De Laurentiis has rewritten the hierarchies of the Serie A. Now it is Napoli to command, on the market and on the field, with the big names of the North forced to chase and limited by errors of the past, strategies and confusion
Thirteen days to invest 50 million euros, get out of the emergency of the most important attacker (serious) and restore the hierarchies. Here’s what Aurelio De Laurentiis’ Napoli did between 18 and 31 August: The arrival of Rasmus Hojlund to replace Lukaku, outside for at least three months, is the signal that Italian football is no longer the first one. Napoli commands and it will be so for a while, given that the competition must reorganize, it needs to repair the errors of the past or must measure itself with Made strategies in the USA of properties.
Outside Lukaku, inside an attacker taken from Manchester United’s strength and who in his passage in Serie A with Atalanta showed that he had enormous qualities, then not confirmed in the Premier League. De Laurentiis has detached a 50 million euro check, the formula affects only the accountants of the two sides, and guaranteed to Danish a salary as a top of the Neapolitan squad.
It is no coincidence that Hojlund ended up at Napoli in less than two weeks after being approached Milan for a month as an alternative to Vlahovic, before falling back on Nkunku. On the one hand, a club condemned by the property to the pull and extensive spring, on the other a company with the accounts in place where the garment decides and the management, slender, performs. So Naples is a candidate to give continuity to a historical cycle, which began in 2023 With the revolution delivered to Spalletti and immediately transformed into the gold of a Scudetto, and then continued by Conte after the horrible vintage of the many mistakes and benches waltz.
The others chase, who closely and who having to use binoculars to observe the Neapolitan plaque. Inter are equipped to support the competition with Conte, but the summer has also explained how the margins of maneuver of Marotta and aidinside the frame designed by the Oaktree bottom, are different from those of Manna and Conte with ADL. Result, super competitive pink but to be verified and, in any case, far from that revolution that was legitimate to expect by changing the coach and having to dispose of the poisons of an extraordinary season that ended up very badly.
There Juventus It is grappling with the company to correct the errors of the past. Comolli must first dispose of the redundancies and then reconstruct; The bianconeri are at the umpteenth year zero of their recent history. At Continassa there is no too many money at this moment and there are the stakes of UEFA, the same ones who narrow the first Rome by Gasperini. The market of Milan It was a SUDOKU for experts, difficult to decode between divestments over 200 million euros, multiple purchases, contrasting visions and module changes in the course of work. The rest does not exist or almost.
The Scudetto grid puts Napoli in front of everyone, but does not tell everything about the historical overtaking of the great south compared to the Northern teams. He commands De Laurentiis, who understood it and is investing. Conte had, in order of role, Milinkovic Savic (21 million euros), Marianucci (9), Beukema (30), Gutierrez (19), De Bruyne (free but with Top engagement), Lang (25), Lucca (35) and Hojlund (50). Hand calculator make 190 million euros, only partially covered by Osimhen’s exit and other less important ones.
Sometimes at 150 last summer, they bring Napoli to the level of the multinationals of Europe. It is not an optical illusion but the photograph of the current reality. It had never happened in the history of Italian football, not even at the time of Ferlaino and Maradona or Rome and Lazio in the nineties. Take note, between Turin and Milan.
