“The question is simple: if you don’t win when Juve don’t show up for the title fight and the Milanese lose a lot of points, when do you win the Scudetto?”
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Michele Criscielloin his editorial for Tuttomercatowebspoke of Empoli’s ko that puts an end to Napoli’s scudetto dream: “The way he threw it away, Napoli should eat their hands for the next ten years. Perhaps Inter would have won it anyway but Napoli had to at least lose it for the superiority of others and not for having declared to everyone that when the goal approaches, Napoli disappears from the field. It is a question of DNA. Spalletti has never won in Italy and yet he has had the opportunities. If you always come second, third or fourth there will be a reason. Spalletti did well, at times even very well, but in a championship it is not enough to do 2-3-4-5-6 months. Only the final result of May counts.
A waste for Napoli. The question is simple: if you don’t win when Juve doesn’t show up for the title fight and the Milanese lose a lot of points, when do you win the Scudetto? Never again. Milan will become more and more billionaire, Juventus will return sooner or later and Inter are a structured team. In all this the Americans, at Roma, will soon understand the game and they will grow too. The Italian properties are destined to end. Italian entrepreneurs, alone, can be in our Serie A and they must exist but they will be weaker and weaker for the fight at the top against the Americans, funds and Chinese. De Laurentiis has many faults. The faults of the Presidents are always greater than or equal to those of the Coaches and the players. Gattuso’s management was very bad, here with Spalletti he risks ending up even worse.
Meret is a problem for Napoli. We overestimated him in the days of Udine, then Udinese sent him off without ever actually seeing him with the Udinese shirt. There must have been a reason. Meret is not a top team player. Gattuso, last year, went to the clash with De Laurentiis. The President wanted him to play in Ospina’s place to enhance and sell him. Gattuso reminded him that between Ospina and Meret there were six worlds of difference. Meret is a decent goalkeeper for teams like Bologna, Turin, Genoa and Sampdoria. Spalletti’s fault was also to force plays with his feet from below, as if Ospina were in the goal. If you have Meret, who is not capable with his feet, you cannot play thinking you have Ospina in goal. Elementary and simple. The Neapolitans deserved another final and, at the end of the games, you will see that between Spalletti and Gattuso there will not have been so much difference, if not for the last day where the Campania players threw fourth place.“.
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