Napoli, Walter Mazzarri exonerated: confirmation from Aurelio De Laurentiis

The words of Aurelio De Laurentiis

Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis confirmed the exoneration of Walter Mazzarri to the microphones of Sky Sport: "Walter Mazzarri è a friend of the De Laurentiis family and above all a friend of Napoli. È always painful to exonerate a friend, I thanked him for coming at a time of difficultyà but you also have to consider that to Napoli and Napoli fans you have to be able to give something more. And now we try to give it through Calzona, who worked here with Sarri and then with Spalletti and who knows the’80% of our players".

"Betting on Calzona è a smart choice? Timeè is a gentleman, we will see – added the patron of the Azzurri -. Now let’s welcome Calzona and try to help him without contrasts becauseé always it will be very complicated to prepare in 24 hours a difficult match against an important team with Barcelona. That has big players and è always Barcelona. Calzona will come here to the hotel with all his staff at 8:30, we will talk for a long time, then we will go to Castel Volturno, he will introduce him to all the guys, even though there are some new guys he does not know and they joined both in January and this summer".

"It" will be a complete immersion in a new reality" then we will have to run to the stadium after training for this fateful Uefa conference. One should also have time a moment to focus on the serious things of football life ieè right now prepare well for the game with Barcelona".

"I was not able to talk to Hamsik today, I did yesterday, Hamsik è very intrigued by the idea of returning to work for the team he loves, he è truly a champion of Napoli, he gave me a lot of satisfaction by giving up AC Milan and Juventus, è he has been an azzurra" concluded De Laurentiis.