Chelsea coach Maurizio Sarri is on the receiving end once again as Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis takes another dig at him.
Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis spoke at the sidelines of the FIGC presidency announcement, in which Gabriel Gravina was elected to the role.
De Laurentiis spoke on a number of topics, including Carlo Ancelotti and and his former coach of his club Maurizio Sarri, who left the club to join Chelsea in the summer.
The President had this to say about his club's current coach Carlo Ancelotti.
“I wanted him absolutely, maybe someone had misunderstood his arrival, I heard some rather obvious and rude phrases.
"They had said that Ancelotti had arrived in Naples for retirement, but he is a great coach who has won everything and can not be blamed for this: between us there have been sympathy and clarity, it took us five minutes to make a contract on which there have never been doubts, neither on one side nor the other I had given him 9-10 games to settle down, but it seems to me he was less wrong than I had given them.”
On the chances of Napoli winning the Scudetto this season Laurentis said.
“Everything is possible, just a few missteps of Juventus and we are there. Napoli has started a new course, I always speak of three years and this year, with the use of all players, will be fine. With Champions League we have to deal with an infernal circle, but we hope to have capacity and luck.”
When it was turn to talk about his club's former coach Maurizio Sarri, Aurelio take a little hit at the current Chelsea coach.
“I no longer look at Sarri, he is a great coach and I wish him his way to England, he gave what he could to Napoli and we did not win anything with him, but in life there are those who play for himself and who for the function for which he was hired: with this, I think I have said everything.”
On Naples: “You confuse some fringes of fans with the collective mood of the city: I love Naples, my father brought me to love her since I was four years old.”
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