There was a time, not so very long ago, when dark horses Parma boasted one of the most illustrious squads in European football, with the likes of Faustino Asprilla, Gianfranco Zola, Fabio Cannavaro, Pippo Inzaghi, Juan Sebastian Veron, Hristo Stoichkov, Gianluigi Buffon, Lillian Thuram and Hernan Crespo all passing through during the mid-to-late 1990s.
Now, with the club rock-bottom of Serie A, nine points adrift of safety and already teetering over the relegation precipice despite still having 17 games left to play, their owners have cut their losses, taken a huge hit and sold up for the price of a Kinder Egg.
