COSENZA A year ago at this time Cosenza was in full party mode (after months of justified anger and stress) for the salvation achieved in the playout of Brescia thanks to a goal by Meroni in injury time and the incoherent madness of the Lombardy curve. Since then, a lot of water has passed under the bridge. Viali’s farewell, the Caserta parenthesis and Viali’s return to bring the church back to the center of the village.
This time the approach to the summer season is passing with less anxieties and toxins to dispose of than in the past, but the more days go by the more the square is starting to look impatient to know details and confirmations on the future of the Sila team. Starting from the perennial “trending topic” of the last few weeks, which has a name and a surname: Gennaro Tutino.
After the recent demonstrations of affection mixed with tears from the city towards its champion, worthy heir to the legend Gigi Marulla, in Cosenza We eagerly await the date of June 15ththe last day on which the club will be able to rely on the Parma (owner of the Campania striker’s card) the right of redemption. A privilege that provides though the obligation to pay an amount of around two and a half million euros into the ducal coffers. A sum never disbursed by president Eugenio Guarascio for a single player in his over ten years of experience as a sports entrepreneur. In short, a story relating to Tutino’s stay or not in the rossoblù, which all football fans, and not only them, know well by now.
In the event of a redemption, it will be necessary to understand what the club intends to do: sell the vice-top scorer of the last Serie B to Serie A or abroad for at least double the amount (even if recently Tutino’s agent Mario Giuffredi said that “It is not unrealistic” to imagine a return of his client to the relegated Salernitanahistorical rival of Cosenza), guaranteeing a significant capital gain, or keeping an element in the workforce that would inevitably raise the technical rate and aspirations of a reality that so far has never been able to ask fate for anything other than a simple (and almost always tormented) salvation ?
But while waiting to know the answer, and possibly delve deeper into the discussion linked to the fate of Gennaro Tutino, there are other dossiers that have been gathering dust on the Lametino patron’s desk for some time. Over all, the possible reconfirmation of sporting director Roberto Gemmi, who Bari would have had their eyes on in the last few hours. For about three weeks now there has been talk of an imminent meeting between the two parties to sign the renewal of the contract, which expires in June. Sports newspapers have been competing for days to secure the scoop of the prediction: “Next week will be the decisive week”; “Here we are: tomorrow, at the latest the day after tomorrow, Guarascio meets Gemmi”; «Guarascio-Gemmi, the meeting is postponed for a few days», and so on.
Guarascio himself a week ago at Palazzo dei Bruzi, during the delivery ceremony of the “Golden Seal” of the city of Cosenza to Gennaro Tutino, he hinted that he had clear ideas on the issue. However, the fact remains that time passes inexorably and the certainties, despite the fact that newfound enthusiasm and general optimism are the most popular for now, are starting to diminish. Unlike the diplomatic words and bar chatter that abound instead.
It is easy to understand that Tutino and Gemmi’s stay in Cosenza, as well as on the sentimental aspect, is also and above all linked to ambitions (or rather, to the money that the patron will be willing to put into the pot) ahead of next season. That phrase from Guarascio “we are working for Tutino” while he was surrounded by cheering fans for the sole idea of being able to have a chance to see the player again in the rossoblù shirt, at the moment, thinking realistically, appears weak, as well as factual. Redeem Tutino to tie him for life, or so, to the red and blue colors (with the substantial or otherwise substantial help of solid sponsors willing to accept living in Guarascio’s shadow), it would mean radically overturning a modus operandi based, from 2011 to today, on a tired survival devoid of mental and passionate openness. Redeeming Tutino to tie him for life, or so, to the rossoblù colors would necessarily mean ensuring the player (and the sporting director in waiting) the creation of a high-altitude, and therefore expensive, team.
So, the question is obligatory: is Cosenza football, this Cosenza football, economically and culturally ready for a change of pace of this magnitude? ([email protected])
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