SSC Napoli 2024/25: ormai è fatta per lo scudetto

[PiemonteBianconero 2941]

Secondo me adesso sbragano definitivamente.  

[galakie 3299]

1 ora fa, SICILIANO ha scritto:

Avranno la pancia piena per qualche decennio.

..adesso il trollazio....arriva a negarlo

[Mooch74 658]

you're shits

 

How a De Laurentiis email led to Napoli's collapse in just 11 months

  Napoli owner Aurelio De Laurentiis oversaw a historic season in which his club won a first league title since the 1980s. Less than a year later, the club are in disarray after a series of baffling decisions. Andrea Staccioli/Insidefoto/LightRocket via Getty Images A trophyless season beckons for Napoli, just a year after dominating Serie A and reaching the quarterfinal of the Champions League. And when the regret fades for not overcoming an injury-hit Barcelona in the round of 16 -- they had their shot and didn't take it, though maybe if Jesper Lindstrom's header had been on target, and if Pau Cubarsí's challenge on Victor Osimhen had been punished with a penalty, who knows? -- they may reflect on what happened to their club over the past 11 months. Maybe, one day, it will make a Harvard Business School case study and you'll be able to pick one up here. Except it will be a compendium of worst practices, rather than best practices -- a string of don'ts instead of do's.

This is the story of how a single, ill-advised certified email started a chain of events that led to the destruction of the greatest Napoli side since the days of Diego Armando Maradona. And all in less than a year.

 

Flash back to mid-April of last season. Napoli have just been knocked out of the quarterfinals of the Champions League, but it's OK: they're running away with the Serie A title. Osimhen is scoring a ton of goals, Georgian sensation Khvicha Kvaratskhelia has been dubbed "Kvaradona" (without charges of blasphemy) and coach Luciano Spalletti is the toast of Serie A.

Spalletti is a proud and somewhat eccentric man. His contract is up on June 30, but everyone assumes his extension is a slam dunk, and with a hefty raise too. He built this team, he loves the club and the city, he's settled and happy there. All he needs to do is sit down with club president Aurelio De Laurentiis and work it out.

Except ... De Laurentiis has a flash of inspiration.

Napoli have the unilateral option to extend Spalletti's deal by a season on the same salary. In real terms, it doesn't mean much -- no club, in any sport, is going to keep a coach against his will -- but maybe it can be an opening gambit in the negotiation? You assume that's what De Laurentiis was thinking as he (or his assistants tasked with his emails) hit "send" on the certified missive informing Spalletti in dry legalese that his option year had been exercised.

Rarely has anything backfired so badly.

  Maybe it would have worked with someone else, but not Spalletti who, to put it mildly, was offended. He's not a Lexus whose lease can be extended. Yeah, De Laurentiis is his boss, but he's a human being. They have a relationship. Surely this is something you discuss face to face? Instead, this was the equivalent of your significant other giving you an unsigned Hallmark card on your anniversary.

Spalletti resigned. (Before you feel too sorry for him, consider that he did land another job nearly three months later: he's now the Italy coach.) With director of football Cristiano Giuntoli also moving on -- he left for Juventus, though in his case, unlike Spalletti, he wanted to go -- De Laurentiis was left on his own, scrambling for a replacement. After several coaches turned him down, De Laurentiis appointed French coach Rudi Garcia, who was last seen coaching Cristiano Ronaldo at Saudi Arabia's Al Nassr.

Garcia had big shoes to fill, but there was reason to be hopeful. Napoli had only lost one starter, defender Kim Min-jae, who joined Bayern Munich. As often happens, Giuntoli's role in building the side was minimised, with plenty opining that he was more of a "coordinator" than a talent-spotter or negotiator anyway. There was plenty of talent: the side was arguably "plug-and-play," while Osimhen and Kvaratskhelia were only going to get better.

Twelve games into the season, with the club fourth in the table but 10 points off the Serie A lead, Garcia was fired on Nov. 14. He wasn't popular with some players, and as De Laurentiis himself would later point out, when the owner told him he was screwing things up, Garcia had the temerity to ask that he be allowed to do his job. "So I told him to f--- off," De Laurentiis said.

  More managers turned Napoli down, and De Laurentiis made another disastrous appointment. To be fair, few were surprised this one turned out badly.

That same day, he called on Walter Mazzarri, who had managed the club more than a decade earlier and led the club to third- and second-place finishes ... except Mazzarri had come up short in each of his next four jobs, getting fired early in all of them. What's more, he had enjoyed his success playing an entirely different scheme (with a three-man defence), and Napoli were built to play with a back four.

You won't be surprised to learn that Napoli went from bad to worse under Mazzarri. How much worse? When he was fired on Feb. 19, Napoli had slipped to 10th place and were 27 points off the top of the table -- also just 16 above the relegation zone. Napoli were also humiliated at home in the Coppa Italia round of 16 by Frosinone, losing 0-4.

De Laurentiis splashed cash on four players in January -- defender Pasquale Mazzocchi, midfielders Hamed Traoré and Leander Dendoncker, forward Cyril Ngonge -- in an attempt to turn things around. (It hasn't worked yet, with Ngonge and Dendoncker yet to start a single game.) But, as if to make up for it, and in what looks like a fit of pique and pettiness, he ordered the club to leave midfielder Piotr Zielinski out of the squad for the knockout phase of the Champions League.

Zielinski, 29, had been a Napoli mainstay for the previous six seasons, but he had rejected both a move to Saudi Arabia and a contract extension, choosing instead to become a free agent next June. We can't know for certain whether this was the club's way of "punishing" him for wanting to leave on a free transfer -- and, obviously, it doesn't mean that they would have overcome Barcelona with Zielinski in the team -- but it's hard not to put two and two together. Especially since the Poland international has been a regular all season long, starting 20 of Napoli's 28 league games and all six Champions League group stage matches.

Back to Mazzarri. Things got so bad that De Laurentiis felt the need to fire him just two days before the first leg of Napoli's clash with Barcelona last month.

Whom did De Laurentiis get to replace Mazzarri? Perhaps convinced that managers in a job are going to be better than those who are unemployed, he opted for a guy named Francesco Calzona, the manager of the Slovakia national team. Prior to his appointment, Calzona had logged exactly zero minutes as a head coach in professional club football, but he had been at Napoli before as an assistant and he came cheap since he was going to perform double duties, having retained his gig as Slovakia boss.

Calzona did not set pulses racing when he was announced as interim coach, possibly because few knew who he was and because his body of work with Slovakia is so limited. (In any case, coaching a national team is a very different skill set). That said, he did qualify Slovakia for the Euros by finishing ahead of Luxembourg, Iceland, Bosnia and Liechtenstein -- make of that what you will.

What makes all of this so frustrating is that for most of the past decade, Napoli had been a model club, balancing the books and punching way above their weight. And much of this was down to De Laurentiis' savvy as a businessman and as a football operator. He can be outspoken, aggressive and needlessly rude -- on Tuesday, he reacted to the news that Maurizio Sarri, one of his former coaches, had resigned his job at Lazio by saying: "It's too easy to just quit. ... Those who quit are losers!" -- but when it comes to running a football club, he knows what he's doing.

Or, at least, he did ... until about 11 months ago.

 

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https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/39723352/how-de-laurentiis-email-led-napoli-collapse-just-11-months

 

 

Se il colpo di testa di Lindstronz, se avessero dato il rigore su Osim*****...

 

e mai:

 

Se il Barcellona fosse stato meno frettoloso, il primo tempo sarebbe finito 6-1

 

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[mamozio 1614]

Il 13/3/2024 alle 16:57 , Suma Ha Paura ha scritto:

Senza [mention=32124]mamozio[/mention] io non mi diverto

 

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[TurinGoeba1897 10402]

Declinozio

 

Devono tornare a giocare a Gela 

[SICILIANO 4683]

9 ore fa, TurinGoeba1897 ha scritto:

Declinozio

 

Devono tornare a giocare a Gela 

Io mi sono visto allo stadio un bell'Acireale-Napoli di serie C con doppietta di Calaiò. Era piena estate, la prima partita di campionato

[mamozio 1614]

16 ore fa, TurinGoeba1897 ha scritto:

Declinozio

 

Devono tornare a giocare a Gela 

Se magara. Questi beccheranno la champions grazie al quinto posto, e avranno tanti soldi per fare mercato

[Gelone 13912]

1 ora fa, mamozio ha scritto:

Se magara. Questi beccheranno la champions grazie al quinto posto, e avranno tanti soldi per fare mercato

E vinceranno tanti scudetti, champions e pure qualche ryder cup

[mamozio 1614]

Il 16/3/2024 alle 03:07 , Gelone ha scritto:

E vinceranno tanti scudetti, champions e pure qualche ryder cup

Spero di no

[Gelone 13912]

5 ore fa, mamozio ha scritto:

Spero di no

Si la Ryder cup è un pò complicata

[mamozio 1614]

37 minuti fa, Gelone ha scritto:

Si la Ryder cup è un pò complicata

In effetti

[torino juventina2 8215]

Il 16/3/2024 alle 01:27 , mamozio ha scritto:

Se magara. Questi beccheranno la champions grazie al quinto posto, e avranno tanti soldi per fare mercato

 

Sono più vicini alla parte destra della classifica che al quinto posto. 

Ormai la Champions è andata  

Spiaze 

 

[Ca$a 5123]

Cos’è riuscito a distruggere adl in pochi mesi è incredibile 

[Suma Ha Paura 3190]

Cos’è riuscito a distruggere adl in pochi mesi è incredibile 

Lunga vita al pappone

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[filippo83 2155]

Il 15/3/2024 alle 08:45 , TurinGoeba1897 ha scritto:

Declinozio

 

Devono tornare a giocare a Gela 

Vista… finì 0a0 

[mamozio 1614]

Il 18/3/2024 alle 02:57 , torino juventina2 ha scritto:

 

Sono più vicini alla parte destra della classifica che al quinto posto. 

Ormai la Champions è andata  

Spiaze 

 

Se vincheno con l’atalanta nun penz. Con il quinto posto cl è ancora possibile

[Alex Michel Omar 513]

Il 20/3/2024 alle 21:58 , mamozio ha scritto:

Se vincheno con l’atalanta nun penz. Con il quinto posto cl è ancora possibile

Il bello è che non vorrei che il quinto posto servisse a noi...

[Ca$a 5123]

Il Napoli non aderirà alla campagna antirazzista di faccia della lega calcio la prossima settimana.

Fanno benissimo. 
se non altro qualcuno ancora non presta il fianco alla Marotta league

[Bradipo76 36614]

Il 27/3/2024 alle 06:46 , Ca$a ha scritto:

Il Napoli non aderirà alla campagna antirazzista di faccia della lega calcio la prossima settimana.

Fanno benissimo. 
se non altro qualcuno ancora non presta il fianco alla Marotta league

 

Sono dei banali paraculi. Quando gli hanno ridato i punti dello 0-3 a tavolino in periodo covid non si sono indignati  

[Alex Michel Omar 513]

Il 28/3/2024 alle 15:19 , Bradipo76 ha scritto:

 

Sono dei banali paraculi. Quando gli hanno ridato i punti dello 0-3 a tavolino in periodo covid non si sono indignati  

sono lote come dicono loro

[Marv 7658]

Cosa scarteranno i napolesi domani a fine pranzo:

 

 

[iosonogobbo 4189]

Solo noi potevamo perdere con questi impresentabili, regalando loro l'unica gioia di una stagione grama.

[mamozio 1614]

35 minuti fa, iosonogobbo ha scritto:

Solo noi potevamo perdere con questi impresentabili, regalando loro l'unica gioia di una stagione grama.

Se ci si magna 4 gol fatti, ma fatti fatti proprio , è sicuro che poi perdi. 

[ampeg 5062]

dei 3 allenatori a libro paga di Defognentiis, Garcia resta al momento quello con la media punti migliore

 

Rudi in questo momento

 

[Suma Ha Paura 3190]

Pasquetta intossicata: godo.

Casatiello e pastiera avranno un sapore amaro...
@mamozio

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