star, but in order to finalize negotiations, the clubs will still need to agree on when this amount will be paid by "Real".