Aurelio De Laurentiis gave a long interview in which he also focused on the complicated choice of the Napoli coach over the course of last summer, confirming his interest and desire to bring Vincenzo Italiano. These are his statements:
“My main mistake? You don’t have to wait all that time to send away people who want to leave. If I had decided in March or April or with Giuntoli who wanted to go to Juventus from January… who knows. When you have another year you don’t understand the betrayal, but when you start to understand that as a child he wanted Juve, we who are the mirror enemies of Juve, it’s like having various stabs in the liver, you get angry. This was my mistake. Both with him and with Spalletti who told me late that he wouldn’t stay.”
Then he talked about some choices regarding coaches: “Italiano was ready to come, I didn’t want to do Fiorentina an injustice, then Thiago Motta didn’t want to come. Tudor wanted two years and I didn’t feel like blocking myself for the following year because I understood that the year was now gone and I was already imagining the famous reconstruction. Yes, I could have sent him to hell at the end of the year, but I’m a decent person. I chose Mazzarri because there has always been a feeling and everyone spoke well of him when he arrived. However, if we hadn’t sent Garcia away, the only thing that perhaps needed to be done, or if we had taken Tudor, it doesn’t mean we would have had a top-level championship. But it’s better this way, this is where the concept of refoundation comes from.” TMW reports it.
STEFANO CECCHI’S OPINION
Listen to Cecchi: “The Italian cycle is inferior to those of Prandelli and Montella even if he wins the Conference”
