Massimo Cellino owned Leeds United between 2014 and 2017, earlier than promoting the membership to their present proprietor, Andrea Radrizzani.
Cellino didn’t information Leeds again to the Premier League and as a substitute invested the cash earned from promoting the English membership to purchase the Italian membership, Brescia in 2017 – who he nonetheless owns.
The Serie B membership suffered a 6-2 defeat by the hands of SSC Bari on Saturday and a goalscorer from the sport has opened up about his time at Leeds beneath Cellino’s possession.
Former Leeds ahead Mirco Antenucci, who’s at present taking part in for Bari, discovered the again of the online towards Brescia and his aim helped him take ‘small revenge’ over Cellino for what he did to him at Elland Street.
In accordance with Tutto Bari, the 38-year-old has not too long ago revealed that Cellino blocked him from staying at Leeds for an extended interval and was compelled to go away the membership towards his needs.
“If I had scored 12 targets in my second 12 months at Leeds, I’d have had the automated renewal. In December I used to be already at 8 after which Cellino, proprietor of the membership, ordered to not play me anymore. I managed to achieve ten earlier than returning to Italy,” he informed Gazzetta dello Sport.
Antenucci was with the Yorkshire membership between 2014 and 2016, earlier than leaving the membership for SPAL. The Italian performed 80 instances for Leeds, scoring 19 targets all through his time there.
