Lecce president makes a promise to fans

The words of Saverio Sticchi Damiani

Lecce president Saverio Sticchi Damiani commented on the Salentini’s season in a press conference. “In Serie A the only player left from relegation two years earlier was Bleve, we restarted with a total technical renewal that led us to face this season with a totally new group. We have maintained and respected the financial balance, we will close the budget for the first time after eight years in total balance, no losses to be covered,” he stressed. “We have taken risks to do this, sometimes even with unpopular choices, going on unknown players, taking risks on operations that could be an unknown for A. And we achieved two great results, great credit to our coach and his staff, who had the courage to work with so many rookies, to put forward the youngest team in A.

So he made a promise to the Giallorossi fans: “We are now more than ever a healthy company. Financially, the losses of those two years I was telling you will also be absorbed, we have our own assets today with so many owned players. At this moment we also have the possibility and the strength to exercise the right of redemption on those players who have done well, with the understanding that there is counter-redemption.”

“The club is growing, it is structuring itself, it has almost entirely overcome the period of economic-financial difficulties, it continues to spend on a stadium that needs continuous interventions. I feel a pinch of envy seeing that at the San Nicola investments are made with public money, without being polemical but it is a fact. In Bari they have this good fortune, we on the other hand have arrived at 6.5 million in resources from a club that is not even ours,” he commented on the stadium.