It’s Conte Day, Napoli is putting in place all the details of the organizational machine for the presentation which will be held today at 3.15pm at the Teatro di Corte of the Royal Palace. The Salento coach arrived in Naples yesterday afternoon with his wife Elisabetta and daughter Vittoria, he stayed at Parker’s in Corso Vittorio Emanuele and will probably also continue looking for a house in the city with his family. The presentation will be an event of international importance, with 400 guests, more than 100 accredited journalists.
Di Lorenzo, a thorny case
Yesterday at the Britannique, a few steps from Parker’s where Antonio Conte stayed, another summit was held after the one in Rome on Monday between president De Laurentiis, sports director Manna and agent Mario Giuffredi. The Giovanni Di Lorenzo case is on the table, De Laurentiis went into the matter in depth during the Roman summit, tried to understand the reasons for the Napoli captain’s desire to leave, the Juventus court and everything that didn’t work during the last season, the torments. Yesterday the parties continued the diplomatic mission in an appointment that lasted about two hours, delving into the situation even further. The dialogue started with agent Giuffredi also involves the renewal of the contract of Folorunsho, a midfielder who played last season at Verona and is participating in the European Championships with Spalletti’s national team. The dialogue also continued at dinner with Antonio Conte at Parker’s. The parties began this affair with opposite positions: Napoli absolutely does not want to deprive themselves of Di Lorenzo who, instead, has expressed his desire to leave through his agent. The two consecutive meetings illustrate De Laurentiis’s involvement in this thorny affair and arrive after a weekend in which the Napoli president also had contact with Di Lorenzo since the national team’s retreat in Germany.
The returns from the loans need to be sorted out, Caprile remains
In fifteen days Napoli will leave for Dimaro’s retirement, Conte will also have to evaluate those returning from loans. Caprile will be Meret’s deputy, for Gaetano there are offers from Cagliari and Parma and the interest of Fiorentina and Bologna, Napoli will have to make a choice on the midfielder born in 2000 who grew up in their academy. The striker born in 2003 Ambrosino, who played on loan at Catanzaro last season, is liked by Frosinone where he would find the coach Vivarini and by Cremonese.
Conte asked De Laurentiis to resolve the situations linked to Di Lorenzo and Kvaratskhelia. He wants to start again from these two pillars to build his Napoli, he needs quality, personality and above all serenity to start again and erase the waste of last season.
Kvara is playing for its last chances at the European Championships
Tonight Georgia plays its last chances of qualifying for the round of 16 against Portugal, Kvaratskhelia spoke in the press conference, avoiding questions about his future as he does on the pitch: «I would like to avoid commenting, we are here to talk about the Portuguese national team and the Georgian one. This is the only thing that interests us, we don’t think about anything else.”
If Georgia were to go through, in the next few days Manna and De Laurentiis could fly to Germany to meet agent Mamuka Jugeli and deal with the other case plaguing Napoli’s summer.
