“I close by saying that it is clear that not taking Tudor was a huge mistake.”
During ‘Campania Sport’ on Channel 21the journalist Umberto Chiariello intervened with his usual editorial: “At the end of Napoli-Bologna a couple of things came to mind that made me smile in a slightly bitter way. The first, jokingly before the match, I said: ‘Today the betting agencies won’t even quote Ndoye’s goal because he will surely score’. Punctual like a sentence he scored after 10 ‘. I forgot that I had taken Posch to Fantasy football, in the 12th minute he also scored his first goal of the season, joining Cerri, the brace Cheddira, Abraham, Success. In short, we resurrected everyone, I thought that Ndoye was predestined for this goal. Then Massimo Troisi came to mind in his film ‘Groundhog Day’ with Marco Misseri who acts crazy and says: ‘Pride and dignity’. I think that right now talking in Naples about pride and dignity, which this team completely lacks, is crazy. Perhaps Troisi had foreseen it. Even the derelict Salernitana showed dignity today against Juve by equalizing and at the last second the very poor Basic ate the winning goal, and Napoli didn’t! Down by two headed goals, with the beautiful statuettes watching the Bologna players score, for 80 minutes we witnessed a waste of time.
If I now call players and coaches into question, you will all think that I want to hide the club’s faults, but involving everyone, maybe it’s not better? Because everyone has responsibilities, obviously in different proportions. Perhaps the footballers are the least guilty, according to Bruscolotti they are the first, because these gentlemen receive their salaries on time. Mr. Osimhen earns 800 thousand euros a month, but he struggles on the pitch and at least sweats his shirt when he decides to play, because he misses half the season. Other people collect 250 thousand in net transfers in a month. Meluso has disappeared, there is no manager to speak to the team. Why did he disappear because he knows he will be replaced? Was it the president who told him to stand aside while waiting for Manna? But what has Meluso done this season? Nothing, it was choreographic. Taken at the end of the transfer market, catapulted there in the morning for a press conference where he knew nothing. Now he is no longer there, the team is alone abandoned to itself with a hostage coach, because he is a ferryman without powers.
Calzona also turned out to be an absolute disaster! But I’m not into the little game of apologizing to Mazzarri and Garcia, because it’s a stupid game and whoever plays it is incompetent. It’s not a question of saying one person is very poor and I’ll take one who’s even worse and then, for good measure, I’ll keep the one from before. Here it’s about getting a good one, if anything it’s the fault of whoever gets him. You can’t say that things would have been better with Mazzarri, Mazzarri was an absolute disaster! He was in no condition, his last 10 years speak for him. The last experience in Cagliari was devastating, he was out of the loop and no one would have ever caught him. It was the motion of feelings. Calzona, the idea was: this one knows them, has already trained them, will restore the football flows that are known. But as Bruno Giordano said yesterday, Calzona could also become a first coach, but not in Naples! Where he always played second and he doesn’t have the authority in the eyes of the players. He is unable to leave Anguissa and Juan Jesus out of the team after they rebel against retirement. There he had to give the signal: ‘You don’t play, because you should be ashamed of the Empoli match, so keep quiet and silent, go into retreat and don’t say a word. Instead, out of the team!’ But are those two the biggies of the locker room? “And who cares! I’m going away anyway’: hombre vertical. And instead nothing! Completely held hostage by the senators. The same ones always play causing disasters, it was worth trying some of them and showing that there was some internal competition. If you suck and play all the time, why should you stimulate yourself if it doesn’t come from inside you? Pride and dignity. Garcia? You don’t apologize to Garcia, he was the origin of all the evils. He left the team physically and mentally devastated, let alone a tsunami. So out of three coaches they don’t make a good one, because they aren’t three coaches. Garcia was now gone, he had gone to Arabia to get the money and they sent him away from there too with a deal. Mazzarri is a former coach and Calzona has never coached him in his life, it is the first time that he has been the first coach except in the national team where he is the selector.
Without prejudice to the fact that the players are responsible and the coaches are unspeakable, we come to the real problem: the self-confidence that the Napoli president has when he lost the two vital cornerstones Spalletti and Giuntoli, but convinced of his unstoppable strength because he won the only scudetto of the 2000s after Totti. Strengthened by this belief he thought that he had the solution to all problems. ‘Is Kim leaving? What’s the problem, we find him a good guy, as we did last year we will do this year’. These are the wrong reasoning. ‘Anyone who coaches them, who is a good manager, this team now goes by itself thanks to Spalletti’. Now Spalletti has put the heavy load on us by saying that there was everything to open a cycle, ‘Then I’ll tell you why I left’, then he never says it. He too could have kept quiet at this moment, if he loves Naples he shouldn’t do these things. After this conviction there is the revenge of the gods and De Laurentiis paid in the saltiest way possible.
I close by saying that it is clear that not taking Tudor was a huge mistake. Because he achieved five wins, a draw and a defeat in the derby, he restored Lazio and brought them back up in the standings. Because it’s a real mistake, of personality, then maybe you didn’t like Tudor and kicked him out. But paying a year’s salary for Tudor was a lot cheaper than the current mess you’re in. Among the many mistakes made, perhaps not taking Tudor after Garcia is the biggest of all. So now Aurelio De Laurentiis, for whom I have enormous respect, also call me a licker and a servant of power. I have always said that this is the greatest president in the history of Napoli, he led Napoli to very high points for 19 years to the point of winning a historic championship. I reject all criticisms to the sender: there is no sports centre, there is no mega manager, there is no budget, but stop it! For 19 years he did very well, the 20th year he caused disasters. Now he is given the chance to recover, if he makes a mistake next year we will say that this cycle is over. Now is the bet, now and now! And there is only one way out: Antonio Conte! Either you send them all away as they asked you in the corner, because they are not worthy of wearing the Napoli shirt and have become bastards, or you need someone to put them back in line and make them play as they know how. Because 80% deserve very high ranking positions, but the right coach is needed. There is only one name that can bear this, this is not the time to save Andrea Chiavelli! Because saving is bad earnings, because you lost more money by wanting to save. Tudor not enough for you? Conte or Gasperini at the limit, I don’t see any other solutions. Because right now we are at year zero of real rubble. So De Laurentiis if you only look at money you have a short life, but if you go back to being the visionary you were for so many years you can start again and make many people eat their tongues who couldn’t wait to spread shit. This is the low conclusion of a people who have many low representatives and a support that can’t wait to be gallows, from which I dissociate myself and rebel”.
