{"id":25862,"date":"2026-08-05T20:56:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T18:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/news\/%f0%9f%8e%99%ef%b8%8finterview-ceo-melis-with-videolina\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T10:48:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T08:48:52","slug":"%f0%9f%8e%99%ef%b8%8finterview-ceo-melis-with-videolina","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/en\/news\/%f0%9f%8e%99%ef%b8%8finterview-ceo-melis-with-videolina\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udf99\ufe0fINTERVIEW | CEO Melis with Videolina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stefano Melis, CEO and General Manager of Cagliari Calcio, spoke to Videolina on the sidelines of the official presentation of the First Team in the square in Pula. These are his words: <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ON THE NEW STADIUM<\/strong><br\/>&#8220;We expressed our satisfaction last week after the City Council approved the project with the declaration of public interest. We are working with our usual pragmatism and realism, aware that this is another important step towards the next ones. We hope to soon reach the public tender stage and then begin construction in the first half of next year.&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>THE PULA EVENING<\/strong><br\/>&#8220;We love taking every opportunity to travel around Sardinia and meet our fans on the island. This new season presentation is one of those opportunities, and we want to enjoy it with the locals, the many tourists, and the fans awaiting the first official matches. Today we&#8217;re in Pula; we&#8217;ve been everywhere over the years, and we want to keep it that way.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ON THE ESPOSITO CASE<\/strong><br\/>&#8220;This is one of those cases that doesn&#8217;t reflect well on the football world and undoubtedly makes fans and enthusiasts a little disillusioned. We were surprised and disappointed by the evolution of this situation: Cagliari had met with the agent at an early stage, despite the fact that he had a contract until 2030 signed last year, and last week had formalized a significant salary increase proposal, which made Esposito one of the highest-paid players in the squad. It was our generosity, and in the end, we found ourselves faced with something more akin to an extortion attempt: the boy, undoubtedly badly advised by his agent, left the training camp during the night, disrespecting the group, the coach, the staff, and the Rossoblu fans. We were expecting him today when training resumed, but in his place, a medical certificate arrived with embarrassing content, to say the least. The player is certainly on the market, but Cagliari will only consider offers that are commensurate with his technical ability and in line with his repeated request for a salary close to double his. of the current one&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":25851,"template":"","tags":[],"news_cat":[278,276,274],"class_list":["post-25862","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_cat-new-in","news_cat-latest-news","news_cat-first-team"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\ud83c\udf99\ufe0fINTERVIEW | CEO Melis with Videolina<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Stefano Melis, CEO and General Manager of the Club, spoke on the sidelines of the presentation of the First Team in Pula\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/en\/news\/%f0%9f%8e%99%ef%b8%8finterview-ceo-melis-with-videolina\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\ud83c\udf99\ufe0fINTERVIEW | CEO Melis with Videolina\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Stefano Melis, CEO and General Manager of the Club, spoke on the sidelines of the presentation of the First Team in Pula\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/en\/news\/%f0%9f%8e%99%ef%b8%8finterview-ceo-melis-with-videolina\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Cagliari\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-06T08:48:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-05-at-20.42.15_43.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1326\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"995\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/en\/news\/%f0%9f%8e%99%ef%b8%8finterview-ceo-melis-with-videolina\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/en\/news\/%f0%9f%8e%99%ef%b8%8finterview-ceo-melis-with-videolina\/\",\"name\":\"\ud83c\udf99\ufe0fINTERVIEW | CEO Melis with Videolina\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/en\/news\/%f0%9f%8e%99%ef%b8%8finterview-ceo-melis-with-videolina\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/en\/news\/%f0%9f%8e%99%ef%b8%8finterview-ceo-melis-with-videolina\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-05-at-20.42.15_43.jpeg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-08-05T18:56:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-08-06T08:48:52+00:00\",\"description\":\"Stefano Melis, CEO and General Manager of the Club, spoke on the sidelines of the presentation of the First Team in Pula\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/en\/news\/%f0%9f%8e%99%ef%b8%8finterview-ceo-melis-with-videolina\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/en\/news\/%f0%9f%8e%99%ef%b8%8finterview-ceo-melis-with-videolina\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/en\/news\/%f0%9f%8e%99%ef%b8%8finterview-ceo-melis-with-videolina\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-05-at-20.42.15_43.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-05-at-20.42.15_43.jpeg\",\"width\":1326,\"height\":995},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/en\/news\/%f0%9f%8e%99%ef%b8%8finterview-ceo-melis-with-videolina\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"\ud83c\udf99\ufe0fINTERVIEW | CEO Melis with Videolina\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/en\/\",\"name\":\"Cagliari - 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