CATANIA – Turn and turn you return to the starting point. This popular saying summarizes the current moment of Catania Calcio. It is seven o’clock in the evening on a Sunday that already knows early summer when we manage to talk to the president of Sigi, lawyer. Giovanni Ferraù to whom we immediately remind that “Rest assured that Catania will not fail”, a specific commitment made by the members of the Etna Spa with the city and, in particular, with the rossazzurra fans. «And now I tell you – Ferraù now replies – that the rossazzurra team will be enrolled in the championship. We are examining the situation carefully and contrary to what some may claim, Catania will participate in the next championship. We have discussions in progress and we have not closed the doors to anyone ».
He is aware that Sigi is taking on a great responsibility, in the last few hours there has been talk of a possible rapprochement with the lawyer. Joe Tacopina. There are margins for the reopening of the negotiation.
«I certainly do not rule it out. What is about to begin will be another busy week. With Joe, moreover, there was never any breakup. What I can reiterate is that we will register on June 28th. From the first calculations made, I believe that the same sum as last season will be needed ».
The lawyer Ferraù stops here, leaving a glimpse of a glimpse of Tacopina’s return to the scene, which however remains on its positions, i.e. first the reduction of the debt with institutional and private entities and then the dialogue could be reopened, but the weather is now the worst enemy for the future of Catania. Even the rossazzurra fans themselves do not hide the first signs of fatigue in the face of a football club that has become more a subject of judicial news than football and in the Court it is known that the written cards are counted and certainly not the words.
Another championship has ended and the epilogue on the field was bitter, but what worries most are the large debts with the many creditors and we also refer to private individuals who at any moment could get tired and immediately assert their own. rights. This is Catania today with a Court continuing at this pace that will be called to decide.
Someone is hoping for a counterpart regarding debt relief in record time, but what could not be done in five months can be done in less than a month? We understand that today Sigi’s lawyers will have a new contact with the provincial direction of the Revenue Agency in search of the definitive agreement that must have the approval of the regional office, figures have been leaked but no official press releases have been released. It is hoped to bring the installment of the amounts to be paid from 10 to 20 years.
The deadline of June 28, the date on which it will be necessary to register for the championship is certainly not far away and we must put together the necessary sum to avoid staying out. There are some questions to which in these twenty days it will be necessary to give answers with cards in hand because the people of Catania have the right to know the truth. Beautiful and ugly.
It also appears that some local entrepreneurs after a timid interest have elegantly withdrawn and we have therefore done well not to mention the names and surnames of those who seek only advertising sitting at a table. We renew the invitation to the mayor Pogliese to take, within the limits of his possibilities, those useful steps to facilitate certain negotiations.
There are also some discrepancies on the amount that will have to be paid by June 28, the parameters are softer – from 0.15 it has dropped to 0.10 – but it will still be necessary to complete the payments of the last football season. We do not believe that the 2.5 and 3 million that have been talked about in the last hours will be enough. Because it will not be necessary to pay only the 350 thousand euros of surety.
The skein remains tangled and in the city there is a continuous succession of rumors that are denied within a couple of hours. How long will this climate of uncertainty last? Local entrepreneurs also have a duty to move and you can still play the Tacopina card, considering, among other things, that the Italian-American manager is still willing to negotiate.