MILAN. Serie A asks the FIGC to save Salernitana. This is the position that emerged from the Lega assembly that took place today in a hotel in Milan. With 18 votes in favor (Lazio and Salernitana alone abstained) the decision was approved to ask the two representatives of the top division in the Federal Council – Beppe Marotta and Claudio Lotito – to bring the request to terminate the current championship in Salernitana under the management of the trust without obligation to sell on 31 December, as established in recent months by the federal president Gabriele Gravina.
It is a difficult problem to solve born after the promotion to Serie A of Salernitana owned by Lotito like Lazio. An impossible situation that led to the custody of the club to some trustees, but it should have closed definitively with the sale to an external buyer by the end of the year. An evolution that is now impossible. The clubs, however, prefer to avoid the exclusion of a team from the league in the second round for image reasons and to avoid economic consequences. It would be devastating to see a team forced to rest every day, a situation that immediately transfers the feeling of disorganization. And it would become a problem for the TV rights buyers to go from ten to nine games every weekend.
If the FIGC accepts the Serie A request, Salernitana will finish the championship regularly. Lotito could then try to continue to manage it in Serie B in the event of relegation, but he could not go beyond the end of the 2023-24 championship, the moment by which it will no longer be possible for a single owner to control more than one club in the professional categories. . So also Aurelio De Laurentiis (Napoli) will have to sell Bari and Maurizio Setti (Verona) will have to do it with Mantova. The intertwining of the Salernitana affair is everywhere, as evidenced by the paradox that one of the two Serie A representatives in the Federal Council, called to bring the majority position on the newly promoted, is Lotito who abstained in the Lega assembly to avoid conflicts of interest. . An endless mess.