Rudi Garciaformer coach of Napleshe returned to speak to Carre of his parenthesis in Campania, attacking everyone, starting with his successor Walter Mazzarri: “He has no class, he never thanked me for the points I gave him and for the fact that by winning just one match he would have gone to the Champions League round of 16. I also remember his anything but elegant interview in which he said how he would make the team play Napoli. Interview he gave when I was still the coach.”
What did you think when Napoli’s offer arrived?
“I knew I was taking a risk by going to a club that had won the championship. I don’t usually go to teams where I can’t do better. But it was Napoli, it was Serie A. The players subconsciously thought they would do it again exactly like the year before , but it doesn’t work that way.”
Had he asked about purchases?
“I wanted a defender, Aguerd, and a powerful midfielder. Prospective players were taken and it is no coincidence that they have now been loaned out. I wanted them to renew Osimhen and Zielinski. This year they invested a lot in a defender (Good morning ed.) and they took a midfielder like McTominay.”
Do you have anything to say about De Laurentiis?
“The real coup would have been to leave me. That way he would have qualified for the Champions League, instead of finishing tenth. Maybe he said those things because he realized he was a bit of an idiot. He did it to cover up some mistakes. I thought to work with a gentleman, instead he turned out to be someone who gets involved in things that aren’t his job. I paid for telling him to stay in his place. He wanted me to let one player play for 45 minutes, others in the second half sixty years old I didn’t accept. De Laurentiis understands cinema, but not football. When I arrived everyone wanted to leave, the players complained about being paid little. I tried to motivate the environment they didn’t accept the substitution. It would have been right to say that the objective was to qualify for the Champions League.”