“We are paid to produce results. And we will try. There is no such thing as a strong team on paper, teams are many things together. We have to be good at making up for some limitations with personality and play”. Luciano Spalletti he has great confidence in his Napoli despite a summer of many changes.
"An important cycle has ended, with players who have made history and let's open another page together – he says in an interview with 'Corriere della Sera' - Il new Naples veers in the direction of the strong young people, in the downsizing of the engagements and in the philosophy of sustainabilityI feel around us skepticism, I'm sorry. Because we're doing our best to be ready. Thanks to a market which, within certain limits, is functional to our needs".
"Dybala it hasn't arrived, I hear here and there. The attempt was made by my company, then you have to stop when there are barriers – he revealed -. This should not make us feel inferior. All the top teams, and in addition to the Milan and the Juventus they were also added Roma e Fiorentina, have strengthened significantly. We are taking our path knowing that this will be an anomalous championship and therefore strange for everyone. The games are played on the pitch, not off it. Let's see, in the meantime the market is still long".
With Mertens (“He could have given us a big hand. But the company made him an offer and he didn’t accept. I stay out of these dynamics, and that’s right”), could arrive Breakers. “He is not one of my players but he is a guy who would have all the characteristics to give us a hand. Young, strong, versatile in all the roles of the attack, intelligent and above all polite. He has personality, and we have lost a bit of it in the transition from one cycle to the other. Let's see, with him we would be in the right direction. He would be the natural replacement for Mertens”.
Spalletti He also asks those who remained to take a step forward but above all he makes an appeal to the city: “I would like it if she became better at interpreting us: the passion for football is visceral, unique. But there are moments and moments and it's not that if you play a championship at high levels, also breaking the climate of depression that I found when I arrived, then if you don't win the championship you have done nothing, indeed for some you have failed. I was the first to cultivate the ambition to win, I raised the bar in my locker room to increase the self-esteem of the players. We managed to do great things, with almost half the team with expiring contracts”.
Article published on 5 August 2022 - 09:44
