ROME – Aurelio De Laurentiis took the field, went on the counterattack and anticipated the meeting with Mario Giuffredi together with sporting director Giovanni Manna, the diplomatic key to the mess: the president, the sporting director and the agent Giovanni Di Lorenzo they met yesterday in Rome, in FilmAuro, and for four hours they addressed one of the most delicate topics of Napoli’s summer. On the cover together with the renewal of Kvaratskhelia, the second chapter of the book already in progress: in due course. And first of all the final balance of the Roman confrontation: signs of peace. A cautious optimism towards a climate of greater serenity that would block Antonio Conte’s expectationswho has always been a supporter of a single thought regarding the player, which is also shared with the president: Di Lorenzo is not only untransferable, rather he is a pivot, a fundamental pillar of the team that the club is gradually shaping following his ideas and indications . De Laurentiis and Giuffredi will meet again today: an encore that authorizes us to validate the trust gained yesterday. And which will start the second mission: the president in Germany with sporting director Manna to meet Mamuka Jugeli and also deal with the renewal of Kvara. Another untransferable and essential from Conte.
Di Lorenzo, signs of peace
The meeting in Rome, in the splendid offices on the third floor of the noble and elegant Palazzo Bonaparte which overlooks Piazza Venezia on one side and Via del Corso on the other, came at the end of three or four other key moments: the official transfer request which Di Lorenzo delivered to the club on the eve of the last match of the season, explaining that he considered his cycle now closed for a series of footballing reasons and more; a couple of telephone contacts between the captain and Conte, before the European Championship and after the match against Spain; the meeting in Naples two weeks ago between the coach, the sporting director and Giuffredi. The story, we were saying, is starting to take on contours of greater serenity: at the canvas embroidered with patience from the sporting director Manna from the first moments and to Conte’s decisive interventions after his investiture, the touch of De Laurentiis was added. He took to the field himself just before the presentation of the new coach and the start of the season – with the training camps – to restore peace and put an end to the case.
Kvaratskhelia, work on the renovation
The next ones, however, should become the days of second mission: that for dye the future of Kvara blue. After the exploits of his agent Jugeli and his father Badri- «We want to leave, no illusions» – the tension has risen. Powered by PSG pressing: offer of 11 million per season to the player and of 110 million to Napoli. Rejected without reply by De Laurentiis. Manna, in the meantime, had patched things up and immediately planned a new meeting with Jugeli, to be moderated depending on Georgia’s fate at the European Championships, but in the end Adl broke the deadlock: a possible short-term President’s blitz in Germany together with his director to meet Khvicha’s entourage, agent and father, and to try to make a change definitively to the question of renewal by reducing distances. Napoli has the strength of a contract until 2027 on its side, of course, but locking Kvara with a smile until 2029, after the signs of peace with the captain, would make the start of the brand new era perfect.
