Although respectability in the league was upheld by goalkeeper Francesco Toldo, playmaker Rui Costa and striker Enrico Chiesa, both Toldo and Rui Costa departed for the Milanese clubs in the summer of 2001, as president Vittorio Cecchi Gori desperately tried to save a collapsing economy.
Although, the Berlusconi I Cabinet obtained a vote of confidence also in the Senate, thanks to the defection of four PPI senators (Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Stefano Cusumano, Luigi Grillo and Tomaso Zanoletti), who decided not to participate in the vote.
Their arrivals were part of an effort by club president Vittorio Cecchi Gori to make the squad more competitive for the title run as well as to keep club legend Gabriel Batistuta happy, since the famous striker who recently turned 30 started considering his option to leave in search of the Scudetto that eluded him for years.
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