Conte to Napoli, announcement on Monday

The final countdown. The countdown to the signing of Antonio Conte it’s over. In short, it’s done. In the middle the accounts of… Conte. The staff, the contract, the image rights, the objectives, the bonuses, the reinforcements, the transfers, the retirement and even the first Italian Cup match at the beginning of August. There is everything and more in the head of the new coach in pectore in these hours Naples. And in a short, very short time, the Latin phrase “in pectore” will also be abolished. Antonio Conte will be made official by next Monday at the helm of the Italian club. Maybe even before. The location in which the former coach of the Italian national team will be presented will be decided immediately afterwards. The splendid setting of San Carlo Theatre it remains one of the main options, but it is not the only one. It will certainly be a prestigious venue to celebrate the event. After all, Conte arrives in Naples as a superstar and has accepted Naples as a top club. A perfect wedding (at least we hope). He will be the helmsman who will stand on the deck of the blue ship and will have the task of taking the team back to the shores that best suit them. A top manager at the court of Aurelio De Laurentiis. A coach who will have full powers and also the highest salary of the entire Napoli squad. The figures are important and this is why the parties took all the time available to think about every aspect and smooth out every corner during the negotiation.

And in the end it took the canonical seven days that De Laurentiis had taken before allowing himself a mini holiday in the Balearics. Conte has been linked to Napoli with a three-year agreement for approximately 7 million a year, to which bonuses will be added for qualifying for the Champions League and also for winning the scudetto or the Italian cup. In short, just with the fixed base alone, we are talking about pharaonic numbers in relation to the salaries paid in the past by De Laurentiis’s Napoli to its coaches. All things considered, the operation will burden the club’s coffers by approximately 60 million euros gross: in addition to the coach’s monstrous salary, in fact, we must also add the almost 5 million in three years that will go to the staff of the former Juventus and Inter coach. Conte will bring with him his praetorians: the deputy Starsthe new entry Abbrusto as a technical collaborator, the athletic trainer Coratti and his brother Gianluca as the match analyst. To these must also be added Lele Oriali that Conte strongly wanted on the Napoli staff after his happy experiences with the national team and also at Inter. The world champion of Spain ’82 will have the role of glue between team, coach and club: something more than the figure of team manager, in short. This was the last key to finally open the doors of Napoli to Conte and his staff. Now all we have to do is wait for the presidential tweet. Much will depend on the timing of De Laurentiis, who should take this “holiday” weekend before returning to Rome, and above all on the documents (many, accurate and weighed page by page) which have been examined by a pool of professionals and now they are just waiting to be signed. Once the certified e-mails have been sent, it will just be a matter of putting pen to paper.

The final contract will arrive on the desk of the Filmauro headquarters in Rome where the Italian patron plans to be on Monday morning. Once the signature has been placed at the bottom of the contract, the inevitable presidential tweet will also arrive. Who knows, DeLA might be able to get ahead of the curve…

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