Interviewed by the Province, Mayor Alessandro Rapinese firstly focused on the first part of the aforementioned equation. That is, the improvement works to ensure that Como, thanks to an exemption, can also play at home in the top category. In this regard, Rapinese said that Cesc Fabregas’ team is unlikely to start the season at Sinigaglia. The objective, in any case, is “to comply with all legal provisions, even if derogated, as soon as possible”. Translated: do everything and more to ensure that the inconvenience for the fans is reduced to a minimum. Thinking of playing the first match at home, we were saying, will be difficult. Rapinese again: «Frankly I think it’s very difficult. Obviously I am very sorry, but this period will be crucial and the idea of being able to move as one man with society, the key figure of the prefect and with the police commissioner, working well as has been done up to now, will allow us to reach the main objective, that is, to be able to play our first year in Serie A at Sinigaglia, the toughest one.” As for the other works, those to make the Sinigaglia a definitive and modern facility, Rapinese explained that he has a clear, if not very clear, vision: «The truth is that while all the remaining fans from the first day we start playing in home, even with the exemptions, will be able to enjoy the magnificence of the top flight, I and my offices will already be from work in anticipation of when these exemptions will expire and everything will have to be up to standard also because, with the debts, the club’s project and the Our aim is for Como to become a permanent presence in future Serie A. I imagine the current workload of this administration will not decrease for at least a couple of years.”
