The Italian press assured that Rudi Garcia had three matches to save himself. Then, as the hours passed, the fate of the French coach already seemed sealed at Napoli. Designated as the main culprit of the Partenopei’s results crisis, Garcia probably did not expect to be sitting on the Neapolitan bench when the championship resumed. Because its president, Aurelio De Laurentiis, had sent the sauce.
“I’m having a bad time with him. I am an entrepreneur, I have a duty to take an interest in my business. The coach and sports director are at your service. I will make the most appropriate decisions when the time comes. (…) When you take a coach who no longer knows Italian football, maybe he has difficulties. This would have happened to anyone else. The only responsibility I have, in addition to having chosen the coach, is for not having had the chance to be close to him.
Antonio Conte saves Rudi Garcia
Terrible words for the Frenchman. And that’s not all. Yesterday, we revealed to you that a meeting was to take place between the Napoli coach and ADL. An interview during which the Italian boss hoped to resolve an amicable breakup with his technician. A trend confirmed by the transalpine press which assured that De Laurentiis had contacted Antonio Conte urgently. Except that the former coach of Chelsea and Juventus failed Napoli. A game-changing event.
There Gazzetta dello Sport assures that ADL did everything to convince Conte to come, but the latter refused due to a question of timing. Conte likes to have control over his teams, starting in preseason. Result: De Laurentiis decided to confirm Rudi Garcia in his position. He then asked his players to pull themselves together and help their coach and the club get out of this bad situation. A forced backpedal in short. It now remains to be seen whether Rudi Garcia will take advantage of this unexpected second chance to relaunch his Napoli or whether the recent actions of its president have definitively broken their relationship.
