Napoli is preparing to experience a decisive summer after the farewell of Antonio Conte, destined to leave a legacy of a competitive team and a winning mentality that has profoundly changed the Azzurri environment. Aurelio De Laurentiis is already working to identify the new coach who will have to lead the club in its centenary year, with the aim of remaining at the top of the championship and also relaunching itself in the Champions League, considered the main limitation of Conte's management.
Il nome più concreto resta quello di Vincenzo Italiano
The coach will meet Bologna in the next few days to take stock of the future, but a possible call from the Azzurri could change the scenarios. The president has followed the rossoblù coach since his time at Spezia and has appreciated his aggressive and spectacular football for years, based on the 4-3-3 and 4-2-3-1 formations, systems considered ideal for enhancing the team's current personnel.
Incontro tra Italiano e De Laurentiis
A very secret meeting is taking place between the president and Italiano, in a location far from the Filmauro offices. Somewhere in the beating heart of the eternal city the future of Naples is being decided, which seems to lead to the now almost former Bologna. Talks with Napoli for a contract until 2029 are at an advanced stage. With the Emilian team without Europe, going back to imagining themselves on a Champions League night will certainly not leave him indifferent.
Occhio a Massimiliano Allegri
For many Neapolitan fans, Allegri has the exact face of the enemy: he was there on the Juve bench when Sarri's Napoli reached 91 points but did not win and he was also there when Pjianic was not sent off by the too close Orsato in Inter-Juve on the evening in which the former Italian coach spoke of "Scudetto lost in the hotel". In those years the blue team enchanted with its harmonious, almost musical football, while the perfect antithesis was Allegri's pragmatism: the "short face", victory as the only horizon, the result above all aesthetics.
De Laurentiis and Allegri are old friends: it was the Italian president who also told of a chat in the past to bring him to Naples. And Max is also linked to director Giovanni Manna, with whom he shared years at Juventus. And then Allegri has a respectable CV, with five championships at the helm of Juve, inherited from Conte, and one with Milan.