We are in the first half of April, the conflict between Sampdoria president Matteo Manfredi and Gestio Capital founder and majority shareholder Joseph Tey is escalating, and the showdown between the two, which began in the summer of 2025, is getting closer. Manfredi, before "giving up" to the Singaporean businessman, sends a proposal to sell his shares in Sampdoria (42%) to former owner and president Edoardo Garrone through his lawyers. Garrone, inevitably, returns the offer, if it could be considered. A few days later, Matteo Manfredi and Joseph Tey reach an agreement that provides for the Italian financier's exit, who resigns as president of Sampdoria on April 24. Joseph Tey remains the sole owner of the club with 99.96% of the share package. The background of Manfredi's attempt to capitalize his exit from Sampdoria by involving Garrone again - after he had indirectly "blocked" his return in partnership with the Roman financier and Lille owner Alessandro Barnaba (the real driving force behind the operation, which San Quirico Holding would have guaranteed) - shows the uncertainty and volatility of Gestio Capital's founder. Without considering, among other things, that the proposal to sell his shares to Garrone in opposition to Tey was already impractical: thinking that the Erg president could become a minority shareholder in Sampdoria of an investor totally unknown to him means not having a clear vision of the situation and the high-level entrepreneurial dynamics. Beyond the fact that, as repeatedly stated, Garrone has closed his direct experience in football and in two circumstances (first with Vialli and the Americans and then with Barnaba) he had worked as a solid facilitator to support Sampdoria as a fan. But always choosing his partners first.