Naples, 24 May 2024 – Among the few award renewals granted by Aurelio De Laurentiis in the long, hot summer after the championship there was that of Giovanni Di Lorenzo, the captain chosen as the emblem of a winning cycle culminating with the most beautiful high note. Yet, perhaps precisely in that period, something within the Naples he broke down at every level, even personal as regards the full-back: from the bench, troubled in the multiple pass from Luciano Spalletti to Francesco Calzonawith the equally unfortunate management of Rudi Garcia And Walter Mazzarrito the relationship with the square, without forgetting the blue changing room, perhaps damaged by some award renewals at the expense of others that never arrived.
A collective and personal disaster
Own By Lorenzothe symbol of those who started from the bottom, as they say, made it through hard work and commitment, had been rewarded with a signature until 2028 upon payment of 3.5 million per season. In short, considering the age of the full-back, born in ’93, the investment was no small one on the part of De Laurentiiswho in a certain sense had elected the ex Empoli as the glue of a group almost unchanged in its unity but in fact overturned by an almost unprecedented celebration. The patron’s fears were well founded: despite the claim of the championship celebration, which spoke (not very prophetically) of the beginning of a new era, the Azzurri not only would not have repeated the feat achieved the previous season, but would have fallen into a black hole which would gradually take away every objective. First, in fact, the confirmation of the tricolor, then the entry into the next one Champions Leagueamong other things in the year in which the A league qualifies five (or maybe six) teams and, in general, that in any competition UEFA, still hanging by a thread. In short, the disaster is complete and the same By Lorenzo he put a lot of his effort into it, collecting several performances well below the standards: emblematic, just to stay on the subject of missed goals, the disastrous one against Frosinone which would have resulted in premature elimination from the Italian Cup. Well, perhaps that evening the rift between them took place By Lorenzoheavily criticized also on a personal level, and the square which seems to be the prelude to a sale already this summer.
Inter in the background
This time there is no expiring contract involved, as for Piotr Zielinskinor a termination clause: simply, the captain feels he has exhausted his cycle in blue, which began in 2019 and continued in the wake of 230 appearances, 15 goals And 36 assists. Important numbers and equally heavy ambitions that clash with the reality he sees De Laurentiis sole arbiter of any transfer, which according to radio mercato, regarding Zielinskicould see theInter very interested. In short, in the case, for By Lorenzojust as for the Pole, the tricolor would remain sewn into the chest, but with many differences on an emotional and path level.
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