Why Napoli won’t allow Spalletti to be in the national team

Aurelius de Laurentiispresident of Naplesassured this Tuesday that if there is to be an Italian Football Federation (FIGC). Luciano Spalletti As the new coach of the ‘azzurro’, he must pay the clause of 3.2 million euros that prevents the former coach of the Neapolitan team from signing for any other team this season.

“It is not a question of money, but of principles, which is not the only concern Naplesbut throughout the Italian football system, which must shed its novice attitude to face the challenges of looking at compliance with the rules of companies, public limited companies, the market”, wrote DeLaurentiis In a statement on the website of Naples.

The FIGC likes Spallettiwho became the Italian champion Naples last season, as the new coach after the unexpected resignation of Roberto Mancini last Sunday, with Euro 2024 less than a year away, and much of the media expected that DeLaurentiis and FIGC reached an agreement to avoid paying the clause.

“After the avalanche of abstract considerations appearing in many media, carried out by authorized commentators, I think it is necessary to clarify the matter. Spalletti, related to his possible commitment as coach of the Italian national football team”, began the Neapolitan president.

In his note, Di Laurentiis said that “Spalletti, despite having the last year of his contract in Naples, after winning the ‘scudetto’, expressed the desire to take a period of detachment from teaching activity because he was ‘too tired’. In gratitude for the job done, I didn’t blink even if I could have asked him to honor the contract.”

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“Hearing the voices and feelings of millions of fans of Naples feeling a deep bond with the coach of the league champion team, by giving him the possibility of not fulfilling his contract, I asked for guarantees on the fulfillment of this sabbatical period, putting a penalty in case his promise failed”, he explains about the clause.

Referring to FIGC, De Laurentiis confirms that “the most surprising thing to me is that a few weeks after two very important matches for the national team, we experienced the resignation of the coach Roberto Mancini” and points out “two main considerations: you don’t know how to maintain relations with your collaborators, prompting them to resign” and “there are not enough legal instruments to maintain them, which determines compliance with signed contract also by providing specific sanctions. “.

“And if the choice is right Spalletti, a great coach with 25 years of experience at a high level, who announced the best football in Europe last season, offering him a salary of 3 million net for three years, we cannot stop -aakala (paying on behalf of the coach) million gross per year to release him from his contractual restriction,” a “commitment not only to Naples but with all its millions of fans. It’s incoherent.”

The leader concluded that “for Naples three million is certainly not a lot, and for Aurelio DeLaurentiis is less”, but as long as the ‘normal’ is allowed to be ‘repeated’, the football system cannot progress and the cases of ‘Spalletti’ will continue to exist, because the ‘authorised’ commentators who do not know how to manage a company in a healthy way continue to ‘express themselves.

Mancini, who resigned in surprise on Sunday, confirmed on Tuesday that his resignation was due to differences with the president of FIGC, Gabriele Gravinathat he does not want to remain in the management of the team,.

“I just need a signal, he didn’t give it to me. The truth is he doesn’t want me to stay, and it’s been like that for months,” the former coach said in several interviews, who is very hurt that he “killed” his decision and ensures that he leaves the team “25 days before the next game, not three”.