Good stuff, hope its true. He gets my vote, i must admit i haven't seen much of him especially in club football but he has always played well on both ends when i did see him and that is something we are lacking with our full backs.
I own him in a fantasy league game I play in XT, so I make it my bussiness to keep myself updated on him (why I know Ferronetti benches him alot), and he hasnt been in the squad for Udinese in the last 3 games.
And NO injury has been reported as the reason, in gazzetta, when other injuries are usually. So perhaps Marino knows he is going away, and decided to not use him? Probably not, but you never know.
The real question is, where were really interested in the first place to say that we missed out? I remember very well Secco denying all transfer rumours at least twice only this January.