Milan, Rome, Inter And Juventus they ‘dissociate’ themselves from the line of League of A on the reforms, on the eve of the meeting of the leaders of Coni, football and basketball with the minister for sport, Andrea Abodiin which we will talk about the Government’s project for an authority to control the budgets of professional clubs.
The big four’s offensive in Casini
With a letter to president Lorenzo Casini, who will represent the Leaguethe four companies ask “to clarify in advance” starting from tomorrow and in all institutional meetings that “the positions expressed and founded” on the document approved on 14 February by Serie A “are not shared and approved” by the four clubs, who had also voted for the modification of the championship with the reduction to 18 teams to facilitate numerous international commitments.
The letter from Juventus, Milan, Inter and Roma
“Dear President, following yesterday’s informal meeting, we would like to represent the following to you. During the meeting, reference was made on several occasions to positions represented by you in institutional bodies based on the document approved by the Lnpa Assembly on 14 February. Our societies did not approve that document, nor its contents. We therefore ask you, starting from tomorrow’s meeting with the Minister of Sport as well as in any other institutional context in which you will represent the positions of the Lega Nazionale Professionisti Serie A based on that document, to clarify in advance that these are positions that are not shared approved by our Clubs”.
Internal schism within Serie A
The letter is signed by the executives of Milan, Rome, Inter And Juventus: reiterated the firm desire not to be represented by Casini and, therefore, by the League, and that in institutional meetings the position it represents is not shared by these four clubs. Four clubs that alone represent 70% of football turnover in Italy, therefore, a sort of split which is no small feat.
The meeting between Casini and Abodi
Timings not to be underestimated: this letter arrives the day before an important meeting with the Minister of Sport, Andrea Abodi. In fact, at 3.30 pm the meeting will take place on the government’s project for the establishment of asupervisory authority of the financial management of professional clubs. The presidents of CONI, FIGC and FIP, Giovanni, were invited to the meeting MalagòGabriel Gravina and Gianni Petrucci, the president of the Serie A League, Casini, and the various components of the leagues. After the no’s from the clubs, the League he will speak on behalf of the teams: all except Juventus, Roma, Milan and Inter.
Lega Serie A responds to the big letter
It also arrived in the evening the League’s response which, in a note reported byHandle citing Lega Serie A sources, he wanted to reiterate his position regarding the proposal for autonomy from the FIGC “‘carried out on the mandate of all clubs’ is that the four clubs would only abstain from voting on the championship formula of 20 to 18 teams. On the other hand, tomorrow’s theme, the League underlines, is different, and all the clubs have said they are against the agency proposed by the government.”
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