“Historic day, the future belongs to Rosanero now. Palermo is spinning!”, Headlines Tuttosport on newsstands today.
The day to remember as May 29, 2004 or June 12 last year. Eighteen years ago, Palermo were relegated to Serie A after a life-long hiatus, last month the Rosanero club brought back the B it lost after deregistration in 2019. from the local entrepreneur who revived it – Dario Mirri – to the city of Sheikh Mansour. Football group. An epochal turning point, marking the entry of an Arab group into Italian football and making Palermo fans dream.
Negotiations have been closed for a long time, yesterday in a notary’s office in Milan under the leadership of the Lazar Bank, which for several months has been searching for buyers, signatures were affixed on the transfer of ownership. Mansour took 80% of the shares at a cost of 13 million euros, the rest remained in the hands of Mirri (who will still be president) and Amici Rosanero (a sort of popular shareholder structure with 0.2%). There are no official releases, but there will be a press conference on Monday to announce the new corporate structure. And from what turns out in Palermo, there will be the general fortunes of the Mansour group, headed by Ferran Soriano, who is the general director of the Anglo-Arab holding. Next to him are Giovanni Gardini (the future CEO of the Rosanero club), lawyer Roberto Galassi, who is on the board of the City Football Group, and Michele Centenaro, the ECA general secretary, who played a leading role in the negotiations between Mirri and the new owner.
Therefore, it will be necessary to wait another 48 hours before the official landing, then on Monday morning the curtain on the operation will be lifted and the strategies of the new group will be understood. Palermo is the eleventh team in the Mansoor galaxy and also the biggest and hottest pizza. If the deal went through, it’s also due to the show the city was able to offer in the playoffs, as Barbera always sold out four home matches that then lost Serie B. In Palermo, of course, he dreamed for weeks, now the fans are waiting, to understand how the new owner is going to meet the next Serie B championship and what are the long-term projects.
In the boiler should be the construction of a sports center in Torretta (a municipality on the outskirts of Palermo) and the reconstruction of the Barbera stadium, which the city leadership will probably always talk about on Monday with the new mayor. Roberto Lagalla. “Hopefully, as mayor and as a fan of Palermo, that the new owner will improve the sporting results achieved so far, making the fans more proud of their team,” Lagalla writes in a note. The municipal administration will always be ready to establish an always open dialogue with the new company.”
Thus, there are no outstanding issues, and it is certain that they will be immediately resolved by the people of Mansour, who do not waste time even in the market. On July 10, Palermo will begin their retirement, but the team is largely incomplete, given that seven of the “heroes” of the last promotion were expiring, and someone else had already left due to the end of the loan. Among them is Brunori’s top scorer, who was at the center of the meeting between DS Renzo Castagnini, technician Silvio Baldini and Luciano Zavagno, scout of the city, who moves to determine the correct profiles in the city’s orbit. The striker’s return is a priority and contacts with Juventus, who own the Italo-Brazilian card, have intensified over the course of several days. We are working on the final sale, and who knows if the new property will give a gift to the fans on Monday.
Source: Tutto Mercato Web
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