The president of the Apulian club during the end-of-year conference: “It will be important to put the club in solid hands. I am available to speak with the institutions. I hope to invest in the market to obtain results. The ranking? I’m not happy”
“Recently I have been talking to two entities that have taken an interest in the club. We are in a phase of dialogue, they are studying Bari in terms of numbers and place. The novelty is that I am dialoguing with entities. My goal is to close these negotiations in 2026.” These are the words of the president of Bari, Luigi De Laurentiis, during the end-of-year press conference at the San Nicola stadium. “It is important – he said with an eye towards the end of 2028 as the end of timeshares in Italian football – to be able to give Bari to solid hands, who can have a plan. Otherwise, as happened with transfers to those who had a lot of money but no planning, it didn’t go well. The risk is all mine, in the interests of the square and Bari”. And again: “There is a confidentiality agreement, we don’t have negotiations with national groups. We have dialogues with foreign entities. The groups propose themselves, they come from abroad, there are deadlines, we get to know each other”.
Entrepreneurial bet
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“Timeshare? When the Bari sports title was handed over to us, there was timeshare. The entrepreneurial challenge was to unblock this situation. The idea – the president of Bari continued – is to find a partner: the intelligent ones ask the owners to manage the world of football, which they don’t know enough about. Our management is a plus, an added value. There will be a possible coexistence, then we will see the rules in 2028: if we get to Serie A, sitting in the stands, we will be happy. It’s the category where Bari deserves to be”.
mayor and ranking
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“A meeting with the mayor and fans? Available to talk to anyone. We always talk to the mayor Vito Leccese and Antonio Decaro (governor of the Puglia region, ed.)”, pointed out De Laurentiis. Who also spoke about the team’s situation in the standings and the relationship with the square: “Now we don’t have enough points for what we did. I’m not happy. Not supporting the team is self-harm. The boys take to the pitch to represent the city”.
future
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“I hope to invest in the market to obtain important results, rekindling hearts and passions. I am the first to want a full stadium. I have been here for eight years and I feel like a citizen of Bari. With this ‘difficult environmentalism’, it would be easy to remain at Filmauro in Rome, but I put my heart and passion into it. I’ll put my face to it” were the last words of Bari’s number one.
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