Salernitana, 48 hours after his exemption, Nicola returns to the bench. “I’ll tell you what happened”

From David Nicola to… David Nicholas. The exemption of the Turin coach lasted less than 48 hours, which the Salernitana he had relieved of his duties on Monday, the day after the very heavy defeat (8-2) in Bergamo against Atalanta. After having tested various coaches (D’Aversa, Iachini, Di Francesco) and having almost reached an agreement with Leonardo Semplici, the president of the granata Daniel Iervolino he backtracked and called Nicola back to the bench.

The pressing of the players

It would have been the pressing of the players to convince the patron to retrace his steps and to rely again on the coach who arrived in the running season a year ago and starred in a sensational salvation. Salernitana is sixteenth in the classics with 18 points, +9 on the safety zone, on Saturday at 18 they will face Napoli at the Arechi.

Nicholas’ story

With a long post on Facebook Nicholas he recounted what happened in the last few hours: “I’ll tell you the truth. Yesterday I received a phone call from President Iervolino who, with his always amiable and kind manner, explained to me the reasons for his decision, which he took with bitterness but that was supposed to mark the discontinuity after the very bad match in Bergamo against Atalanta. I immediately made a mea culpa, assuming all the responsibility for an inadequate performance and the consequent heavy defeat. Because I believe in this team as well as in the men who make it up , just as I believe in the great club he has behind him. I asked the president with all my strength to review the exemption provision, knowing that I was touching the strings of a human soul that has a deep sensitivity to understand and strongly wants to build a different kind of football Because I love Salerno and I blindly believe in this project”.

“‘Stories of men who do great things’: so the president has always told us, who – as I have always recognized – was the main architect of last season’s salvation. He is the one who instilled in us passion, personality and ferocity in achieving things impossible. He is the one who strongly believes that when men all pull in the same direction they are capable of extraordinary things – adds Nicola -. And I have already seen him achieve many extraordinary things”. Nicola continues thanking the president for calling him and says: “This is the demonstration that new football is a football of passion and heart and for this I want to repay his trust with all my strength and with all the passion I have. With the sports management led by Morgan De Sanctis, whom I thank for the mediation without which this operation would not have been possible, weeks of very hard work and continuous discussion await us to achieve our objectives. Now let’s start again together, all of us, and tell a “another extraordinary football story, giving back to the grenade fans the same passion and the same sense of belonging that it unconditionally demonstrates to us. This is Salerno, this is Salernitana: much more than a football team”.