In July 2009, he left for Lega Pro Prima Divisione club Reggiana along with Marco Romizi and Lorenzo Morelli[4] for a peppercorn fee of €1,000 each.
[5] In the same window, La Viola also signed Matteo Arati (for €400,000) and Maxwell Acosty (for €125,000); it made the deal was a partial cash-plus-player-swap.
[6] (Aya also returned to Reggio Emilia in August for €500) The deals made La Viola paid Reggiana €349,500 in net.
Manfredini only able to play in the Primavera (literally "spring") league as overage player,[8] replacing the departed Andrea Seculin.
Manfredini finally returned to first team on 6 April, where he received a call-up as third keeper (which was occupied by Edoardo Pazzagli but his contract was set to expire on 30 June 2012), behind second-choice Neto.
[19] Despite the expire of the loan of Colombi, Modena also signed Marco Costantino from Juventus[20] in player swap to compete with Manfredini.