In one year, many things - not to say too many - have changed in Olbia. Meanwhile, ownership and president have changed, with the Gallura club passing into the hands of SwissPro with 70 percent of the membership shares and now chaired by Guido Surace.
And then - not a detail - the category changed, with the whites destined for Serie D after relegation in April. Thus, if last year at this time the then president Alessandro Marino was busy on the double front of the registration in the Serie C championship, for the eighth season in a row, and the choice of the coach after the divorce from Roberto Occhiuzzi , today the new ownership is working to "restructure an important debt", to paraphrase Benno Räber, one of the members of the board of directors of Olbia Calcio owned by SwissPro, and to prepare the request for repechage, in the knowledge that Serie D would slow down the plans of greatness of Swiss investors and their partners.
The debt, inherited from the previous management - the owners did not want to reveal the amount, but the figure would be between 3 and 4 million euros - is being negotiated with the creditors. And it is the only certainty, because for the rest, from the request for repechage in Serie C to the search for a coach, linked to a sporting director about whom nothing is known at the moment, with Tomaso Tatti expiring in June and the potential replacement Francesco Filucchi reluctant to sign without certainties, very little is known. Except that Olbia would be working on it. Meanwhile, the first important deadline of June 4th looms on the horizon, the date by which the salaries of members for the months of March, April and May must be paid.
Finally, curiosity: exactly one year ago, Marino put Olbia up for sale, expressing his willingness to «listen to proposals for the acquisition of the club» (his words) and announcing the existence of «several development projects for the club, from the new stage at the entry of new members". The rest is the story of the arrival of SwissPro in November and Marino's resignation from the presidency, which arrived 4 months later, with debts to be paid and an uncertain future, at a corporate and technical project level. A future that the silence of the new ownership does not help to clarify.
