<p>Italian Serie A strugglers Sampdoria received a sinister warning from an unknown source on Saturday when a severed pig's head was delivered to the club's headquarters.</p>.<p>The <em>Godfather</em>-style gift was found in a box along with a message addressed to former club president Massimo Ferrero and current vice-president Antonio Romei reading "the next heads will be yours", a spokesman for the club said.</p>.<p>The police were called to the scene, he added.</p>.<p>In a statement, Sampdoria expressed "profound outrage and indignation in the face of yet another serious act of intimidation".</p>.<p>Last month, a blank bullet was delivered to Sampdoria's offices accompanied by threats against Ferrero and Edoardo Garrone, a previous owner of the club.</p>.<p>Ferrero, who still controls Sampdoria via a family holding, resigned from his position after he was arrested in 2021 on financial charges unrelated to football.</p>.<p>The 71-year-old has angered fans who say he is running down Sampdoria's finances and refusing to sell the club to new owners capable of rescuing it from financial and sporting disaster.</p>.<p>The Genoa-based side currently sit second-bottom of the table on 11 points after 23 games, eight points adrift of safety, and are critically short of cash.</p>.<p>They next travel to fifth-placed Lazio on Monday.</p>.<p>Other Italian teams have faced similar intimidation in the past.</p>.<p>The sporting director of Palermo was sent a severed goat's head in 2006, while in 1999 the president of Reggina received a bull's head.</p>
<p>Italian Serie A strugglers Sampdoria received a sinister warning from an unknown source on Saturday when a severed pig's head was delivered to the club's headquarters.</p>.<p>The <em>Godfather</em>-style gift was found in a box along with a message addressed to former club president Massimo Ferrero and current vice-president Antonio Romei reading "the next heads will be yours", a spokesman for the club said.</p>.<p>The police were called to the scene, he added.</p>.<p>In a statement, Sampdoria expressed "profound outrage and indignation in the face of yet another serious act of intimidation".</p>.<p>Last month, a blank bullet was delivered to Sampdoria's offices accompanied by threats against Ferrero and Edoardo Garrone, a previous owner of the club.</p>.<p>Ferrero, who still controls Sampdoria via a family holding, resigned from his position after he was arrested in 2021 on financial charges unrelated to football.</p>.<p>The 71-year-old has angered fans who say he is running down Sampdoria's finances and refusing to sell the club to new owners capable of rescuing it from financial and sporting disaster.</p>.<p>The Genoa-based side currently sit second-bottom of the table on 11 points after 23 games, eight points adrift of safety, and are critically short of cash.</p>.<p>They next travel to fifth-placed Lazio on Monday.</p>.<p>Other Italian teams have faced similar intimidation in the past.</p>.<p>The sporting director of Palermo was sent a severed goat's head in 2006, while in 1999 the president of Reggina received a bull's head.</p>