Il Corriere di Siena reports Valentino Renzi’s response to the repsonse given in Gazzetta dello Sport by journalist Luca Chiabotti to a letter from a Fortitudo Bologna fan.

(...) "Regarding the championship being judged as a given just because it was won by Montepaschi Siena for four seasons in a row, I’d like to know if back in the days of Simmenthal Milano or Ignis Varese or Olimpia Milano and Virtus Bologna and their grand slams, if everything was ok; and if, instead of talking about a championships that was a given, they thought about (and rightly so) recognizing the merits of who won.”  (...)

La Nazione on Montepaschi’s market

(...) So, a profoundly renewed team. But the real novelty is their position at the championship’s starting line. Now there’s not team way ahead to follow. Now Montepaschi has to chase too. The European race seems like an uneven one, but pole position in the Italian championship also has yet to be assigned. Milano is fired up, Roma wants to give it a try (…)