How do you plan to replace Kvaratskhelia? This is one of the questions asked in the press conference Antonio Contecoach of Naples that on the eve of the match againstHellas Verona – match valid for the 20th matchday of Serie A – he responded like this: “I don’t know, honestly I haven’t seen profiles that can replace him. It’s too fresh a thing, a bolt from the blue. Today I’m very focused on Verona and I also want to transfer focus to the boys because today the most important thing is not purchases or sales. Neither exits nor entrances, but tomorrow’s match. They are three points: we have to put hay in the farm because it is too important for us. They have not been done ratings because Kvara today is a Napoli player. Then we’ll see tomorrow, the day after or the 31st. It’s inevitable that the situation will be monitored: it’s right to leave the ball to the club, to the player and his entourage. I did what I had to do. I’ve done too much…”
In another passage Conte added: “Personally I feel a great disappointment: I spent six months working with him, making him feel at the center of the project. And even the existing contract had to be renewed and instead after six months we went back to the beginning. For my part, there is great disappointment. It means that I too have not been so incisive in convincing the two parties to move forward together. Today I find myself at a point where I have to take a step back, I cannot keep those who do not want to stay in chains today. I did it this summer, I had six months of time to try to convince the parties to find a solution, but that’s how it went.”
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