more even division of TV rights would be steps in the right direction.

Nope…

Top Serie A club currently get LESS money than a random bottom EPL club. With identical distribution you’d cripple even more the top earners while not helping much the smaller clubs.

It’s like comparing a king size pizza to a bakery “pizzetta” If you cut the small one in 20 identical slices nobody will be fed properly and those gorging on the XXL pizza will still eat more, even if they got the smallest slice.

There’s simply not enough money to redistribute fairly. And honestly it shouldn’t be the case anyway.

Nobody pays to watch Cremonese - Empoli or Salernitana - Lecce. But weaken Juve, Inter or Milan Away and see how the league will sink.

Oh well, one day you may want/need to get rid of some stuff… And good luck selling a 9 Van Basten or 69 Bunga Bunga shirt.

custom one with a club legend

Please DON’T!

Current season jersey with the name of a legend is a terrible choice under every possible account. It’s historically inaccurate/wrong and it makes the shirt worthless for future resale should you decide to get rid of it.

A current player might one day leave in a less than amicable way (see Bernardeschi, Chiesa, Vlahovic) but the shirt will still have value, if not for rabid fans at least for collectors and completists. (Say, a few days back I saw a Napoli Higuain shirt sold for 100 bucks…)

Blank is the best way for wearability and it’s future proof.

Milito and Palacio

No.

A 25 years old with a bunch of average seasons in Serie B and an unremarkable outing in Serie A.

Just a random POTM in an unstable league.

I forgot Errra. Great job with Iceland too in the past.

simple kit

There’s a simple kit with nice little touches, and there’s “let’s give them the 2023 plain template” simple.

Sadly this falls straight into the latter.

Nike’s 1996 and the ill-fated Kappa kombat were both simple yet nice. Diadora too had plain but pleasing kits.

Maybe it’s the 3 stripes and the huge logo, but this Adidas shirt looks lazy and cheap af

Heck, I’d take Legea, Eye, Zeus or even Givova over a shitty Adidas teamwear model.

So it’s a standard template, straight out of the catalog?

As if it’s for Cyprus or Moldova…

FFS, Macron did a great job with smaller nations, creating bespoke designs, and a global manufacturer like Adidas won’t even bother to come up with a tiny bit of customized details?

Apparently it was picked as the main color after WWII when football resumed in Italy.

It was one of the many color schemes used by the various incarnation of Salernitana throughout the complicated 1920s when the club went through some mergers.

Because he’s an egomaniac AND a cheapskate!

Strengthening the squad in order to firmly establish it as a title challenger would have required a lot of money and a stable vision.

Neither of which are in his mind, as he doesn’t want to (can’t) spend insane money and he’s unable to let the manager work without interfering or putting his foot in his mouth on the media.

Selling Kvara or Osimhen would have been the smart option, but without a clear idea of who bring in to replace them it’d have been an even bigger risk and mistake.

Not every half known prospect will turn out great… So the ideal option would have been keeping them and IMPROVING the squad instead of weakening it and signing a bunch of backups.

Unpopular opinion: it’s not Garcia’s fault.

Fans are being, as usual, completely unreasonable and bipolar about a very common and predictable “sophomore slump”.

Let’s face it: Napoli winning the Scudetto last year was an exceptional occurrence. A mix of the team overperforming and all their rivals having an underwhelming season. Akin to what led the likes of Verona, Sampdoria, Lazio and Roma to win in the last 40 years.

But the squad was by any means good or deep enough to sustain a second run with more expectations and with the added pressure of having to deliver in CL as well.

Then DeLa sold Kim, replaced him with another semi-obscure player instead of strengthening the squad with players of a HIGHER caliber. And as if the lack of proper top-level signings wasn’t enough, Osimhen has been hampered by injuries and distracted by transfer rumours and off-the-pitch shenanigans that an actual Top Club would have nipped in the bud or avoided completely (I mean, the blunder by the social media manager was amateur hour stuff).

Then it also happened that most opponents got Kvara figured out. A poor run of form, an injury and the end of the “surprise effect” have turned last season’s breakthrough prospect into a known quantity who is struggling to be as devastating. And at times he started to remember Mr. Tiraggir’ Insigne, aka a one-trick pony who gets less useful the more he plays.

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So yeah… Garcia isn’t Guardiola, but the squad is unbalanced AF, lacks quality in some areas and is probably already satisfied by last year’s triumph to have the same hunger for success and willingness to work as hard.

It happens a lot when the club, the players, the board and the fandom don’t have an established winning culture that resets goals and expectations every season.

In a way, it happened even to post-Treble Inter (a whole different level) when Mou left and Moratti kept all the Heroes, on a higher wage, instead of cashing out on those who still had market and bringing in younger and ambitious prospects or more established players with a chip on their shoulder. The fall was swift and spectatcular, no matter who was in the dugout.

It’s a matter of mentality, not of tactics.