Aurelio De Laurentiis admits mistake with Luciano Spalletti
The words of Aurelio De Laurentiis
Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis spoke at a press conference touching on numerous issues, including the separation with Luciano Spalletti: "I took all the blame forò I had made Spalletti's contract right, the same as Benitez's, and when I exercised the option, and in the world of soccer this legal option doesn't happen. Many people think it is bilateral, but è it is unilateral. That option è a value, you can refuse to give it or you can grant it, and the option with both Benitez and Spalletti provided for one more year. I within a predetermined period of time have the right to exercise it with a written notice. Lì there is no such thing as cuteness, but è a legal situation".
"At the Bearzot Prize at the Maschio Angioino on March 24, I say 'Spalletti will stay with us' – added the partenopei patron -, he does not deny, after the 4-0 with Milan, April 18 then Napoli-Milan 1-1 in Champions, with bad luck, the missed penalty. 3 days later, April 21, to also boost Spalletti’s morale after the 3 games with Milan, to show him that despite the drop I was with him, I legally sent him the option via pec".
"Never would I have believed that in the dinner of May 12 Spalletti communicated to us a sabbatical year to return to farming and cultivate the land – he later admitted -. Many have told me that I moved late, but here it is not è a company game, when you look for someone you canò say as well 'I am not interested'. Between lawyers and consultations there also came the doubt that Gravina had already contacted him, but doubts are doubts without proof. I blame myself becauseé my mistake was enforcing the option, Spalletti had to stay, then it went to the head-on clash, there would be a lawsuit, but in the meantime I had to hold the point firm, but if you say you love so much I do not think you would not have coached".
He then revealed some market background: "Thiago Motta was on the list of possible coaches from Naples, but already in a conversation of about 6 hours in Rome he told me that he was aiming to coach teams whose name I will not say outside Italy. When you go to choose a coach è bilateral. When è Luis Enrique’s lawyer came to me we spent 3 days talking, then he preferred Psg, there are clubs that being more emblazoned have more attraction and I never get angry. See also Dragusin, to whom I offered more money than Tottenham, he preferred England as well in the face of Bayern and you cannot fight".
"He's a family friend, so he's here. He understood that when he decided to try Inter, he made an error of judgment. Let him work in peace, he will be what he will be. Then it seems to you that now I have Mazzarri, from the 18th he will have everyone, we will start again and we will evaluate…I am already going to look for someone else? C'è time, in April we will see" he commented on Mazzarri.
