Football Season Guide

Salernitana ended the past season in 18th position and avoided relegation winning the playouts with Virtus Lanciano. It could be considered a good outcome for a newly promoted team, not really for the seahorses who made a very expensive transfer campaign purchasing some important players....this was probably the main mistake, too many newcomers made lose compactness and identity to the team. Moreover, club owner Lotito surprisingly decided to change coach appointing former bari Vincenzo Torrente...his too unbalanced 4-3-3 system of play didn't work and after the winter break was replaced by Menichini who, albeit with great difficulty, managed to avoid the immediate relegation. During the summer transfer market the first move of the club was to appoint experienced Giuseppe Sannino as new coach. The former Palermo man usually opts for a cautious 4-4-2 giving much importance to the play on the wings...that's why the first move was to sign two experienced full-backs like former Vicenza Laverone and former Ternana and Napoli Vitale. Anyway the most important arrival is the one of former Zenit and Bari fantasista Alessandro Rosina who greatly increases the quality of the team. Rosina playing along Coda and Donnarumma, who last year proved to be a very reliable attacking duo having scored 17 and 13 goals respectively, could be a lethal weapon of the granata. Meanwhile in the second round of Coppa Italia the Campanians defeated Benevento but were then knocked out by Pisa after the penalty shootout.