Former AC Milan coach Arrigo Sacchi has paid tribute to Napoli president Aurelio de Laurentiis.
Napoli are a game away from being confirmed as Serie A champions.
Sacchi said, "De Laurentiis believed in ideas and not in the power of money. He won the Scudetto with a very good budget, knowing well that many of his rivals have economic accounts, so to speak, complex.
"He spent much less than Juventus and Inter, investing in the one thing that costs nothing: the game. Maybe he will be a president not sympathetic to everyone but in a country where no one believes in ideas and where you always spend only haphazardly, he has always taken the right path. And now he collects the results of a project started with (Maurizio) Sarri.
"That's what I like: the fact that the Scudetto comes after the cut in hires. Like Milan a year ago. It was time, it is a sign for everyone. Churchill said 'Change is not the same as improving, but to improve you have to change'.
"Here is the courage that De Laurentiis had and that many should have. But this is an ancient country that, a Spanish friend of mine used to say, 'le gusta la antiguedad'."