The future of Perugia Calcio: between the summer transfer market and ambitions
The future of Perugia Calcio – by Gianluca Drusian – And so, at the end of June, everything is just as it was before! That is, the time of certified e-mails is over and also the only one that could have brought the “president” Santopadre to the “ballot” (remaining on the electoral theme) or the entrepreneur Claudio Sciurpa, declined his offer, remaining, however, according to him, always available as soon as the “patron” decides to change his will.
Which, as already anticipated on another occasion and as demonstrated for at least two years now, was, is and will be to remain in the saddle of his “designer” horse. Willingness which, therefore, remains unchanged in terms of selling what appears to be a truly valuable piece if it is true as has been demonstrated by Sciurpa himself that Santopadre, in the name and on behalf of the property, would have refused “nothing less than” the sum of six million and half a euro. A huge amount. A figure that would really represent the business value, let’s call it in a “non-technical” way, of this company? Inexplicable, incomprehensible and truly mysterious.
But, then, it is not true that holding Perugia Calcio is nothing but a losing bet. And yet there were those who claimed the opposite. And, in the game of raising offers and selling or not selling, the entrepreneur Sciurpa also lost his teeth, who, however, has finally demonstrated that Perugia is not attractive to anyone, but rather the problems and obstacles to the sale of the company come from a single party that, legitimately, looks after its own interests but does not seem to want to look after those of the city, its fans and any other component of civil society that could be involved in the public interest.
To put it as it is fashionable these days in Perugia: the negotiation for the sale of Perugia Calcio is not a “participated” negotiation but, above all, it shows that it is not and does not have anything of “beauty and hope”. But Perugia is moving forward in any case. Thus, during the week, the groups of C were drawn with the Grifoni who will play in the same group as Ternana, Arezzo and Gubbio. There will also be Ascoli and Pianese in addition to Pineto and Milan Futuro and will begin its efforts on the field on August 25th.
Mister Formisano, of whom the ds Giugliarelli reiterated the absolute union of intent and trust, will find the team at the headquarters on July 14 and from Pian di Massiano, on that day, the summer efforts will begin. Hard work, flights of stairs and steps under the strong sun of the Genna plain await the Grifoni but, above all, pages and pages of schemes and counter-schemes to assimilate by heart and tactical modules to adapt to the next opponents such as Pianese that will have to be put on the field to face all the obstacles that will have to be overcome in a big way.
Ds Giugliarelli who, in the meantime of the market passing, after having settled the outgoing business and after having collected that amount that the market itself will say, will have the possibility of looking for new players without having to exceed the limit of the income in terms of expenses because this is what the block on the market forces us to do (which will last for three sessions, not a little) determined by the agreement on the debt signed and approved by the civil court of Perugia this week.
In doing so, between free agents, those returning from loans and the few owned ones, everyone will leave Perugia. Adamonis went to Catania, Kouan to Cosenza, Cesena wants Vulikic, Iannoni perhaps to Pisa and still others who need to settle down like Bartolomei, Dell’Orco, Matos, perhaps Lisi, Seghetti and others will ensure that the work of the sporting director can also bring rich professional satisfaction.
So who will arrive at Formisano’s court? The hope is that the ds can have, at the end of the day, a suitable budget to build a team worthy of representing his fans because, if this were not the case, he too should do as Sciurpa or come out into the open perhaps letting go of the opportunity granted by Santopadre because others could still arrive such as for example, who knows, a call from Florence by the ds Goretti or from further away from Turin or something else. In the city, in the meantime, the comments around Perugia are all aimed at pessimism and the fans go as far as to hypothesize a “strike” of the season ticket: “it was better when things were worse”, someone said in front of the Perugia Museum. Sacred and bitter truth.
