Lightning press conference of Messina’s players Davide Petrucci and Marco Crimi, flanked by the DS Domenico Rome and by the technician Simone Banchieri. After a brief introduction of Rome, the word passed to the captain of the Giallorossi training, who intervened on the failure to pay the contributions by the Aad Invest Group, new majority members of the ACR Messina: “We were the first to be affected and embittered by this news we didn’t expect it in the first place. I think the commitment has been seen never came outor”
So the word passes to Marco Crimi: “Because we identified ourselves in all the fans, because everyone, as I said before, we all fell asleep with this thought and we all woke up with the same. So we said let’s talk immediately, let’s clarify this thing immediately, because it is useless to have useless chat. Let’s talk immediately, let’s make people understand and also give answers to our fans, because as we have the questions, they also have it, and it is right to give answers.
So what we want to make it clear is that everything we are doing is also to give clarity, the team, the staff, everything. We just ask for this, to give clarity to our fans too“.”
And again answering the question about the real guarantees proposed by the Giallorossi society: “From our point of view we have already talked about it, regardless of everything, our goal is to continue working to save us, point. Then everything they will do will all things will have to give them into account. We rightly hope to have all the guarantees. There was talk of families and so on, there are people who do not take money because they come from other teams, who have not been paid for six months, they are here and they say I don’t want to go home, I want to be here because we have to save ourselves. We are talking about a group of extraordinary boys, People who said but if we make a bank transfer we are unable to pay by midnight, last night. We are talking about a group of boys who said we wouldn’t have the penalty. We have not thought of all of us, if we had known it before perhaps with the right times. To make you understand the group as it is, people who have arrived for less than a month, people who still have not even done a year, so we are talking about guys who have fallen in love with this city, of this fans, even in a very short time . Why? Because they have seen that what it can give can still give more, that I know, I saw it with my eyes. So what we can guarantee is the commitment, only this. The rest we also wait for a clue. And I admit penalties that unfortunately will come, we can say that in any case the margins of salvation remain even if they are significantly reduced. In short, it is a team that can be saved. This is a message only addressed to the fans, not to the company.
So the Giallorossi coach Banchieri: “I spoke with the team this morning, I think I reflect everything we have said so far, by the director and all the people who are close to us, that the alibis are losers. So even if they penalize us, and clearly not because of us, we will spine the blood and the soul to save ourselves to the last second, until mathematics give us the opportunity. We just want to be able to play it to give me the same with everyone, this we ask. But we believe it beyond what can be federal implications that do not depend on us. So today to speak here about any penalties, of what will happen to Turris and Taranto, of what it will be, this is not the right classroom, this is not the day. We will do everything to save ourselves on the field, but in this we need our fans and we reiterate it in great voice. Because we have seen, I’m already winning at home with Latina, how much the fans pushed to win that game. If they asked me, after Vincenzo’s goal, as the game ended, I would have told everyone in unison, we win. Don’t even look at how it ends up, because it was perceived, the stadium area was perceived that we would have won that game there. This is thanks to our fans, thanks to the environment we have together, if not I don’t know if we would have won that game. So we want this for all these finals that we face. We just want to think about this. We are also here to say that we from this afternoon our mental energies will be only aimed at football, not to all these bureaucratic things“.
And still Petrucci added: “We cannot make struggles on the pitch, steps forward and then see us removing points in this way because for me it is madness, for us it is madness “.
Marco Crimi then reiterated: “Davide is the thought of the whole team, of all the staff I am sure that like us, who yesterday we slept very little, even many fans and all of you probably fell asleep with this thought and these thoughts in theory should not be there for Work well, stay as concentrated as possible on what our duties are then. What we mean precisely is that, as Davide already said, I repeat, We are here to continue what we are carrying out from those from the beginning of the season, some for just over a month. We promise how we are making the utmost commitment to date, what we have said to us in the locker room is just this, we will never bring anything back, we will put everything on the field. We have made some requests that are precisely those of a simple contribution that is that to make us go on in peace, what normal companies in theory must achieve “.
Then it was the turn of Mister Banchieri: “We are sure that we will continue on our way and that this thing must not be an alibi, indeed it must be only a strong point to make us go on the strongest and most bad before. I add what we then said this morning and what our boys have just said, the director: we will not give up on an inch, what the team does, what all the guys do since I I arrived here and we want to continue doing this we want to be placed only in the condition by the club that respects the peremptory terms because for us you saw how difficult it was tiring to do points and Give points to the other teams for things that exulate the fields, sorry to all of us. The city of Messina, the Messina fans deserves a lot and therefore we ask the whole fans to stay close to us, especially at the moment, because the whole team is compact and we just told you what we asked the club. So this is clear: For us our fans are truly the twelfth man in the field and this is not a square, it is a fact because playing here, training here is totally different than in all the other clubs And so we need them. Today more than ever. Today more than ever because this thing here, as Marco and Davide have just said, has yet to further strengthen us. But we expect, as I just said, that The company in a short time does the things he has to do, those of regulationshere, those you have written since last night and that all our families, to all of us, have started to worry. And I assure you that it is not for an economic factor, but it started to worry about a factor of points, because we want to play it with everyone as we have always done. And this … we request it loudly all together, together with the team, together with the director because it is then a thought shared by all of us “.
To close Domenico Rome: “We would like to clarity by this new society, tell us things as they are, if they want, the power, intention the strength to carry on this project in which we believe in a total way, they must demonstrate it in the short term, if not that They go out and if those who believe like us in what we are doing will give us a hand to fight “.