Fiorentina patron Rocco Commisso continues to fight for a new sports centre in Florence and points to the need of revenue to get the best players, but vows to keep the stars already in place.
Serie A is currently suspended and the American tycoon insists that Fiorentina will not be ready to start until there are no risks involved.
“Health is important to us, if there are no risks for anyone or very few risks, then we can start,” he told SportItalia. “I’m not sure it can be done, but my players are sure they want to resume.”
Fiorentina patron Rocco Commisso continues to fight for a new sports centre in Florence and points to the need of revenue to get the best players, but vows to keep the stars already in place.
Serie A is currently suspended and the American tycoon insists that Fiorentina will not be ready to start until there are no risks involved.
“Health is important to us, if there are no risks for anyone or very few risks, then we can start,” he told SportItalia. “I’m not sure it can be done, but my players are sure they want to resume.”
Commisso promised to bring glory to Florence when he took over, but the bureaucracy in Italy has put a stop to his rapid development of a new sports centre.
The owner wants to build the best facilities in Italy and fight at the top of Italian football, helping Fiorentina to turn the tide financially.
“We started by buying Fiorentina, we bought the land to make the largest sports centre in Italy where we will all be together. The figures spent on the January market were also important.
“If they will let me build this stadium, it will take three to four years to see the Fiorentina I have in mind. The path to success for Serie A is to have the structures that our fans like.
“It requires revenue to spend the money to get the best players in the world. If we look at the data of the past years of revenue in Europe, the Viola were 21st on the list.
“We have gone down in the last 10 years, when everyone has gone forward.”
Both playmaker Gaetano Castrovilli and star forward Federico Chiesa have been linked with a move away from the club this summer, but Commisso has claimed they are not for sale.
“They can’t touch any of them today,” he said. “The first [Castrovilli] has a long contract and the same goes for Chiesa.
“I love good players and I don’t necessarily have to sell them.”
Players’ Association President Damiano Tommasi slammed Serie A’s proposal of cutting up to a third of wages but Commisso has claimed it would be ‘important for players to accept’ the salary reduction and pointed at Juventus as a ‘good example’.
“Juventus as a big club, has set a good example,” Commisso said. “It would be important for players to accept the salary cut also to safeguard many other employees of the clubs that don’t earn as much as they do.”