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Multiple reports in Italy claim a group of Italian businessmen, including Leeds United owner Andrea Radrizzani, have made an offer to purchase Genoa from Enrico Preziosi.
Vincenzo Italiano and Rolando Maran are the two favourites to lead Genoa next season, as Davide Nicola won’t be kept on.
Daniele Faggiano is the new director of sport at Genoa, just hours after leaving Parma by mutual consent.
Another season, another flurry of coaching and personnel changes, another last-gasp avoidance of relegation, writes Lee Bushe.
Genoa have officially parted company with director of sport Francesco Marroccu after just nine months, suggesting another revolution at the club.
President Gabriele Gravina said the FIGC is ‘concerned’ ahead of Serie A 2020-21 and doesn’t think fans will be back in stadiums on September 19.
Genoa could part ways with coach Davide Nicola and sporting director Francesco Marroccu, as Parma director Daniele Faggiano has been linked with a move to the Marassi.
Official: Serie A 2020-21 starts on September 19, ending on May 23, 2021.
Inter and Atalanta have only one player each in Opta’s best XI for the 2019-20 Serie A season, as Cristiano Ronaldo and Ciro Immobile star in attack with Papu Gomez and Paulo Dybala.
Inter defender Stefan de Vrij will miss the first match of 2020-21, as the Disciplinary Commission announced the verdict after Serie A Week 38.
It was the longest Serie A season, stalled and restarted amid a pandemic, but provided some of the normality Giancarlo Rinaldi was craving.
Genoa President Enrico Preziosi couldn’t confirm coach Davide Nicola’s future at Marassi, as he reiterated his wish to sell the Rossoblu.
There were emotional scenes at Marassi, as Genoa got the victory they needed over Verona to ensure Serie A survival, despite tempers flaring with three red cards.
Fabio Liverani said Lecce ‘can be proud we played attacking football everywhere and never went defensive,’ so he could stay even after relegation.
Davide Nicola maintains Genoa ‘deserved to secure our Serie A safety a little earlier’ than the final round, but ‘it was like saving ourselves twice.’
Genoa goalkeeper Mattia Perin insists they fully deserve to stay in Serie A. ‘We won all the head-to-head games and earned 28 points with’ coach Davide Nicola.
Lecce needed a victory and for Genoa to not beat Verona, but neither of those things happened and they go down into Serie B with a typical seven-goal thriller.
Genoa got the result they needed to secure safety and send Lecce into Serie B, even though they ended the 3-0 win over Verona down to nine men.
Join us for all the build-up and action as it happens from today’s final five Serie A games, including SPAL-Fiorentina, Bologna-Torino and with relegation decided in Genoa-Verona and Lecce-Parma.
Check all the official line-ups for this evening’s Serie A games, as relegation is decided with Genoa-Verona, Lecce-Parma, Sassuolo-Udinese and Bologna-Torino.
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