The manager spoke about Napoli and the complicated season
Enrico Fedelemanager and agent, spoke on Radio Marte focusing on Napoli, referring to Francesco Calzona and the fans’ expectations upon his arrival. These are his statements: “I don’t know what people expected from Calzona. Today, after 12-13 games, everyone talks in a certain way. Unfortunately – continues Fedele – people do not listen to those in the profession but only to those who tell or want to tell the things they are told to tell. If Napoli always concedes goals it is because Calzona is unable to teach, he has no credibility. That’s why I said that the general is one thing and the marshal is one thing. I think Politano took the penalty because everyone does as the hell they want. If the penalty taker is Osimhen he should have taken it and I don’t know why he didn’t do it. Who takes the penalty should be decided in the technical meeting before the match. And when the coach had decided who would take the penalty it was only the one designated to do so and no one else. This has been done for a lifetime. If football has changed now it has happened for the worse.”
Subsequently, Fedele expressed his opinion on Napoli’s decision to call a press blackout at the end of the home defeat against Bologna:
“The press blackout agreed with the company was certainly a drama. The captain should have asked to go and talk and show his face. We had to speak out of respect for the fans and make it clear that they were not running away from this negative situation. The fact that the players did not get under the curve is a symptom of a lack of personality. If there had been a coach and captain, they would have gone under the curve and would have exposed themselves even though they deserved the insults they would have received. It was a year of disappointment that erased the joy of the past year. But I hope it is a different signal for the future. Napoli, in my opinion, must make a statement in which they must say that they want to make a revolution in which everything is rejuvenated, all the players are transferable, I have hired a young man and I am taking a young coach.”
The importance of starting again, as management and coach, in order to aspire to Europe again:
“If Napoli wants to maintain Europe then they must organize themselves as a great team. So with a young director he has to get a great football manager and an authoritative coach. In this way you give a system to society. Napoli eliminated all the Neapolitan managers and among the Neapolitans I don’t see one who has experience and character. In choosing the coach, Napoli must understand what he must do and, in your opinion, has the president understood what he must do? Who has to decide whether the defense should play three or four? What authority can Manna have to talk to Gasperini or Conte about certain things. Despite having skills but he is young, inexperienced, what can he say. And, in your opinion, if Juve had seen immediate possibilities, given that Manna was Cherubini’s second, would they have left him?”
