Olbia did not play last weekend, with the match against Rimini postponed to 6 December because the Gallura team had players called up to the national team. But it is still a period of great news at a corporate level, with the passage of 70% to the Swiss group SwissPro which presented itself at a press conference last week.
«If we want to aspire to Serie B, infrastructural development must go hand in hand with the sporting objective: what we want to do with these new partners», points out president Alessandro Marino during “L'Informatore Sportivo” on Radiolina, answering Lorenzo's questions Piras and Ilenia Giagnoni. «There are certainly elements of continuity and discontinuity. It is not a detail that I am no longer the majority shareholder, which is the one who actually has the management, but there is a strong link between the project carried out in recent years by me and my partners and great trust for let us manage the club also by minority shareholders." There is already a first objective for the new group and the confirmed president: «I want to open a new part of the project together with them, more ambitious for example from the point of view of the infrastructures which I had not particularly developed. It is the element that can give the club a future and a different dimension: the stadium we now have available is certainly not up to par for higher categories, while a more modern structure could be the turning point for Olbia and have different goals from the current ones."
The increase. Among the immediate prospects of the new group at the head of Olbia is the increase in revenues. Marino points out how the advantages given by visibility not only at a regional level can help: «Being able to have international brands available as sponsors is a first step towards increasing them, with this group it will be possible», he states. «We then have an average of 30,000 spectators per match for each live broadcast on Sky, very interesting numbers and higher than the previous platforms we used, it shows how it is a winning choice». With the corporate change the link with Cagliari has not changed, also due to the direct friendship between Tommaso Giulini and Marino himself: «The partnership will continue as long as there are common interests. There isn't a written contract between me and him, but here we try to develop the young players in a certain way and this type of path may suit Cagliari. Just as it may be convenient for us, having at our disposal an interesting pool of players such as that of the Cagliari youth sector." On the market and the objectives Marino closes decisively: «We cannot be satisfied with saving ourselves on the last day. It could also be that the market brings us opportunities, we are also looking in Serie B where there is a wealth of talent."
