Aurelio De Laurentiis he no longer works on the new stadium, which in his ideas should have been built in the Bagnoli district. The president of Napoli, during the press conference to present the summer training camps, also focused on this issue: “I have been a supporter of Bagnoli, but while the mayor thinks about 32, I have to think about being strong immediately and I did some analysis and I said ‘Aurè, chi to fa fa’ (‘Aurelio, who makes you do it’, ed.), to go to an area where they tell you 14, 18 months for two plots, then the rest of the 185 hectares where they budget for 5 years, are we going to put ourselves in a context that becomes a total brothel with bulldozers and machinery, and then evict 50 thousand people in case of bradyseism? I have put my mind at rest, just today I called my architects and I told him ‘I want to take no more than 2 years from the moment I get my hands on Maradona’, while I was coming here I also simplified a thousand problems for the bureaucrats dear to our politicians.
What if I bet on Maradona? Yes, as long as Mayor Manfredi doesn’t have any sailor’s promises. The extraordinary thing about the mayor is that he is never there, I supported him to be elected, but I told him, I have never gotten along with the mayors here in Naples. A gentleman was defined as the masaniello of the situation, but I have never been able to sit down seriously, he tells me we will build the stadium, he is elected, 6 months pass and I never see him, here, there, up, down, we sit down but he’s fantastic at elusive tactics (laughs, ed.), he’s a tactical theorist. You live longer without ever deciding anything, unlike De Luca (president of the Campania Region, ed.) who can be praised or criticized but he is a man of action, if you decide something with him, if he has said yes to you, you are serene that this happens, I have always made a gigantic effort with the Municipality of Naples. I am the winning engine of that stadium, Naples at the center of a Europe also promotional-advertising outside, but I was given the stadium a few hours before, delivered immediately afterwards, we pay the same as PSG for an exclusive stadium and from which earns more than 100 million a year, in Paris! Do we want to be serious?
I put my money into it, I don’t need financing, intrigues, I just need authorization, who is blocking my work… then I get up, I leave and I don’t show up again because I’m tired, not because of age but because I’ve had enough of those who don’t know how to follow up on words. We need to take responsibility, I told you about the Scudetto and did we bring it or not? Now I’m telling you that we will rebuild a very strong Naples, but it takes time to be reborn, we cannot continue to get by on the ashes of what happened, we need to be reborn. And I am at the stadium, just as in September I hope to lay the first stone for the Napoli sports centre, it will take more than 1 year, there will be 10 football fields, 10 m2 of club offices, then the first team, Primavera and we will do the our part. Where? They’re mine, I need to find a place where families can stay calm and get the kids there safely in a short time. Castel Volturno? No, we’ve been there, that’s it, we’ll do something a quarter of an hour from Naples.”
