Napoli also passes on Inter (3-1). Spalletti’s farewell: “It’s all decided by now”
[ad_1]
Heart and heartbeat. Business and feelings. Flag and wallet. But how bipolar is our football. Always poised between emotion and planning, between strategy and the hypertrophic ego of its protagonists.
Let’s look at the story of Napoli, who also beat Inter yesterday (3-1). Every sensible person, after such a triumphant Scudetto, would say: let’s celebrate, enjoy it and think about the future. Winning team doesn’t change, they say. And instead the now secure divorce between Luciano Spalletti and Aurelio De Laurentiis, the coach and the president, is there for all to see, with said and unsaid worse than those between Totti and Ilary. In a blurred border between wounded pride and shop calculations. Between icy pecs and ungiven hugs. Between formal dinners and allusions to vitriol: «Freedom is a good that cannot be measured. You should never clip anyone’s wings as no one should do it like me» hisses the president De Laurentiis.
«I need boots, not wings» replies Spalletti, perhaps alluding to his love for the Tuscan countryside. «It’s all been decided by now, but we’re still waiting to say it» he reiterated after the victory over Inter.
Two roosters in a chicken coop, to stay in the countryside. Who go on a collision course, after reaching the summit, to the scorn of all the Neapolitans. De Laurentiis, despite being an excellent president, does not like those who take center stage away from him. Players can do it, idols like Maradona, but not coaches. He is an affective who pays attention to the point. Spalletti is the exact opposite: a Tuscan from Certaldo, stubborn, solitary, generous but also touchy if they don’t recognize what he believes in: work, humility, his undisputed ability to make those who coach play well. It is no coincidence that he only reached the Scudetto at the age of 64. It is no coincidence that he earns less (1.8 million) than many other more paraculi and less gifted coaches. More than any other money, Luciano wants gratitude, affection. The only thing that De Laurentiis, cold as a Siberian icicle, will never be able to give him.
And so many greetings: we loved each other little, but it doesn’t matter. At this point, plan B is triggered, the one in which Mourinho is the Special One: to leave, when you’re at the top. Leave a good memory and monetize. So there’s no risk of making a mistake, because repeating yourself is always difficult as Allegri teaches, always hovering between applause and criticism, between short-nosed victories and a show that, like Godot, always awaits him at Juve without ever seeing him.
Juve: today the new sentence
Perhaps there will be another penalty, yes. Very probable after the referral for the salary maneuver, the new line of sports investigation into the accounts of the Juventus club. Today the Federal Court of Appeal will issue the new sentence, which could compromise (perhaps completely) the hope of playing among the VIPs of European football. With an inevitable shortfall in cash: at least seventy million, which is not a small amount in the budget of a company guiltily overwhelmed by a storm where, as in all Italian legal proceedings, no one can figure it out anymore.
Inter falls in Naples
After 8 victories in a row, Inter is overtaken by a Napoli determined not to concede anything despite the scudetto already won. Especially to Inzaghi’s team, the only one in this tournament not to have succumbed to the Neapolitans. Inter can put forward two partial mitigating factors: the fact that they were left with ten players following an absurd expulsion of a lackluster Gagliardini and then the large turnover made by Inzaghi in view of the next matches (Wednesday’s final of the Italian Cup against Fiorentina; the Atalanta at San Siro on Saturday 27; Istanbul final against City on 10 June). If we add a reasonable drop in adrenaline after the double success in the Euro derby, the omelette is done. With Anguissa’s first goal, the Nerazzurri equalized through Lukaku. But a splendid left foot at the crossroads by Di Lorenzo, rounded off by a counter-attack concluded by Gaetano, ended the match. A tile for Inter: the race for the Champions League, with Milan fifth at only -2, is getting quite complicated. In fact, it is unlikely that Atalanta (-5 from Inter after a 3-1 win over Verona) would come to Milan just to admire the San Siro.
[ad_2]
Source link
