Virtus, Luca Baraldi denies rumors

The words of Luca Baraldi

Virtus Bologna CEO Luca Baraldi spoke to Radio Nettuno Bologna for the first time ahead of the new season. "We have set up this year a team compatible with our ideas of basketball. This will be a roster that will give a lot of satisfaction to fans and investors».

"Shengelia at Virtus has always given 200% and heà will do so in the future as well. Those who question him do not know him and us. It wasnè t an economic issue, if Virtus had wanted to speculate on Shengelia they would have cashed a big buyout that we received in terms of proposal and we would have let Shengelia go. But we believe he should be one of the leaders of our project»

"We have met with the top leadership of EuroLeague always receiving messages of esteem. We made commitments, we fulfilled them, including Financial Fair Play. To say that Zanetti is divesting, to say that Zanetti doesn’t want any more;: are nastiness. Zanetti è at the head of this company at the shareholder level, he had the ability to attract a new partner like Gherardi, all fans should be proud of that. We had had our positioning in the EuroLeague, who was taking a risk was Valencia. Valencia belongs to the Mercadona brothers who are four times the’Esselunga, turnover 30 million euros. The work of this company’ è has been rewarded for seriousness’ and solidity’.

"In this companyà we pay salaries one day earlier, and never one day later. We have 140 business partners, we will soon introduce new jersey sponsors, we are one of the four teams in Europe with two teams in the EuroLeague, we have a staff of no more than 30 years old. I è was sorry, and I say this today also with pride, to see the mortification of the staff when we all seemed to have pieces of our butts. This è a society è that I proudly feel I represent".