Posts Tagged ‘Lotito’

Contrary to what I was expecting from the like of Claudio Lotito, the last hourse of transfer market were relatively quiet for Lazio. Despite the expected departures on loan of Baronio (Brescia) and Stendardo (Lecce), there were no other movements at all.

Despite the fact that Lotito tried to offload at all costs “frozen” Simone Inzaghi and Massimo Mutarelli, it appears he failed in doing so, because like he said: “We had agreed to sell certain players but some deals didn`t go through because some people didn`t live up to their promises”.

In saying so, I believe he refers to Torino who had just but signed Mutarelli and probably withdrew in the last moments from the deal, thus living Lotito no time to seek other destinations for the player. The same should have occured with Inzaghi, Firmani, Quadri at least.

On the other news, Delio Rossi gave his players 3 days off after the win against Cagliari. Training will resume tomorrow (Wed) but with almost an entire team off due to international duties, Carrizo, Lichtsteiner, Pandev, Rozenhal and Radu.

While, Rocchi, De Silvestri, Firmani, Dabo, Meghni are injured and are still ongoing therapies i.e. cannot participate in the training.

So much for this one. Hope to have more to talk about in the coming days.

It is unfortunate that I will start this blog with a relatively bad occurrence that is ongoing with one of our most valuable player in the recent years: Cristian Ledesma.

In case you are unfamiliar with the story, it goes as follows: Ledesma wanted a review of his contract and set a deadline until 12 July for president Lotito to start negotiating new contract terms. Ledesma has every reason to ask for a pay rise and it appears Lotito was willing to do that. However, the 12th July came and past and no negations took place. Lotito justifies that since the player has a contract with Lazio until 2011, there was no rush for new negotiations as he had other, more urgent matters for the club, with which I totally agree. Now that Lotito has passed those issues and is willing to sit at the table, Ledesma says that he is not ready to discuss new terms and that next season will call Article 17 and move from Lazio.

Now even though I often disagree with Lotito, in this case I am totally by his side. Ledesma is already under contract and should have understood that Lazio was understaffed (because of Sabatini`s departure) and that Lotito was working alone to bring the needed reinforcements as well as departures and that the deadline is August 31st. Now why would you set deadlines to your club when you are tied to it for the next 3 seasons and when you already know that there is plenty of time ahead when you can discuss the issue.

Now that he heard Ledesma`s statement, Lotito, being a character as he is, immediately stated that the player may leave if he wants to and the club will find a replacement for him.

I really hope they manage to find a solution ASAP as Ledesma is the most important players in the schemes used by Delio Rossi.