They won't have as much commitment as previous owners. Alot of Italian fans hate udinese because recently they've fielded mostly foreigners but I've always liked udinese. They had zico. Then the great Bierhoff and amoruso. Di Natale, iaquinta, Alexis sanchez, asamoah, isla, handanovic etc One of the few we'll run teams in italy
Only four Italian provinces are much bigger than Udine. They are home to most of Italy's strongest clubs: Rome (Roma, Lazio), Milan (Inter, AC Milan), Naples (Napoli), and Turin (Juve, Torino). Beyond that, you've got a lot of places whose size is on the same order of magnitude, and their local clubs span a wide range. Among them, Udinese is one of the best and also one of the best supported. As a (haphazard) baseline, I looked at Italian attendances back in 1984-85. Udinese ranked #10 among all Italian clubs, drawing over 35K per game. I do love smaller places with strong traditions so don't mean to be a wet blanket. It's just that I see Udinese as one of many examples, rather than an outlier. Within Concacaf, I'd argue that success stories like Pachuca and Alajuela are more remarkable.
I'm sure there are more remarkable success stories, but if you've been to Italy and Udine and know folks from there... well, the Italians and Udinese I know consider it pretty remarkable that they've been in Serie A as consistently as they have, that they've drawn some of the players they have and that they get the consistent support they have. But sure, there are other clubs from small/not dense populations that thrive that consistently in top leagues - but not a whole lot of them. (and "only four..." you sure bout that?)
Some of our guys don't bother adapting to a different country. Nothing wrong with that. Personally, I'd love to live in Italy learn the language etc
Really weird for the guy with the Italian father. But there are clubs where not learning the language is punished.
I remember an interview on U.S. TV where he was asked how to correctly pronounce his name and he rolled his eyes and said "ask my Dad."
Sometimes it's worse to have a "real" speaker close to you. My better half's first language is French. I can pull off a respectable casual convo with French people and they understand what I'm saying well enough, even if I know my le and la are scrambled as often as they're correct and my syntax is tangled web of word order. My wife, however, will immediately switch any convo to English "your French just hurts my ears - and my heart." lol. My French has gotten worse since we've been together.
Busio was at the SKC match last night. They showed him on the big screen during half time. People started chanting for him to come back!