President Aurelio De Laurentiis is ‘satisfied this Napoli crew is stronger than final season’ after profitable the Scudetto, and urges new guidelines for membership and worldwide soccer.
The Partenopei are again on high of the desk alongside AC Milan after away to earlier leaders Roma.
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Whereas on the lack of alternate options in his squad amid an harm disaster, and earlier than that insisted that expectations of following up the title success of 2024 had been too excessive, De Laurentiis takes a unique view.
De Laurentiis has excessive hopes for Napoli
Antonio Conte Aurelio De Laurentiis Napoli
“I’m satisfied that this Napoli crew is stronger than final season,”
“The brand new gamers should be made to fall in love with the jersey, however these setbacks allowed them to point out their capabilities. I’m satisfied we’ll proceed to have an amazing season, however we should additionally think about there are 20 groups, so we’ve received to respect the others too.
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“It’s going to be a captivating marketing campaign, we’re all up there.”
David Neres scored the profitable aim in opposition to Roma, his third in two video games, having been largely shelved till the harm disaster gave him an opportunity to shine on this new 3-4-2-1 formation.
“We had him final season, however seeing as we had been solely in a single competitors, there wasn’t the possibility to let everybody present what they might do,” defined De Laurentiis.
“This season with a number of tournaments, clearly we are able to have extra taking part in time for others too. Neres has already scored extra targets than all through final time period and we’re solely initially.”
Napoli received the Scudetto in 2023 after which plummeted down the desk the subsequent yr, then had been again on high in Conte’s first season.
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A brand new documentary was launched on that 2024-25 title-winning run, however which of the 2 victories was extra exhilarating for De Laurentiis?
“Emotion can’t be catalogued like that, it’s skilled within the second. Many consider love is an emotion, however I really feel it’s a excellent second and few handle to expertise or consider it.”
The Napoli President has publicly complained that FIFA, UEFA and worldwide groups should compensate golf equipment when gamers decide up severe accidents.
That is solely a part of his plans to rework the soccer panorama in future.
NAPLES, ITALY – JUNE 26: Antonio Conte new SSC Napoli head coach and Aurelio De Laurentiis SSC Napoli president throughout SSC Napoli new supervisor unveiling on June 26, 2024 in Naples, Italy. (Photograph by Francesco Pecoraro/Getty Photographs)
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“Soccer establishments are outdated, extremely outdated, and they’re solely thinking about holding onto energy, whereas we’re handled like merchandise to be exchanged beneath their supremacy.
“Soccer doesn’t simply belong to 3 or 4 nations, however to the entire world. We have to work out the place the issues lie for the monetary sustainability of the entire motion.
“For my part, we should always wipe the slate clear of all that’s outdated. There are all these laws and guidelines, we speak about being enterprise leaders, however we act like staff of a giant system the place solely two massive personalities are in cost.
“That appears unhappy, anachronistic, and unreal,” concluded De Laurentiis.