Sale by 31/12 or exclusion from Serie A
La Salernitana runs against the clock: if it does not find a buyer by December 31st, will be excluded from Serie A. As if the obstacles of Covid-19 were not enough, which also hindered the race of the amaranth team, the governance del club it is in stark contrast to federal regulations and a change of course is needed within the year. With the promotion last summer in the top flight of Italian football, Salernitana entered into a conflict of interest with Lazio, as both companies are headed by Claudio Lotito. As established by the FIGC rules, the club’s dues have been entrusted to two trusts, Better Trust e Widar Trust, who have been given the mandate to manage the situation until the end of the calendar year, ferrying the Campania team to a new property.
Possible Buyers and Cancellation Risk
Rumors about interested parties continue to chase each other. There is a lot of talk about the consortium put together by Domenico Cerruti e Simone Ferrara, while more secluded there is Console&Partners and instead the Swiss company Implenia (initially given as a favorite) has made it known that he has no interest in the operation. However, times are now very tight and, categorically excluding any extension, it is already known how the ranking would change in the event of Salernitana’s exclusion in the race: the ranking would be changed by removing the points that each team has obtained against Franck Ribery and companions, the tournament would continue with 19 teams instead of 20 (one should rest at each round) and the relegated would be only two, instead of the three initially planned.
Foreign investors in love with Italian football
There are those who hope that Salernitana (and the credibility of the championship) can be saved in a corner at the last minute, perhaps with the entry of yet another foreign investor in Italian football. Encouraged by an economic situation that makes home-grown top-tier clubs much cheaper than English ones, there are already eight tycoon players who have bought one of the 20 Serie A clubs. There is a lot of excitement even in the lower leagues, as evidenced by the recent purchase of 60% of the Cesena by Jrl Investment Partners LLC, by the Americans John Aiello and Robert Lewis. Among the clubs passed into foreign hands there are also the most historic and famous of our football, including the Milan (of the American fund Elliott), theInter (of the Chinese of the Suning Holdings Group) and the Genoa (from the USA 777 Partners fund), which in any case boasts nine league titles on the bulletin board and the title of the oldest club in our football. American is also spoken at home Roma (Dan Friedkin), Bologna (Joey Saputo), Spice (Robert Piatek), Venezia (Duncan Niederauer) e Fiorentina (Rocco Commisso, albeit with a splendid Calabrian accent). Who knows that even in Salerno, a city with deep Etruscan roots, the blow of the last hour will fail, bewitching a Scrooge from across the border with its beauties, perhaps determined to make a name for himself in our country with a worn-out but always very effective tool: the ball.