hello, i’ve a question about napoli from this summer:
why de laurentis he took garcia has coach of napoli?
from the summer i read everyday a lot of comment, and heard a lot of people, about how wrong is garcia is as coach of napoli.
in fact the team is not performing well.
from a team that had win a scudetto, a strong team, why bring garcia of everyone knows he would not have been able to manage the napoli?
also, bayern bought a important player as kim and the club buy natan to replace him. No? he is not the same level of kim.
i don’t understand.
A bit long…
First of all, people’s rants are not relevant. People have been unhappy with the signing of Sarri, Spalletti and so on.
When Sarri struggled at the beginning, people wanted him out. He didn’t win but those seasons are still in the heart and eyes of every Napoli fan.
When Spalletti lost against Empoli (from 2-0 to 2-3 in 10 minutes) in his first season, a lot of people wanted him out. We know what happened next.
Often there’s no correlation between rants and reality.
The big problem with this season is that ADL underestimated the impact of the manager on this team. He thought that having won with such a big margin, we could set autopilot and land on another great season.
So when Spalletti (and Giuntoli) left in the summer and ADL had to look for a replacement he tried with some high profile manager but didn’t succeed (we have to consider that ADL makes extremely intricate contracts with many clauses that he uses to maximize the control he can have on the player or manager he is hiring, but this can lead to some issues with higher profiles). At this point he tried some secondary profile and here comes the trouble.
If you have listened to the pre-season interviews there was something off since the beginning because the impression was that he was really trying too hard to convince everyone (maybe including himself) that Garcia was the right choice. I had never seen a presentation of a new manager in the Capodimonte museum before and now that I think about it I should have known.
Everything was meaningless. ADL continued to refer to 433 as if any manager playing with 433 will do the same stuff. He wanted to go on the footprint of Spalletti’s tactics and since then there’s been a lot of problems on the communication layer. Every time some journalist asked about last season it looked like Garcia had not watched any match or studied last season tactics because he clearly has his pride to preserve and doesn’t want to be just a Spalletti’s copycat (or cosplayer 😂).
And I think there’s another problem also with the sporting director Meluso. He’s a good guy and I don’t have proof that he’s not the right guy (yet) but he seems a bit too soft to be able to counter the oppressive figure of ADL.