Despite a multi-year – ten year – contract with Arezzo, which had represented a rarity in Italian football, the club and the General Director Paolo Giovannini said goodbyeor at the end of this season, which saw the Tuscan team reach the playoffs but immediately exit in the First Round of the Group Phase at the hands of a surprising Juventus Next Gen (for more still in the running in the play-offs). Obviously, there was no shortage of requests for the experienced manager, but there were immediate rumors of one of his own landing in Livornowho has had another disappointing year and must therefore now get back on his feet to really start aiming for a return to the pros.
And precisely about this, as we read above labrosport.itGiovannini spoke from the columns of The Tyrrhenian-Livornoeffectively confirming the possibility: “There was a handshake, what is called a “gentlemen’s agreement”: no contract but if Locatelli and his group take over Livorno, I’m ready to come to you (…) I’ve been on the job for 27 consecutive seasons, I’m in no hurry to settle down. Consider that I left Arezzo where I had a multi-year contract, I prefer to choose well. This opportunity in Livorno allows me to have a project that I really like if the operation starts, otherwise I will look around.”
The central issue of the issue is the transfer of ownership of the club, now in the hands of a highly contested Joel Esciua, increasingly at odds with the Labronica square. But with the ball in hand…
