Sampdoria, we start from Giampaolo, but the company’s future remains a puzzle

Today the tampons, as required by the protocol. Tomorrow functional tests in the field and, on Saturday, departure for the Ponte di Legno retreat. Marco Giampaolo’s Sampdoria, the only real certainty in view of the next championship, restarts and sails on sight, always forced to deal with the uncertainty for the corporate future, which inevitably also conditions the incoming market. To date, the list of players called up is thirty players, with seven young players and as many forwards, waiting for the offensive department to be reduced (Bonazzoli, La Gumina and Torregrossa the first who could leave) and a definitive list of players for the withdrawal that the technician will draw up only on Friday evening. Bereszynski, Colley, Damsgaard, Murillo, Rincon and Thorsby will still join their teammates later on.

THE POSSIBLE SCENARIOS

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As is well known, today the company must operate on the market respecting the strict limits imposed by self-financing, lacking the conditions (and liquidity) to aim for particularly expensive operations. In summary, first you will have to sell, thinking only afterwards of reinforcing. This is why it becomes essential to find a new buyer quickly (before the end of the market). To date, five subjects have come forward with the recently appointed advisor and the Venetian trustee with different timescales and guarantees to obtain information on the economic status of the club. The only name that has come out so far is that of an American fund (Cerberus) that could join forces with a British company (Redstone) to formulate a binding offer. Which, it should be reiterated, has not been there up to now. Among other things, the first of the two subjects eight years ago had tried to get his hands on the Valencia, in an operation that was not successful and which in Spain did not leave good memories in those who followed it at the time. In any case, the rules in this sense to get to Sampdoria are very strict. It remains to be understood now what the times could be, but the commitment of those who are working for this result is to possibly close by August 15th, so as to guarantee a sufficient time window to refine the entry market in the last two weeks of the summer session.