Regarding the failed negotiation, to note the Acr Messinathe CEO of the group intervened with the Italian-Chinese consortium Hector Minor with a letter to all the club’s fans followed by a prompt clarification from the club Pietro Sciotto
Here is the text of the Chinese group in its entirety
With this letter, the CEO of the Chinese group wanted to send a message to the fans: “Dear Messinians, it was my concern to move in the most heartfelt silence to complete a negotiation that I had strongly wanted. I had wanted it exactly as it had taken place until 3 days ago, in the confidentiality which for me is synonymous with seriousness. But President Sciotto decided to make us come out into the open by pretending that we would have concluded with the signature during my days in Messina.”
“I brought professionals with me to guarantee a great project I had for this glorious company. Despite my willingness to take on huge debts and also to recognize the sum requested by Mr. Sciotto, we were victims of a waltz of second thoughts and head-turns that stunned us and greatly disappointed us after months of dialogue to define the signature that would due to take place this weekend. We were held hostage by a continuous (embarrassing) upward game. My bond with your land has distant and profound origins because my mother had your blood flowing in her veins which is also mine.”
“I would have taken on everything to bring Messina back to the top”
The message continues: “The idea of playing football where I have a piece of my heart pushed me to make use of professionals and investments such that I could hope to bring Messina football and its fans back to the fields they deserved. I tried hard but all my attempts, even very generous ones, were in vain compared to the out of place requests of the owners and today with certainty experienced first hand I can tell you that it will be unlikely that serious people will ever be able to sit at a table of negotiations with those who only want to raise the price of a wonderful company that today boasts a significant amount of debt. I would like to point out that I would have taken responsibility for those too in order to begin a phase of reconstruction and rebirth for Messina football. My sports project would have started from the total reconstruction of a fundamental part of a professional club, namely the youth sector, which to date has been totally abandoned with the acquisition of a training center worthy of the city’s coat of arms and gradually the construction (reconstruction) of a team that deserves much more important stages.”
In conclusion: “Having been working abroad for over thirty years, I am used to moving according to very specific objectives and projects and not navigating by sight, therefore not being competent in every football subject I had made important professionals in the sector available to my sporting idea . The club is not mine and will never belong to anyone because it belongs to the city and to the fans. I would only have been a skilled host. I am Sicilian and I am stubborn like you but against the wind it is difficult to row and I know that you have unfortunately encountered that wind against you too. A warm greeting to all the fans and the whole city. Ettore Minore CEO International Trade Market Ltd.”
Prompt response from the press office of Pietro Sciotto’s Messina company
In relation to the negotiation started with the potential buyer of Palermo origins, it should be noted that the ACR Messina did not consider the “less Chinese consortium to be so Minor”, suitable to give continuity, in the interests of Messina, to the sports project started 7 years ago by president Pietro Sciotto. It was deemed that suitable guarantees were not offered for the agreed amount, which was to be paid in installments. It is false that Messina has a significant debt mass, as stated; proof of this is that in 7 championships Pietro Sciotto’s Messina has never suffered any penalty points. Contrary to what Minore himself declared in an open letter, published by some press outlets, there was no change of heart on Pietro Sciotto’s part. The negotiation continued in the utmost confidentiality until Minore himself decided to make statements to the local press. After the failed negotiations to take over Grosseto, Viterbese, Sambenedettese, Marsala and Trapani, Minore will now be able to enrich his professional curriculum with the name of Messina.
See you at the next rounds of “summer waltz”
