from the Envoy to S. CRISTINA (BZ)
The Rooster is not there. But it is as if there were. The curious people who climbed in Val Gardena to see the Toro in the Juric version talk about it, the Croatian technician himself talks about it with his collaborators and the club’s top management questions: Belotti will accept or not the offer put on the table by the owner Urbano Cairo ?
On the table of the blue champion of Europe, at the sea after the dream of Wembley, not indifferent figures have arrived for the historical moment that passes through our ball and for the latest releases, including those with the national team shirt, not exactly on the cover of the captain grenade: the Rooster experienced a season, from January onwards, full of pitfalls and pitfalls without forgetting the abrupt stop due to Covid when spring was about to begin.
The figures that testify to the will, not only in words, of Cairo engaged in the game of firmness (“I would like Andrea to stay with us”) since Toro took off the nightmare of Serie B, translate into a beautiful leap forward: today, Gallo’s salary is 1.8 million euros per season with another year of contract, if he decided to renew Belotti’s salary for another three or four seasons it would double without counting the possible personal bonuses and team.
Cairo is ready for a total investment of around 4 million a year until 2025 or 2026. An effort that takes on a very specific meaning: Belotti al Toro for life or almost. The Rooster took some time to send out signals. Not a very long time, because most of the grenade strategies depend on his decision: the relationship between Cairo and its captain is the son of a long acquaintance and there is no intention on the part of the player’s staff to create problems for the club with a push and pull stressful for the parties and not very strategic. This, at least, is the photograph of the moment in a world, that of the balloon, where scenarios and moods can change like the wind.
Belotti has pulled the plug after the European trip and is waiting for the possible suitors to come out: for now, net of a shy interest from Rome, silence. The European Championship could have given him an international dimension and credibility that has not matured: the blue number 9 came out of Euro 2020 as he entered, without rings and without skids with the verdict tied from the spot, a penalty made, wrong one. Little to overturn the consideration of foreign clubs, enough to be able to say that he made his contribution to the final triumph in London.
How much is the Rooster worth in this market? For Taurus no less than 30-35 million, for insiders less, much less. The future will be written in the coming weeks with a possible non-definitive way out: Belotti renews and, then, everything reopens. Certainly there is the offer from Cairo. And the figures on the table of the side that manages the striker should not be underestimated in a horizon of economic crisis from which football accounts cannot be immune. The captain’s match on tomorrow gets underway. –
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