He climbed Leeds to Premierliga after 16 years, the heroic coach starts talks to buy the renowned Italian team.

Not just Rome, not just American funds. An offer to buy Genoa Calcio comes from an Italian consortium, led by Andrea Radrizzani and Matteo Manfred.

In fact, in these hours, the ANSA teaches from sources of negotiations a purchase proposal for the Enrico Preziosi club was formalised by a consortium whose leader is Gestio Capital, a London-based family office founded by Matteo Manfredi, which also includes Ars Ventures, the sports hold society of Radrizani, the owner of Leeds, who brought the English club trained by Marcel Biel again to Premier Legue after 16 years.

Among the supporters, with part of the minorities, also a US private fund. Informal contacts had already started in recent weeks, with a first check on the club's situation. The officialisation of the shopping goal now gives way to proper care, as well as to an operation that, in followers' goals, aims to reinforce a club with a historical brand, technically and managerially”.

In recent days, with the championship and rescue achieved, Preziosi had expressed his intentions: “I have said this for many years, but this time I think it's really time to step back”, his words.

A availability that will now go into verifying the purchase proposal. Gestio Capital is a London-based family office specialising in managing wealthy private families and recently signed a strategic and financial alliance with Frontis Npl and Pietro Martani, founder of Copernicus and Halldis.

For his part, Radrizzani built his success around the English club taken over by Celino after the active partnership in 2017, and around Eleven Sports, an international sports content network. Now, together with financial investors, the goal is Genoa.