Nojah, 4 punkti maha ja lootuse püsimajäämisest võib Parma nüüd tõenäoliselt maha matta.
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Põhjalik ülevaade, mis ja kuidas Parmal perse läks: http://www.theguardian.com/football/...ll-their-worth
näiteks näide sellest, kuidas Itaalia on võimalik tiimiomanikuks saada:
Exactly one week before the next league-mandated pay date in mid-February, Dastraso, without having altered the financial situation of the team, sold Parma to Manenti for €1. Apparently, it was the same price that Dastraso had paid Ghirardi. Meanwhile, Parma had played another 10 matches and won only one of them.
Manenti first met the team at Centro Sportivo. “He promised a lot of things, like millions of euros would be here in a few days,” Lucarelli told me. “We had just had six months of all these promises, that the millions would be here. So this was another time when someone promised a lot. We weren’t impressed.”
Manenti is a shaggily dressed, unshaven middle-aged man from a small town outside Milan. At the time he drove a black Citroën C3. “It is like a Ford Fiesta,” Farnetti said. “It is the car that you use as the second car in your family.”
In the last two years, Manenti had failed in his attempts to buy the Serie B teams Pro Vercelli and Brescia. He ran a business based in Slovenia called the Mapi Group, which allegedly made its money acting as a go-between for business interests. When a reporter from Sky Sport 24 visited its headquarters on the edge of a tiny town on the border of Italy, she found a two-story residential house with a small note taped to the mailbox that read, “Mapi Group”. In his first weeks as owner, Manenti repeated daily to the press the same promise he had given to the team. But no money ever surfaced.
“It is like copy and paste,” Lucarelli said at the February press conference. Earlier that month, to go to Slovenia to “unblock the bank transfers,” Manenti reportedly used money from the little that remained in Parma’s possession. Shortly after he returned, his Citroën was towed for $2,000 in unpaid parking tickets. The car, it turned out, was registered to his father. One reporter discovered that, only a few years earlier, he’d interviewed for a job slicing deli meat at a supermarket – and had been passed over. He was said to have made his “fortune” selling olives and olive oil on eBay. The phrase “bonifico da Manenti” (“Manenti bank transfer”) went viral. One Photoshop creation depicted a skeleton on a park bench. The caption read: “He was waiting for a Manenti bank transfer.”
After more than two weeks of Manenti’s unfulfilled promises, Mayor Pizzarotti set up a meeting with him for 27 February (the day before Donadoni and Lucarelli’s press conference) at Pizzarotti’s office in Piazza Garibaldi. I met the mayor in the sitting room of the stone tower that houses his office, the walls around us covered in paintings, some centuries older than the United States. The mayor is 41, but he looks younger. He was elected in 2012 after the former mayor, Pietro Vignali, resigned following a corruption scandal that left the city nearly $900m in debt. Vignali was later arrested on charges of corruption and misappropriation of public money. I asked Pizzarotti how the meeting with Manenti had gone.
“He didn’t have an answer about the money, about the future of the football team, about the legal question of the tribunal [the club’s bankruptcy hearing that had been scheduled for 19 March],” Pizzarotti said. “The answer was always: ‘No problem. There is money. No problem. I thought I had lost my mind,” Pizzarotti continued. “Because the situation is very serious, and he doesn’t have a serious lawyer or a serious accountant. He says only, ‘No problem. I have the money.’
“Manenti is the poorest man you ever met in Parma,” said Paolo Grossi, the Gazzetta di Parma journalist. “He has absolutely no money, but he can go to the assembly of the league along with [Juventus president Andrea] Agnelli, [Milan CEO Adriano] Galliani, all the presidents, millionaires, club owners, and just sit among them. And that means that there are great holes in the security system of the league.”
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On 18 March, the day before the bankruptcy hearing, Manenti was arrested on the charge of attempted money laundering. He was accused of being part of a criminal group that used “Mafia methods” and included 21 others who were arrested with him. Manenti was identified when the group allegedly tried to transfer nearly $5m – which was taken from fake and stolen credit cards obtained through computer hacking – to him in mid-February. That money was meant to be used to keep Parma afloat. He remains under house arrest as of going to press.
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