Naples, 1 July 2024 – Today is already the future: fromJuly 1st we virtually turn the calendar sheet of the football seasons and a year ago at home Napoli bittersweet feelings prevailed, linked to nostalgia and melancholy for having to archive a dream championship. The next one, almost prophetically, would in fact turn out to be a nightmare, with the defense of the tricolor abandoned immediately and the slow agony until the final tenth position, the one that for the first time after 14 years would have excluded the Azzurri from any continental competition despite the three changes on the bench that would have affected Rudy Garcia, Walter Mazzarri e Francis Calzona. Well, today, after a year, the official start of the new season is welcomed in the capital of Campania with totally different moods, first of all due to the fourth coach who has taken up residence on the bench of Outside the cave within twelve months: Anthony Conteafter a few weeks, has already brought its aura, just to follow a dialectical trend very much in vogue now. All this will be enough to bring back the Napoli on the highest floors of the A league? Probably not, even though we are talking about a coach with a very strong environmental and media impact capable of optimizing the squads at his disposal in the best possible way. Hence the hard work of the new sporting director Giovanni Mannajust to stay on the subject of innovations aimed at putting into practice that revolution announced in recent months by Aurelio De Laurentiiswho in the meantime greeted the 6 players contract expiring: Diego Demme, Leander Dendoncker, Pierluigi Gollini, Hubert Idasiak, Hamed Junior Traorè and especially Piotr Zielinski from today they have taken off the blue shirt in front of other players, to be precise 17, who will return to base. And some even to stay.
Who returns
In reality, numbers in hand, the blue jersey for those returning from years spent elsewhere to gain experience will almost be a privilege for a lucky (and above all good) few. It’s about Elia Caprile e Michael Folorunshothe only ones that are certain to date, always assuming that this concept can still exist in the transfer market, to remain at Napoli to finally play their chances to take flight. Behind them, in a hypothetical starting grid, are placed Gianluca Gaetano, Alessio Zerbin, Alessandro Zanoli e Walid Cheddira: all of them, as well as some young products from the youth sector, with Giuseppe Ambrosino e Coli Saco to represent the potentially most interesting elements, the chances of permanence between the withdrawals of will be played out Dimaro e Castel di Sangrobut the impression is that the only one Zerbincapable of racing on both lanes and practically across the pitch, may really be of interest to Conte even more so in the case of actual use of the three-man defense. The same Cheddar could remain with the reserve gallons in attack: even more so in the event of the exit of John Simeon. Then there are those who like Zanoli and especially Gaetano could become a source of perhaps even unexpected incoming treasure in the event of a permanent transfer to mid-range teams in the league A league.
The other open cases
L’July 1st It also marks the day when, at any moment, teams can activate the release clauses of players who have this exit strategy in their contracts. At home Napoli the scenario concerns Victor Osimhenwhich for a figure oscillating between 120 e 130 million he could take off the blue shirt immediately. Yes, it could, because in reality it is the middle of the night around the Nigerian today, with the teams that until a few months ago appeared interested have withdrawn from the race: perhaps only frightened by the price or perhaps not convinced by the investment itself also for this reason which could guarantee a young, but no longer very young, striker who scores a lot but who also often runs into physical problems. This, at least according to the Conte thought reeled off on the day of the official presentation, is the only issue on which there is no discretion of the club and that of the coach himself: the other players, those with ‘normal’ contracts and therefore without termination clauses, will all remain if they are deemed functional for the new project in progress. The message, not even so indirect, is all for John DiLorenzo e Khvicha Kvaratskheliathe two thorny cases of this very first part of the summer. Cases destined, however, unless there are other twists, to resolve themselves into nothing, but not without first passing through some preparatory steps. In the case of the captain, linked to the Napoli until the June 30, 2028it will take numerous conversations and diplomatic efforts to mend a rift linked to footballing events and perhaps even extra-footballing ones. If this step is overcome without further setbacks, Conte will have to think about finding the best By Lorenzoa far cry from the version seen at the Europeans and even before that in his last disastrous season in blue: with everyone’s hope that there are still traces of that full-back skilled in both phases, complete with his goal-scoring habit. The other case concerns Kvaratskheliaone who instead, net of the very fresh elimination at the hands of Spainthe showcase of Euro 2024 he exploited it well and that, unlike Osimhenstill has a lot of market. Not only that: unlike By Lorenzojust to continue the comparisons, the Georgian has a very long contract, expiring on June 30, 2027but very weak from an economic point of view, as well depicted by the salary from 1.5 million. Meanwhile the sirens of Paris Saint Germainwell highlighted by the dialectic of the agent Mamuka Jugeli and dad’s Badri, they try quite a bit and the only cure in this case may be to put one’s hands in one’s wallet to adjust the salary and make the number 77 (or perhaps 7) the fulcrum of the project being launched today, on the day in which football proverbially draws a line, leaving behind what happened before. In home Napoli This moment, more than ever this year, has been awaited for months: today it has arrived, with Conte and society called to reverse course compared to the recent past.
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