There Virtus Bologna archives the playoffs against the battleship Milan where they failed to make the advantage of home advantage count, at the end of a season that began amidst a thousand uncertainties such as the farewell to Scariolo a week before the start of the Super Cup and a budget already reduced by the adversities of the Zanetti group, still taking home the 2023 Italian Super Cup and a EuroLeague season that saw her as a protagonist for a long time alternating between second and third place, as well as having concluded the LBA regular season as number 1.
With bowls still in place, there is already work to be done on restarting the blocks for the 2024-25 season. Segafredo put the first piece in place, announcing the renewal of the sponsorship for a lower sum, but still around 5-6 million and thus guaranteeing registration in the next EuroLeague. Only one year, but it would have been almost impossible to extract more from the new CEO of the group, called to resolve a debt situation.
The budget will necessarily be lower but not by much. It will probably depend on the arrival of new sponsors in whose favor we could even miss out on the concession for the team’s name. This will allow us to set up a worthy and competitive team but also to make Luca Banchi work with a long-term project that he necessarily didn’t have the chance to set up, shining precisely in facing difficulties day by day as he managed some time ago in Pesaro . The commitments with Latvia in the summer will not be an obstacle.
