Conte and Napoli towards the farewell after the Scudetto. De Laurentiis will not force the technician to force and ready the alternative: Allegri. That’s why Conte will leave, despite the contract until 2027
The love story between Antonio Conte and Napoli goes towards the end. The triumph in the Scudetto sprint, conquered by keeping behind Inzaghi’s Inter, and the existence of a contract until 2027 are not enough elements to continue the relationship between the coach who gave the Neapolitan fans the fourth tricolor of history and the president Aurelio De Laurentiis. A matter of views and perspectives, with Conte who does not deny the friendship and the esteem for ADL but knows that repeating will be very hard and that this season has been, as well as winning, very self -regulating. A tear amplified by the January market, that of the sale of Kvaratskhelia without a substitute for height, lived by Lecce with enormous annoyance.
As if his goals, winning, and of the company, returning to the Champions League after the blood bath of the post -scudetary vintage, were parallel and not coinciding. The triumph party has only hidden the crack for a few hours. Not too much if you judge from the coldness of the embrace granted by Conte to De Laurentiis in the field, even if the words were much sweeter and the friendship and personal esteem was also consolidated in the subsequent dinner in Ischia, the family present, to celebrate the 76th birthday of De Laurentiis.
Conte and Napoli, the stages of farewell
Another, much more important, is the one that awaits the two protagonists and that will serve to summarize and decide how to move. The starting point is that Antonio Conte is linked to Napoli from a contract until 30 June 2027 in which it is not said exist exit clauses. De Laurentiis, however, has already clearly said that it considers the question from a point of view not only legal and that the coaches cannot be held in a place where they do not feel comfortable
Words that have been interpreted as a kind of acknowledgment of the impossibility of convincing Conte to continue on the Napoli bench despite the desire to invest on the market. The option De Bruyne It is more than concrete – the Belgian midfielder of a world -class that he said goodbye to Manchester City after a decade of victories – and the ruthless competition at Inter on David Confirm how there are budgets and clear ideas. Conte, however, reason only in the face of the prospect of being able to win and it is not said that, having to return to struggle even in the European cups, only a few intervention is enough to build a winning squad next year.
In addition, there is Juventus’ suggestion that attracts Conte since the day of tumultuous farewell in July 2014. So far Turin had rejected him, now the conditions have been created for a sensational return home, driving a team back from a very negative season that must be rebuilt and relaunched. A scenario that Lecce coach likes, as many joints of his career show.
Naples Scudetto, the images of the party
Naples, the future on the bench is called Allegri
De Laurentiis has understood for at least a month that farewell is a concrete scenario, with or without a championship. Doing it as Vincenti can make the ending of the story less bitter and the error made with Spalletti in 2023 taught the President that the contracts are not everything. That’s why he cared about talking to Massimiliano Allegri: Not a bet, but the man of the Scudetti (6) and of the great experience of knowing how to hold the scene alone within sports and corporate projects where a firm hand is needed.
Allegri is ready to return after a sabbatical year, he is also in the short list of Milan but De Laurentiis has been carrying out by proposing a two -year -old two -year -old two -year to convince him to collect Conte’s legacy. The team is strong and will be made even deeper and more qualitative, Allegri can return to Italian football from the main door and perhaps repeat the experience made at Juventus in 2014 when, arriving after Antonio, he immediately won by also taking away the whim of climbing until the Champions League final in Berlin.
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