Giornale di Sicilia: “Palermo already makes you dream. Soriano: “To A as soon as possible”

“Palermo City already makes you dream. Soriano: “In A ASAP”” captioned Journal of Sicily on newsstands today.

Work, humility and patience. Because the goal is clear and no one hides it, but we must move step by step. Ferran Soriano, the mastermind behind the City Football Group, welcomes Palermo to the global “family”, created in 2013 and today able to control clubs around the world at the highest level of professional football. Where the Rosaneros want to return quickly: “Our dream is to move to Serie A and that will be our goal for the next few years,” admits the Catalan coach. “We know it’s an ambitious target,” continues the Manchester holding’s CEO, “but this club deserves an A. We need to go step by step and work hard, we want to do it with respect for the history of Palermo.”

Without overdoing, without light declarations, without timing dictated by enthusiasm: “Humility is important, patience is important. We know this because we are football people and our goal is first of all to secure a foothold in Serie B. Obviously we want to move to Serie A, we dream of doing it very quickly, but we have to do everything step by step. “. Surely City know how to do it: “In Troyes we were promoted to Ligue 1 in the first year, in Girona it took three years to get back to the top flight.” Palermo, however, is not Troyes or Girona. The history of the club speaks for this, and this is evidenced by the numbers of the area that can attract more people to Barbera than the two stadiums of the “sisters” in France and Spain together could accommodate: “With Palermo, everything will be different,” Soriano continues – All our clubs are treated differently. We created New York from the ground up seven years ago, and there is no single template to do everything the same way. From now on, Palermo is part of a family that will help him do what he needs to do to be different from other clubs.”

Can this difference mean that one day we will again carry the Rosanero flag in European competitions, will show everything: “We all have a dream and we must take the fans with us. This is done with communication and honesty.” For UEFA, two clubs are controlled by the same
The owner cannot participate in the same competitions or tournaments linked to each other (therefore, so to speak, not in the Champions League and the Europa League, but in the Champions League and the Conference League). But these problems will be solved when Palermo can return and aim for certain goals on the field. The real Serie B and that’s what we need to focus on without upsetting the group that won the last Serie C playoffs, starting with DS Castagnini and coach Baldini present at the stadium to meet the new management: “For DS and the coach,” Soriano admits, “it’s a matter of stability. There was a moment in the history of Palermo when 28 coaches changed in 11 years, you can’t work like that. The coach and DS did a very good job, and that’s why they are with us. Then the second reason is stability We can work with Baldini just like we can with all of our other coaches.”

Also because the technique is general and in some way “called” by Guardiola. With the Manchester City manager, Soriano says he had a special curtain: “Guardiola asked me if it’s sunny in Palermo, maybe come here to work one day… He knows everything we do, he and the other people in the group are delighted . with this opportunity. Now every Palermo player will be followed by 4,000 people from all over the world.” Even those from the nursery: “The youth sector is fundamental for us in all our clubs and it will be in Palermo. We want to give all talented Sicilian children the opportunity to grow in football in the best way in the world. They can also go to Belgium or the USA, we will make sure that every talented young person in Palermo trains with us.”