PERUGIA These are days of reflection within Perugia, waiting for improvements (read: restructuring of the Covid-debt) which could allow a more peaceful restart and relaunch ambitions.
The reflection concerns the team group that has just lost the possibility of returning to Serie B in the ongoing playoffs and will obviously have to be reviewed, if and how deeply it is all to be decided. In the meantime, however, Perugia will be able to operate on solid foundations. Starting from the fact that, while in these days almost all clubs are working to find a sporting director and a coach, Perugia does not have this need having already confirmed both Jacopo Giugliarelli and Alessandro Formisano. The lack of technical continuity has always been the concern of the club, which is trying to restart in an openly hostile place and rebuild on the rubble of a double relegation in four years.
Well, the confirmation of sporting director and coach from one championship to another in Perugia had been missing since 2014-2015, when it started again with Goretti and Camplone after the promotion from C to B. Nesta was also “confirmed” in the 2017-2018 season but it was only took over in the playoffs against Venezia.
Sport director Giugliarelli (following Formisano’s instructions) will however be able to take advantage of the considerable advantage, compared to last season, of knowing the category and the objectives to be achieved as well as the available budget (should the debt restructuring be accepted, the exits will have to correspond to the revenue) and will have the opportunity to work from a base of 22 owned players. First of all the youngsters: during the last championship and in unsuspecting times the baby Souarè, Viti, Polizzi, Lickunas and Agosti were made to sign three-year contracts, the same will happen to the goalkeeper Luca Moro upon his return from the loan to Piacenza in D, therefore all expiring in 2027. With the contract expiring in 2026 there are instead Vulikic, Dell’Orco, Lewis, Cancellieri, Torrasi, Giunti, Lisi, Seghetti, Sylla, Angella and Bartolomei. However, Matos, Ricci and Vazquez remain until 2025. Santoro (expiring 2026) and Morichelli (2025) must then be added to this group, but they will not be part of next year’s group: the midfielder should in fact be bought out by Modena and the defender moved elsewhere.
About twenty griffins from which to extrapolate the nucleus of the next championship, because obviously not all will remain while young players will be added on loan from higher category clubs in the wake of the various Paz, Mezzoni and Bozzolan, as well as more experienced players.
Revenues are not predictable at the moment as they will depend, as always, on expenditures. The plan is to try to complete the rejuvenation of the squad which began last summer with the parallel objective of lowering the wage bill. While the departure of Seghetti and Lewis is not at all a given, they can potentially bring substantial capital gains to the club but only in the event of adequate and important offers. In attack, where Sylla and Vazquez are also owned, perhaps it will be appropriate to make adjustments and find a double-digit striker, but these are evaluations that will be made later. Meanwhile on Friday Iannoni – who Perugia will redeem while waiting for Salernitana’s possible counter-redeem – will be awarded by the Club Coordination as “Best Grifone” of the last championship at the Store Stile Gioiello in via Cortonese.
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