Unlike Roma, Palermo were put up for sale for non-financial reasons, with Zamparini feeling that the top clubs get the benefit of the doubt over smaller sides in Italy, following some controversial incidents in the defeat to AC Milan on Wednesday night.
He said “this decision is down to the fact that I feel defeated by a world where the sporting values are more and more forgotten, and where the economic and media power of three or four clubs – who want to divide the scudetto among themselves – reign.