I love Spalleti - the man is abosolute class.
Anyway here is a food for thought though:
I read in FT in relation to Rossi's Telecom Italia appointment, which described him as.....(you won't believe this)
a respected troubleshooter with reputation for indepence.
And this is a bone for you conspiracy theorists:
Tronchetti, a former chairman of Telecom Italia, is also a major shareholder of the company. The interesting part is that he holds a complicated owernship of the firm whereby he controls the business via a GPI (which he wons 60% of the share), which in turn owns 50% of another holding compnany called Camfin. Camfin owns 25% of Pirelli (A sponsor of Inter), which is by far the largest and dominant shareholder in Olympia, another holding company whose asset is its 18% stake in Telecom Italia.
Can you see the link here?
Inter.
Tronchetti, Rossi, Pirelli are all affliates of Moratti in some form or the other.
To make the matters worse, I think these complicated ownership structure is designed such that Mr. Tronchetti can exert more influence than his pure stake in the company allows him to. The additional capital required for such complicated cross-holding was provided by close friends such as Moratti and co. So in essence, they are one group sharing similar vested interests.
Taking into consideration that Telecom Italia is trying to restructure its business, and turn itself to a media company, could it be that Tronchetti & Rossi et al relegated Juve to lower the fee for future TV rights in Serie A and as a service to Moratti who might have contributed personal sum or two for the corporate restructuring at Telecom Italia?
Anyway, while I detest conspiracy theory, Rossi has too many fishy bits in him to ignore - the man is an absolute crook.