“Conte-Napoli? Everything stopped, Milan involved! Pioli would be a first choice. Happy hoax, Montella unlikely”

“The new Napoli coach is yet to be decided, at the moment there is no definitive name: everything is still on Conte, he is the one to look around before deciding. He and Napoli are keeping the Milan affair under observation, there could be an evolution there with Ibrahimovic taking Conte and Napoli with Pioli, it is a possible option. I believe that Pioli’s days are numbered, he should destroy Inter in the derby. Milan will have to choose a coach and Conte has more appeal than Lopetegui, if that bench is occupied then Pioli as an Italian goes on the market.

Napoli are also following Gasperini, if he does well he could win the Scudetto again at Napoli, he was Napoli’s coach in 2011 for four hours between the argument and the peace with Mazzarri. Napoli doesn’t have a short time to decide, then there are many rumors.

The one linked to Massimiliano Allegri is a hoax, it’s not really Napoli’s intentions. I find Vincenzo Montella unlikely even if in the past it was a real obsession, he preferred him to Sarri and if Della Valle hadn’t resisted due to a release clause, Sarri would never have arrived in Naples. Fonseca’s name? In Rome he was considered the village idiot unlike Garcia.

I believe there are four names but it doesn’t depend on Napoli but on the situations: Pioli and Italiano will free themselves.

Pioli underrated? Someone who made Lazio, Inter, Fiorentina and Milan cannot be considered second rate. They chase him away from the Rossoneri because in the last five years there has been an Inter team that wins, in a city with two teams you experience it like that and not like a single-team city. Milan have had many injuries, but they are second in the league despite not being the second force in the championship, which Napoli should have been. Milan were not a championship team, Giroud at 37 years old could not be the starting center forward.

Stefano Pioli is under a lot of pressure at the moment, Zlatan Ibrahimovic met Antonio Conte a month and a half ago and he must not have liked this: he won a scudetto and made a Champions League semi-final, he took the team to the top European competition and in any case it is spoken badly of.

Napoli have already signed a coach considered a loser in Milan, and it was Spalletti: from Rome and Milan they told me that Napoli had done something crazy by signing him.

Pioli has managed complicated situations, Gasperini has only two experiences namely Genoa and Atalanta: he hasn’t won anything, yet he is a gentleman coach with a Bergamo cycle that will go down in history. But Pioli’s CV is first choice, although my favorite would be Conte. Italian, on the other hand, leaves me perplexed. Thiago Motta will go to Juventus, Giuntoli now has the power granted to him by the owners.

Does De Laurentiis have no charm with coaches? He took on Benitez and Ancelotti in a delicate phase of his career. Who made Thiago Motta want to come to Napoli after Spalletti? He refused out of expediency. Luis Enrique wanted ten million and a great team, how could he compete? When names like that jump up, Napoli is not a club that top coaches come to, they do so if they have to redeem themselves or if they have to grow further and then go elsewhere.”