Parma captain Alessandro Lucarelli reveals players have given up 75 per cent of their wages, and hopes a buyer can be found.
The Ducali are bankrupt and relegated, but can play in Serie B next season if a buyer can be found who will clear their sporting debt.
That debt has been reduced significantly, as it included player wages, a huge proportion of which the squad has surrendered.
“We have given up 75 per cent of what we are entitled to,” Lucarelli revealed in an interview with Radio Olympia.
Parma captain Alessandro Lucarelli reveals players have given up 75 per cent of their wages, and hopes a buyer can be found.
The Ducali are bankrupt and relegated, but can play in Serie B next season if a buyer can be found who will clear their sporting debt.
That debt has been reduced significantly, as it included player wages, a huge proportion of which the squad has surrendered.
“We have given up 75 per cent of what we are entitled to,” Lucarelli revealed in an interview with Radio Olympia.
“We’d do even more, because the alternative is for the club to fail and then we don’t get anything.
“We Parma players have never lost our smile, real problems are other things, we comfort each other.
“We’re waiting, the last two auctions [of the club] haven’t brought positive news, next week there’s another auction, and then the last on May 28.
“Hopefully someone can save football in Parma, the administrators are trying to bring the debt down.
“Everything that has happened has brought us closer to the fans, even now people are coming to the stadium to support us in matches which mean nothing.
“In a moral sense, we’ve won, we have the satisfaction of having the fans behind us, and we’ll remember that for a long time.”
Lucarelli also reflected on how the club came to be in this situation, and says the players knew nothing of the problems until last summer.
“We were paid until the UEFA licence wasn’t granted, then the problems came to the surface.
“The club had bitten off more than it could chew, and certain mistakes were ignored.
“The President failed to put any money in for the umpteenth time, and then some very dodgy characters came in.
“Too many bad choices and not enough money put Parma in this state.”