(ANSA) – NAPLES, MAY 16 – The occasion is the presentation of the next summer training camp, but the attention of the Italian owner De Laurentiiis is entirely on the season at the end of the credits. “I knew that this year we wouldn’t be fighting for the championship again, it was normal.
But there was within me the desire not to trigger internal wars within the club, which are not very satisfying for everyone, and therefore I accepted to experience the great satisfaction of the scudetto and also to experience this year’s miserable year.” A failure which according to de Laurentiis “also serves to understand that from March of last championship, when we conceded 4 goals against Milan, the roots of this year were already there”.
We retrace the stages of an unlucky season: “In this season we can think what to say I was wrong to send coach Garcia away? Who knows, mistakes are admitted at work, only those who don’t work don’t make mistakes. I took on all of them the responsibilities even if they did not depend on me. Now I close a chapter and open another that we must write and we will do it with the same attention that allowed Napoli to be the only one to have a place in the cups in Europe for 14 years with continuation.
If we don’t go for a year it won’t be a trauma, we will breathe, oxygenate the brain and we will move forward with great passion.
Because if you work with passion you don’t lose, if you work because ‘s’adda campà’, you don’t go anywhere”. De Laurentiis underlined that in addition to the new coach and the new sporting director Manna “many other figures will also arrive in the Napoli club”.
“The choices made so far – he said – are the result of scouting, of the operators who have always been the same, if the choices made this year were not perfect, it happens. I put several tens of millions on the table, we bought a January new players, not just loans. I didn’t stop even when I realized that the season was compromised and I could stop.
I continue non-stop to also understand the opportunities and mistakes. I alone made the choice of Ngonge and I take all the responsibility for better or for worse, the other players were chosen by the club, which has a team of experts working on them.” (ANSA).