Basket rumors

Virtus Bologna CEO Luca Baraldi announces on TRC the closure of the women’s first team and talks about plans for the men.

ON GIVING UP THE WOMEN’S TEAM

“A painful, suffered and meditated choice, but one that will prove to be a winner. We will not participate in the women’s Serie A, part of these resources will be directed to the youth sectors, both men’s and women’s. We will also give a structure to the women’s youth sector’.

ON THE EUROLEAGUE WILD CARD

“It was an excellent conquest that was not taken for granted, and Valencia, which is an excellent club with a great sports hall, was not taken”.

ON THE BUDGET

“An adequate budget to support a competitive team at least like this year. We are evaluating some renewals, others already have contracts, we are studying new arrivals, Ronci and Banchi are working on it’.

ON TOKO SHENGELIA

“Shengelia’s contract has but exit options, we will look for the economic agreement to renew him’.

Virtus Bologna is considering Jordan Loyd as a possible reinforcement for next season. Loyd, a guard coming out of Monaco, is a target Virtus had already considered in the past.

The operation could be cheaper than other players like Valencia’s Chris Jones, whose salary and buyout are particularly onerous. Loyd’s arrival will also depend on the decisions regarding Toko Shengelia’s contract and other players currently in the balance.

Source: Corriere di Bologna

Toko Shengelia still at the centre of Virtus Bologna’s market. The Corriere dello Sport writes about it today, not excluding the Georgian forward’s departure.

Panathinaikos and Real Madrid are interested. For Vu, the hypothesis of depriving themselves of the player, but also of a two million euro per season contract, in order to have more salary space to build the new roster.

Luca Muleo concludes his analysis as follows: ‘In short, he and the club will have to talk to each other to clarify if there is the will to try to win together, where winning means reaching the goals of the beginning of the season and this time with an extra step, playoffs on one side and the Scudetto on the other’.