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No increases for those who subscribe in July. Thus Virtus intends to repay those fans who, by trusting the club’s work, will renew or sign up for their season tickets from Monday. Until August the prices of the individual cards will remain locked to last year’s price list, then the price increases will start.
Today the black and white club will illustrate the details of this initiative that was made possible thanks to the white smoke that arrived yesterday, when the minority shareholder Carlo Gherardi and the CEO Luca Baraldi met Claudio Sabatini who manages the Unipol Arena.
The agreement to have the Black V play there for the first two months of the season has been reached and this allows us to organize a season ticket campaign without the initial barrier, which occurred last season when the playing facility it was the PalaDozza.
The Casalecchio arena has the same capacity as the temporary one at the Fair, in fact it is higher, but not even the most rosy expectation can lead us to think that it will sell out only with season ticket holders even if reports say that in the Euroleague often Segafredo exceeded 9 thousand spectators.
Subscribing with the many boxes that still need to be filled is a true act of faith in the company. At the moment the certainties are the confirmation of Luca Banchi on the bench and the permanence of Marco Belinelli, Daniel Hackett, Alessandro Pajola, Isaia Cordinier, Achille Polonara, to which is added the arrival of Andrejs Grazulis, while the market has not remained stationary for the internal operations of the ownership, also because in fact Gherardi has already paid the sum of one million and 200 thousand euros required by the capital increase and the operation will be ratified during the shareholders’ meeting tomorrow.
Toko Shengelia’s position is the real issue that has tied the club’s hands. Virtus will not exercise the exit clause from the contract, but the player also has until Monday to exercise the right to free himself from the agreement by paying a buyout.
If this were not the case, the player’s salary would be around 2 million euros and if this salary were not to be spread with a contract extension it would burden the entire budget for next season, a budget which is around 16 million euros.
We will have to wait for all the moves of the athlete before going to occupy the other boxes. In any case, if he does not lower his economic requests, it will be practically impossible to see Awudu Abass wear the jersey of the black V, while Bruno Mascolo will not be there, he will move to Treviso.
Finally, Stefan Nikolic returns to Serie A, a product of the Virtussino academy and who was the twelfth in the Juventus team that won the scudetto, wearing the Cremona shirt.
