Not a matter of “vil money” but of “principle”. With a note released on the official website of the club, the president of Napoli Aurelio De Laurentiis he decided to “clarify” the Spalletti affair and his “possible commitment as coach of the national team”.
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Spalletti’s choice
The story is known. The FIGC wants Luciano Spalletti as new coach in place of the outgoing player ManciniSpalletti left Napoli after winning the Scudetto (after the club had exercised the renewal option for another season) but to return to the bench – at least until the end of the year – he must pay a penalty of just over €3 millions.
Luciano Spalletti
(afp)
De Laurentiis and the reason for the penalty
De Laurentiis recounts that he inserted the penalty “listening to the voice and sentiment of the millions of Napoli fans who feel a deep bond with the coach of the Champion d’Italia team” and that he “asked for guarantees on compliance with this sabbatical period, inserting a penalty in the event that his commitment has failed”.
The management of the football federation
The Napoli president criticizes the federcalcio for handling the Mancini affair: “What strikes me as the most surprising is that two very important matches for the national team are just a few weeks away, with coach Roberto Mancini resigning. In this regard, there are two main considerations to make: one does not know how to maintain relations with one’s collaborators, leading them to resign; there is a lack of legal instruments suitable for withholding them, determining compliance with the contracts signed, also through the provision of specific penalties”.
Gabriel Gravina
(ansa)
Three million to free Spalletti
And on the decision to bet on his former coach: “If it falls rightly on Spalletti, a great coach with 25 years of experience at a high level, who delivered the best football in Europe last season, offering him a salary of 3 million net three years, one cannot stop in front of the assumption (paying on behalf of the coach) of one million gross per year to free him from his contractual obligation (commitment not only towards Napoli but towards all its millions of fans ). All of this is inconsistent.”
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A matter of principle
For De Laurentiis “three million is certainly not a lot for Napoli, but the question in the present case is not of” vil money “, but a question of principle, which does not only concern Calcio Napoli, but the entire football system Italian, who must shed his amateurish attitude to face the challenges by respecting the rules of businesses, joint-stock companies, the market”. To then close: “But until the “rule” is allowed to be the “exemption”, the football system will not be able to evolve and there will continue to be “Spalletti” cases, as “authoritative” commentators who do not know how it goes will continue to express themselves run a business in a healthy way”.
2023-08-15 13:08:17
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