Naples transfer market – New Napoli coach, the race for the Azzurri bench is becoming increasingly tight. Colleague of Mediaset Carlo Landoni comments on the current situation in the Neapolitan home with a name in pole position who currently has a 70% chance of becoming the new coach:
“Stefano Pioli And Gian Piero Gasperinithe presidential casting to entrust the Napoli bench for 2024/25, the season of re-foundation, is reduced to these two profiles. The current Milan coach has the advantage and, based on our information, we currently give him a 70% chance of sitting on Maradona’s bench next year.
Pegs has slight presidential favor. I like it for these reasons. One: he has the right experience for a hot place like Naples having coached in Milan and Rome, contexts that bring with them a great deal of pressure. Two: he has a proactive idea of play, tactically it is based on the 4-man defence, a dogma in the Naples area. Three: he would still arrive as a winner, in the sense that his CV includes the 2022 Scudetto won with Milan. Four: his salary falls within the club’s financial sustainability parameters. A two-year contract is ready for Pioli with a unilateral option for the third at 3.5 million plus bonuses per season.
Contacts between the parties have already started, maximum availability has been received, naturally the negotiation would come to fruition at the end of Serie A. Pioli still has one year left on his contract with Milan, so he must free himself first. The severance pay will have to be negotiated with the club.
However, this fact must be underlined: until yesterday the choice of coach has always been an unquestionable decision of President De Laurentiis. Rumors tell us that this time the choice of coach will be more collegial with the rest of the club. Part of the club is pushing for Gian Piero Gasperini, already explored, whose ability to enhance the young people and players available is appreciated. After all, the next Naples will be revolutionized. Based on the information available to us, we give the current Atalanta coach a 30% chance of coaching Napoli next season. In the middle there is the Atalanta obstacle: Gasperini is under contract, the Nerazzurri club wants to renew.
We remember that in the era of the first Mazzarri, Gasperini had been contacted by President De Laurentiis to take his place, before the President himself then decided to renew with Mazzarri. To demonstrate the fact that the games are still open and that the Italian number one appreciates the Atalanta coach, there are also the compliments pronounced today on the sidelines of ‘Race for The Cure’, an event for the fight against breast cancer: “The I always watch Atalanta matches with great pleasure – declared AdL – because they have a very good coach, excellent players and they play very interesting football”
And the others? More and more in the background Antonio Conte, a very expensive and complicated operation. left the scene Vincenzo Italiano. It’s a two-horse race between Pioli and Gasperini, with the Milan coach in the lead as long as presidential unpredictability doesn’t come up with a surprise name.”
