Napoli president De Laurentiis furious with new Italy coach Spalletti

Football
26 Aug 2023 • 7:43 PM MYT
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Napoli president Aurelio de Laurentiis has hit out at new Italy coach Luciano Spalletti.

De Laurentiis is angry seeing Spalletti take the Italy job without FIGC meeting the 3m agreed in his Napoli contract.

The lawyers are discussing it and I won't interfere. Spalletti told me: 'I'm very tired, I need a sabbatical to cultivate the land'. So I let him go. But only he knows what was going through his head," snapped De Laurentiis.

Napoli doesn't numb or hurt me. It kisses me. And I adore it. The most beautiful image is when I walk away by the sea, I see it progressively further away and I have the impression that it embraces me.

The transition from film to football was neither difficult nor traumatic but interesting, and when things are interesting, they also become easy.

I was lucky enough to work my way up through the ranks in a family that allowed me to get to know all the components of the audiovisual industry, to become an entrepreneur and gain courage, so when I took over Napoli, I was convinced that I would quickly learn the new mechanisms."