Pierpaolo Paoletti, former Napoli manager, spoke on Radio CRC during Raffaele Auriemma’s “Si Gonfia la Rete” broadcast: “My thoughts on Napoli’s season? If they were to win all 4 games Napoli would reach 62 points, last year these points earned them the Conference League.
This year’s muscle injuries? It’s something that also happened to Allegri at Juventus for which no one was able to explain. Does it also happen in Naples? It’s something they should explain. At the basis of all this there is a psychological-emotional component. In football you win, you lose and you draw, so you express an opinion. But this opinion cannot differ from what happens in society. After being there I can say that what doesn’t happen behind the desk doesn’t happen on the pitch. Then there are exceptions like that of the scudetto. We must thank Spalletti who declared that his collaborators advised him to leave the year before the scudetto.
The club produces the football spectacle and must have the sporting result as its objective, keeping in mind its own possibilities. Napoli’s possibilities go hand in hand with the depth of the club. Napoli has a low turnover, linked to sporting results.
What is De Laurentiis’ program in his desire to chase sporting results by increasing Napoli’s turnover?
A logic must change and I believe it will not change. The logic is to express an asset that follows individual interests.
If there is no desire to move from individual interest to club interest, Napoli will never be able to make the leap back into the ranks of the great Italian clubs.
On the one hand we have 4/5/6 clubs that have invested a lot. The clubs that can get into debt do so because they have structures, assets, things that De Laurentiis never wanted to do.
At a certain point, despite the 6 European qualifications in Gasperini’s 8 years, Percassi felt the need to sell some company shares. Before, however, he had a highly competent structure.
To win the championship you need money, expertise and a cohesive environment.
The aim of a company that produces football is sporting results. De Laurentiis wants to be the boss. He is the master, he can do what he wants, but he must invest in the technical choices.”
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