Andrea Radrizzani continues to be keen to invest in an Italian football club, with the Leeds United owner feeling there’s great room for growth in the country.
Earlier this year there were reports he was working to try and buy Salernitana from Claudio Lotito. Given that Lotito also owns Lazio, Italian rules meant that when his other club were promoted to Serie A he had to look to sell one of them.
That still hasn’t happened, and if the situation isn’t resolved it could see Salernitana relegated from the top flight.
In a recent interview with the Italian media, Radrizzani confirmed he’d made efforts to buy the club: “I actually tried. Salernitana was at the centre of my summer thoughts. I made a purchase offer. I never even got an answer; not even a “No, thank you”. This is the bad of the country. Then there are clubs with too high levels of debt, so it becomes impossible to take an interest in order to buy them and bring them back to a valid economic and sporting level. The situation with Leeds was different. I bought it for 100 million and now it’s worth 400, and it is in the Premier League.”
Now there’s another club said to be on his radar, and that’s Pescara, who were relegated from Serie B last season. Such a purchase would clearly be a long term plan, with the dream of getting the club into the top flight.
Italian journalist Luca Cilli explained: “The president of Leeds, Andrea Radrizzani, has shown interest in Pescara. Initial contacts began with the president of the Abruzzo club Daniele Sebastiani, who has been working for some time for the sale of the company.”
PescaraSport24 report that a meeting has already been held between the club’s current owners and representatives of a fund which has Radrizzani at the head. Given the level Pescara are currently at, it’s unlikely this deal would bring any player-moves, similar to what happens with Pozzo owned Watford and Udinese, with Leeds United.
