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PERUGIA – A tough and blunt stance. After the protest under his home and the letter sent by the ultras to the affiliated clubs, the Perugia Clubs Coordination Center also asks Massimiliano Santopadre to leave the leadership of the club. «The Coordination Center – we read in a post on social media signed by the management – after years of disillusioned expectations, asks Santopadre to leave, to sell Perugia Calcio, to abdicate».
For the Perugia clubs, these years were characterized by «promises never kept, zero investments, results that led to a decline in image and ranking, the absence of sports programming even at youth level, total absence of relationships with the fans and the territory, reducing football to a last-division reality, brought ever further down. For the first time in history, the environment, the fans, the city, have never been so united in contesting the actions and ways of a President, who is asked to step aside, avoiding continuing to hold hostage an entire community that deserves greater respect and dignity”. The Coordination Center asks the owner for «an act of dignity, to leave our team to others. The most important shareholder, the fan, has been vilified and derided for years due to behaviors and choices that have never gone in the direction of true football interests.” According to the board of directors, there have been too many “vain promises, infinite errors without remedy, numerous attitudes with which a distance has been created like a chasm, so all that remains is to take a step back”. The post continues: «It is not up to us to choose who should buy Perugia but it is up to us to decide that this club has run its course, having always said that it would sell in the face of offers. Now they are there, they are public, so it is time for the president to sell this club, giving those who want the good of Perugia the chance to do so, avoiding continuing to procrastinate and take time.”
