Benevento
(fs) Sitting around a table, hypothesizing future scenarios. President Vigorito, director Carli and coach Auteri would like to start laying the foundations for next season this afternoon. There is no shortage of difficulties, it will be necessary to study every move with great clarity, also clinging to some intuition that goes beyond a simple protocol.
There is a base from which to start again and this is the good part of the story: a nice mixed group, with talented players and young prospects. “If you have laid the foundations it is easier to rebuild”, said the patron as soon as the match against Carrarese ended. Story from just a week ago.
Then there’s the trickier part. Players “parked” in other teams, who return to the base, with their over-budget salaries and with stories that are not at all serene. Other clubs before the Giallorossi (Frosinone, for example…) took years before getting rid of the “waste” of the last Serie A, before rebuilding differently and taking back the top flight without the expensive trappings of the first leap of quality. Carli once again has that steep wall to climb before thinking in the round about next season’s team. “The intention is to start again with a group of 15/16 good players,” said the president post-Carrarese. And, speaking of the large group of returning players, he exclaimed: “If someone went the way of Canossa, maybe you’ll keep him…”. Historical quote (Henry IV waited 3 days and 3 nights in Canossa, on the Reggio Emilia Apennines, before being received and forgiven by Pope Gregory VII) to underline that only by admitting having made a mistake and giving maximum availability can one think of “recycling” oneself in Benevento next year.
The other side of the coin, no less complicated than the first, are the players, also under contract, who the company had no intention of confirming.
Then, there is the youth group: we are sure, there are some very interesting ones (“There are other Talia and Perlingieri, around in the youth teams”, said Vigorito), which simply need to be evaluated. Young people will never be a problem, if anything an opportunity.
After this arduous work, it would be necessary to dredge the market and surgically identify elements that could allow the existing group to do a further leap in quality.
One step at a time, starting from this afternoon. Benevento tries again.
