After Pisa, Turin and Rome, the Salernitana It is the fourth company as manager for Gianluca Petrachi who has a great desire to get back to work. The new sporting director of the Granata club thinks about the coach to hire and the team that needs to be refounded. Difficult missions don’t scare him and this one with the grenades can undoubtedly be placed in that category. Speaking of category, after twelve years he returns to Serie B, a championship that he said goodbye to in 2012 with promotion to Serie A with Torino.
From then on he collected various positive results in the top flight with the Cairo club. He obtains two qualifications in the Europa League (in 2014 and 2019 replacing Milan), discovers and enhances many players. He allowed Torino to make a lot of capital gains, capturing the attention of Roma who signed him in 2019. The experience in the capital, however, was not successful and lasted only a year. He is fired and replaced by Morgan De Sanctis. A legal battle begins with Roma which sees him prevail in the first instance while the Appeal finds him wrong. After a four-year break, Petrachi returns to the track and starts again from Salernitana in Serie B with a two-year contract.
In the official press release, the Granata company “also thanks the general director Walter Sabatini and his collaborator Pietro Bergamini for their work and commitment in recent months and wishes them the best professional luck”.
Thus ends the second adventure of Sabatini which will not be remembered like the first. In 2022 the expert Roman sports director was the protagonist of an incredible salvation with the instant team. Now he did not repeat the feat but this time perhaps he had accepted a situation that was too complicated, for various reasons. Sabatini is now part of the past. The future is called Gianluca Petrachi who has the not at all simple task of rebuilding the team in a short time, given that Rivisondoli’s retirement is just three weeks away, and with economic resources linked to the transfers of the players.
