Relegation? A perfect suicide. The target? Do not go back immediately and necessarily, but completely re-establish the team, keeping a few players starting with Deiola, "who could be the next captain".

Word of the Cagliari Calcio director Stefano Capozucca , who spoke with the dg Mario Passetti in the first press conference since the ruinous crash in Serie B. Indeed, the announcement between the lines of an inevitable downsizing given the change in category, also to reduce a salary that was the ninth this year among the Serie A teams.

EXCUSES

"We all feel guilty for what happened, we must apologize to everyone because I feel guilty of having betrayed", begins Capozucca. " I always said that we would be saved, I was convinced because Cagliari had absolutely no team to go to. B. The Cagliari world is wounded and we must apologize ”.

"GIULINI THE LESS RESPONSIBLE"

The faults? “Of all, there are many factors, starting with the company. I am also responsible because I have made choices that I now regret. Giulini is the scapegoat, but he is less guilty than many others , me or my colleagues who were there before and allowed wrong purchases. We are to blame, who led the team and the players. The president tried to raise the bar with important purchases and praised by all - Simeone, Rog, Nandez -, then these players failed but good faith has always existed ".

THE "PERFECT SUICIDE"

Capozucca defines himself still in shock for the relegation: "It was a perfect suicide , knowing that a team loses 3-0 at half-time and not being able to score a goal to a team that conceded goals from 26 games".

MAZZARRI AND SIMPLE

“Mazzarri is a cause of suffering, it was not my choice but I defended him and I would do it again. If things hadn't precipitated he would have stayed until the end. I thought that from his experience he might be the right man to lead us to salvation . Maybe I was wrong, indeed certainly ".

There was no Capozucca when it was decided to sack the coach of last year's miracle, Leonardo Semplici . But he defends the leadership he also defends that choice. “He played three games, two at home against direct competitors: equal with Spezia, 14 had come to Cagliari with three goalkeepers, 4 goals scored in Milan and a defeat against Genoa. The conditions were not the best ".

Only thanks to Agostini, because "he had the courage to play three difficult games, to have tried to lend a hand in every way".

THE FUTURE

Do you want to go back to A immediately? No. The goal is “ to refound, to send away as many people as possible , the scar of this absurd relegation leaves something and we must change as much as possible. This is why I don't want to proclaim and set myself goals ".

The new coach “must marry a project that is not like the one of seven years ago, a right person who knows he is arriving in a depressed environment, he too must feel a bit relegated. Wednesday or Thursday we will announce the name ”.

STARTING FROM DEIOLA

In short, a complete re-foundation, starting from some players. “From Deiola , his desperation at the end of the game hit me. He has a Sardinian heart, he may not have the quality of a champion but he has the feeling to play in a team that wants to rise again, he could be the new captain ". Other names: " Carboni I would keep it for life, I love it, then there is Altare ".

It is obvious, explains Capozucca, "that we will not be able to send away 25 players, I would like to keep 5 or 6, but my intention is to change a lot and the president is with me in this ". On the other hand, he reveals, "after the relegation I only received text messages from two players, I don't reveal which ones, and that says a lot". Help will come from the spring, "some players will certainly enter the first team next year".

THE GOODBYE OF JOAO PEDRO

The farewell of Joao Pedro seems inevitable: "He has only one year on his contract, he is someone who has a market, I don't see how he can play in B. It is right that he continues his path".

But when they talk to him about a sort of downsizing that transpires from his words Capozucca disagrees: “No downsizing, but I don't make any proclamations. I know that it is much more difficult to get from B than to save yourself from A ”.

NAINGGOLAN

Finally , the Nainggolan chapter and the attacks that the same midfielder launched against the club for the treatment received last summer and the failure to return to Sardinia.

“I am personally fond of him, but there are some inaccuracies that need to be clarified. He accused the president of not keeping his word, but he never accepted Giulini's proposal because he was offered much more and our offer was much less than his request ".

PASSETTI

Even the general manager apologizes, and he who is from Cagliari feels "an extra weight", he feels he "has not met the expectations of an entire population".

In recent years “we have tried to raise the bar and it is right, but we have made the wrong way, and therefore whoever was next to the president was wrong, did not give the right advice. Including me ".

On Citic's offer : “ A holding that does not even have a website , there has never been anything. If a member arrives who wants to participate to bring value to Cagliari, on the Atalanta model to be clear, it is clear that everything is evaluated. But so far there has been nothing ”.

The treasury in the event of relegation? “It does not exist, it is a parachute that does not have the value we are talking about, also because relegation is devastating economic damage. All revenues drop and some even go to zero, starting with TV rights ".

Finally , the stadium chapter: "We are in line with the times , we must close and file the final project by June 30".

(Unioneonline / L)

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