The word “end” will be spoken on Friday 5 July, but the dialogue between the winger and the club has brought the Georgian closer to staying: there is great confidence
The long-awaited shareholders’ meeting from the Virtus Bologna it took place without any particular shocks compared to forecasts. The capital increase of Max Gherardi it followed the figures hypothesized on the eve (€1,200,000, with a 5% increase in the shares of the Vu Nere managed by the president of CRIF); the permanence of Luca Banchi as a technical guide and Paul Ronci as DG were agreed in substance.
The budget available to CEO Baraldi is around €16 million in total, no more and no less than expected. For the fans, however, he was mainly interested in knowing one thing: Toko Shengelia rimane?
By July 1stthe former Baskonia and CSKA player has the opportunity to be released from his contract €2 million per year which binds him to Virtus through the payment of the relevant fee buyout: the Bologna management has no reason to believe, at least according to the discussions with Octagon (Shengelia agency, ed.), that #21 has this intention.
Technically, Segafredo would have the option of withdrawing from the contract with the Georgian player itself by Friday July 5th: unless there is an unsolvable confrontation, the move would make no sense from an economic point of view, as it would not be possible to receive anything in the event of Shengelia’s agreement with any other team, both in the NBA and in the Euroleague.
The proposal to extend the agreement, so as to spread the salary of a season in at least 24 months, has not found the please from Toko: a renewal or a new negotiation will have to be discussed later, but only the guarantee of having such an important slice of the seasonal budget committed to thetechnical epicenter of Banchi’s roster could allow operators on the Juventus market to take their first steps.
We now need to understand what the priorities are in the basketball market for Virtus. If the Black Vu want to focus first on maintaining elements already present on the roster, the name to monitor in the next 24 hours is that of Awudu Abass; if Bologna instead tries to add some profiles as soon as possible, the variables in question are further branched.
Italian profiles will be preferred (il The Rest of the Pug hypothesizes the addition of Mouhamet Diouf in the long park) or foreign guards (again the Bolognese newspaper reports Banchi’s request for Chris Jonesleaving Valencia; the Courier of Bologna instead he writes about an agreement in the pipeline with Marcus Fosterwinner of the Lithuanian championship with Rytas and former teammate of Justin Gorham who landed in Tortona)? Questions that Virtus Bologna will soon want to give answers to.
