Urbano Cairo is listening to possible proposals for the sale of Torino. ‘Corriere dello Sport’ writes it: tired of being pointed out as the possible tyrant who is holding the Granata club hostage, the owner of RCS has held talks with the Red Bull galaxy in recent weeks and is now waiting with interest for possible proposals from the Arab world . In fact, rumors are rife in Riyadh about a possible Arab interest in purchasing the club. There are no negotiations yet but, according to what is filtered, the Saudi establishment is studying the grenade file and evaluating the feasibility of the operation.
After the rumors gathered in the morning, confirmation from the person concerned also arrived. For the first time, in fact, Urbano Cairo has admitted that he could sell Torino. Speaking during the sixth edition of the ‘Sport Talk Industry’, the president of the Granata club expressed himself as follows on his presidency: “I’ve been at Torino for 19 years and I won’t stay for life, sooner or later I’ll move on. However, I hope that when I sell the Bull I will sell it to someone richer than me who can have those 20-30 million euros more… When someone richer arrives I will step aside, I don’t want to stay at Turin for life. The twenty-year-olds end up, it goes for me too. But we shouldn’t generalize: the Elliott fund has certainly done well at Milan, Commisso is also doing well in Florence Good work, in football it is not enough to have a lot of money to get results. Italian football has attracted foreign ownership because the prices of Italian clubs are very competitive. Sometimes there are tensions linked to personal relationships in the world of football greater unity of intent and clear strategies that involve the entire movement.
On his adventure in Turin: “I took over the club 19 years ago because I was called by the Mayor of the city. Torino was going bankrupt and he was worried about the situation. I responded to the call because I had a mother who was a huge Torino fan who pushed me, I was aware of the problems and pitfalls of football. We have immediately did very well, then ups and downs, now we have been in Serie A permanently for 12-13 years. We can always do better, then Atalanta created a precedent and everyone says: ‘Why Torino can’t he get what Atalanta is getting?’ I was close to Gasperini, when Ventura was about to leave I called him but he still had a contract with Genoa and they didn’t release him.