Naples, Antonio Conte throws accusations: "Others are in debt and make market"

Napoli coach Antonio Conte is furious after the game won against Fiorentina. The Azzurri coach to DAZN, commenting on Giovanni Di Lorenzo’s injury, the umpteenth for the partenopei, lashed out first and foremost against the packed schedule of matches: “There&#8217s little to say. We always return to the same talk, of putting match after match after match. Players who have to rest keep playing. This kind of injury, the ACL, is traumatic. But playing so many games just kills these guys”.

Luca Franzosi

“Either the rules are changed even with the nurseries or to make 60/70 games a year the rosters must be expanded. This year everything can be said except that we are complaining. There are serious injuries here that you struggle to put a patch on. Today we lost a 90th piece who played them all. I am also sorry that the’Italian Footballers Association turns the other way on this issue”.

The Lecce coach then turned his attention to the market: “Ask yourself a question and give yourself an answer. If the championship started now and you saw Napoli with this roster, where would you put Napoli? I see that the others are also strengthening themselves in a big way in the market. They have even blocked the market for us, we are the only club that has 240 million in the till and they are blocking the market for us. Fantastic this thing. Numbers 1. Today I am too pissed off about Di Lorenzo, I better end here or else I have to say more things”.

In the press conference, however, the Napoli coach continued his reasoning: “We have 240 million in cash, other clubs are in debt and we have the market blocked. These are the rules, we accept them but every now and then we should stop instead of thinking about the new rules of soccer, Var, hand fouls, matches in Australia or Saudi Arabia. We need to protect those who are the real creators of the sport, the players: it’s not us outside, it’s them. And they need to be better protected, I am pissed off”.

Little hope for Di Lorenzo: “They are probably talking about a rupture of the knee, Napoli pays the consequences and also the national team. I feel so sorry for the boy because in some ways you feel guilty about playing them all the time. But if we are these? If you are tired the muscles don’t always respond well, if it goes wrong you break a tendon and a knee. The boys should be thanked because they did something extraordinary: nobody at the professional level had an emergency like ours”.