Radrizanni

[whitestomper45]

Checking on how Sampdoria are doing, see their bottom of the equivalent of Championship, and noticed he’s no longer Chairman/Owner! Anyone know what happened there?

[Monaco_Totty]

Chef at work showed me this below article.
In order to save the club which in May 2023 was in real danger of being expelled from the league & ceasing to exist Gestio Capital & Aser Holding intervened in the person of owners Matteo Manfredi & Andrea Radrizzani who, through their new company Blucerchiati srl. partially rescheduled their debts & underwrote a bond convertible into shares for a maximum value of €30 million (which allowed Massimo Ferrero's Sport Spettacolo Holding to acquire a majority stake in the club), allowing Sampdoria's board to recapitalise and register the team for the 2023-2024 Serie B season.

In August 2023, Blucerchiati (the parent company) was transformed into a joint stock company & fully acquired by Gestio Capital.

At the same time, the Board of Directors was renewed, with Marco Lanna becoming Chairman and Manfredi joining the Board of Directors.

Gestio Capital ? https://www.gestiocapital.com/about-us/team/
Basically they work with a strict selection of elite-entrepreneurs & UHNWI to ensure their financial matters are looked after by highly specialized professionals.
They are known to have a stringent selective process that allows them to exploit synergies amongst partners & families.

So Radz is in the set up having his 'financial matters' cared for apparently via his wheeling/dealings as a UHNWI.

Ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNWI) are people with a net worth of at least $30 million.

They share their ground with Genoa 50/50 now too after reaching an agreement.

Reading today that violent clashes between rival fans after Genoa derby results in 26 police officers injured | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/genoa-sam...2ee651d5e0f033

[whitestomper45]

Thanks Totty, so looks like AR is not such a key player over there and the team still in lower regions of the Serie B... think they have played in the Luigi Ferraris Stadium since the 1940s... yes some serious scrapping in the derby.

[Monaco_Totty]

No prob WS👍

With Leeds announcing their plans to increase the capacity of ER from 37,645 to around 53,000 making our famous home the 7th biggest ground in the country, I'm just reading in the Leeds Evening Post that Simon Jordan ex-Palace owner declaring that Leeds must now “get themselves together” to get back up out of the Championship and praised the work of former chairman Radrizzani for initially taking the Whites back to the Premier League in 2020, albeit for a stay that was shortlived. Radrizzani shared Jordan’s thoughts in a post on social media platform X.

Jordan said of Leeds: “They've got to get themselves together on the field. They spent a long time out of the Premier League, a few years back in it and they are back out of it again.

"It's a brilliant football club, whenever I went up, the most intimidating environment was Elland Road. Now you’ve got Leeds United building a 53,000 all seater stadium inside the Championship.

“Of course they’re building if for the future, but it shows you the scale of that football club, it shows you the scale of opportunity.

“It is one of those remarkable football clubs. I mean Radrizzani was the catalyst and a lightning rod, wasn’t the most affable of fellas. But notwithstanding that he was an achievement-based individual that took Leeds from the doldrums of many, many years outside the Premier League, to back in the Premier League and made them for one period of time everyone’s second favourite team.

"You've now got a club that is back and needs to be back in the Premier League and is building a 53,000 all stadium to be. That's the seventh biggest stadium in the country - it tells you where they are, where they should be and eventually probably where they will be.”

Asked what it was that made clubs like Leeds and Villa stand out, Jordan declared: "They are statuesque, they are clubs with stature. Their fans are always brilliant, the size and scale of their stadiums is impressive in terms of you went to Vila you know you were in a proper football ground.

The legacy of the heritage of these football clubs, you cannot take that out of your mind's eye. People say dirty Leeds but the Don Revie period, where they were a significant football club both in European and English football. You go the same with Villa.

"These are big, big football clubs, you know you are in a football stadium when you go and see Aston Villa and Leeds United play."You know that you are turning up to one of the football stadiums that is representative of good and big things of English football. Leeds United and Aston Villa are absolutely in that bracket.”

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co....l/leeds-united

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Good under the cosh episode recently with Nigel Martyn - talks about the game in Turkey and also how it ended for him with us.

[whitestomper45]

No prob WS��

With Leeds announcing their plans to increase the capacity of ER from 37,645 to around 53,000 making our famous home the 7th biggest ground in the country, I'm just reading in the Leeds Evening Post that Simon Jordan ex-Palace owner declaring that Leeds must now “get themselves together” to get back up out of the Championship and praised the work of former chairman Radrizzani for initially taking the Whites back to the Premier League in 2020, albeit for a stay that was shortlived. Radrizzani shared Jordan’s thoughts in a post on social media platform X.

Jordan said of Leeds: “They've got to get themselves together on the field. They spent a long time out of the Premier League, a few years back in it and they are back out of it again.

"It's a brilliant football club, whenever I went up, the most intimidating environment was Elland Road. Now you’ve got Leeds United building a 53,000 all seater stadium inside the Championship.

“Of course they’re building if for the future, but it shows you the scale of that football club, it shows you the scale of opportunity.

“It is one of those remarkable football clubs. I mean Radrizzani was the catalyst and a lightning rod, wasn’t the most affable of fellas. But notwithstanding that he was an achievement-based individual that took Leeds from the doldrums of many, many years outside the Premier League, to back in the Premier League and made them for one period of time everyone’s second favourite team.

"You've now got a club that is back and needs to be back in the Premier League and is building a 53,000 all stadium to be. That's the seventh biggest stadium in the country - it tells you where they are, where they should be and eventually probably where they will be.”

Asked what it was that made clubs like Leeds and Villa stand out, Jordan declared: "They are statuesque, they are clubs with stature. Their fans are always brilliant, the size and scale of their stadiums is impressive in terms of you went to Vila you know you were in a proper football ground.

The legacy of the heritage of these football clubs, you cannot take that out of your mind's eye. People say dirty Leeds but the Don Revie period, where they were a significant football club both in European and English football. You go the same with Villa.

"These are big, big football clubs, you know you are in a football stadium when you go and see Aston Villa and Leeds United play."You know that you are turning up to one of the football stadiums that is representative of good and big things of English football. Leeds United and Aston Villa are absolutely in that bracket.”

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co....l/leeds-united

On Talksport, Jordan always talks well about Leeds, reinforces what we all know about the clubs stature and that the goal is promotion more than performance, though they go in someway together. We cannot afford (or keep) the best players, we just need honest players who can handle the pressure of playing for LUFC week in week out. I know I've called out Firpo at times, but under DF he does look like he's trying.. WALL

[WTF11]

On Talksport, Jordan always talks well about Leeds, reinforces what we all know about the clubs stature and that the goal is promotion more than performance, though they go in someway together. We cannot afford (or keep) the best players, we just need honest players who can handle the pressure of playing for LUFC week in week out. I know I've called out Firpo at times, but under DF he does look like he's trying.. WALL

What a f00king hypocrite you really are.....you say "under Farke he (Firpo) is trying" and yet on the Beating the Park the bus thread you are happy to say "How Farke has managed so many clean sheets with Firpo in defence is outstanding.". I may not be popular with you or anybody else, but I don't badmouth without cause and if I do, until PROVEN wrong i'll stick with what I say, unlike some who seem more keen on currying favour with some other posters than being true to their views.

[WTF11]

And as for Radrizzani, may that hypocrite burn in hell for the whole of purgatory!

Bates may have been a crook, but we knew he was,, Radrizzani dressed himself in the emperors clothes and some of us bought the mirage, unfortunately

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Says the arch hypocrite and king numpty - no one cares what you think anymore - you just irritate people so maybe we should call you thrush

[whitestomper45]

What a f00king hypocrite you really are.....you say "under Farke he (Firpo) is trying" and yet on the Beating the Park the bus thread you are happy to say "How Farke has managed so many clean sheets with Firpo in defence is outstanding.". I may not be popular with you or anybody else, but I don't badmouth without cause and if I do, until PROVEN wrong i'll stick with what I say, unlike some who seem more keen on currying favour with some other posters than being true to their views.

What are you on about.... Firpo is trying, but he's still not reliable as a defender, the minimum we ask of players is to look like they've trying, but I don't think he is a good defender.. the fact DF can work with such a player and get the defensive results achieved is outstanding in my opinion... pray tell where the hypocrisy is