The edition of Republicon the investigation involving the former president of Genoa and Livorno, the entrepreneur Aldo Spinelli, heard Massimo Cellino. Who, in common with Spinelli, has a passion for football, given that Spinelli was patron of Genoa from 1985 to 1997, and then of Livorno from 1999 to 2021. “Aldo – says Cellino – he’s as stingy as a goat. I know him better than the back of my hand, I don’t believe a single line of the corruption accusations made against him. All bullshit. He just got fooled by politics, once again. Aldo is someone who has worked hard like this all his life, let alone if he goes to throw everything away like this. Rather, he is a character who has always made a mistake in thinking that he can allow himself to say everything, or almost everything.”
“Once – says the former president of Cagliari and Leeds, now in charge of Brescia – on holiday in Puerto Rico I took him to the clinic to treat conjunctivitis. They made him wait and he started screaming that he wanted to buy the whole hospital. When in Serie A it was decided to go from two to three points for a victory, it must have been 1994 or 1995, in a League meeting he made a scene because he had just signed Rock as a coach and said: Belin, he’s only ahead of me by draws, I’m ruined. I don’t believe it – he concludes Cellino – to accusations of corruption. Aldo is above all a lonely man, who has never had time for friends, and could not cope with the loss of his wife, an extraordinary woman. He has been working continuously for 84 years, the day he stops doing so he dies. He just thought about relaunching again, about new works, once again.”
