Either Napoli will go back to where they were a year ago, or everything will go to hell! A third scenario in this combination is hard to imagine. Today, Napoli and Antonio Conte officially confirmed a three-year deal worth 36 million euros. That’s how much Conte will cost the Neapolitans for three years of contract while his net salary will amount to 6.5 million euros. And that’s only a fixed amount without bonuses. With bonuses related to results (titles, qualifying for the Champions League…), Conte’s net salary could go up to 10 million euros annually.Un nuovo capitolo della nostra Storia inizia oggi.Benvenuto Mister Conte! 💙 Leggi la news 👉 https://t.co/e0FNt4l6Aw #ConTe #ForzaNapoliSempre pic.twitter.com/gBTBhyZTwd— Official SSC Napoli (@sscnapoli) June 5, 2024 A quite strong staff arrives with the new manager. Gabriele Oriali will represent the bond between the coaching staff and the players, Cristian Stellini, who worked with Conte at Siena, Juventus, Inter Milan and Tottenham, will be his first assistant, and there are also fitness coaches Stefano Bruno and Costantino Coratti, who have always managed to maintain Conte’s teams highly prepared. This will also be the first major test of the 54-year-old tactician’s career in Southern Italy. He was born and raised in Lecce, from where he went to Juventus after six seasons and spent 13 years there, wearing the captain’s armband. He started his coaching career in Arezzo in Tuscany and then worked in Bari for two years, which was his only coaching engagement in the south of Italy so far.Conte will have quarter of a billion for new signings at his disposal – if Osimhen gets sold!Now the southerner is returning to his homeland. Although the Salentini and the Neapolitans are not exactly the same, they share a similar temperament, and Conte knows what kind of mentality awaits him in Naples. Especially regarding the collaboration with the club’s President, Aurelio De Laurentiis, who is also a passionate man. Although it would be more realistic to predict that the two of them would “grab each other by the throat” already in February, they might actually get along.De Laurentiis also realized that he didn’t have much of a choice after making the big mistake last June when he brought in Rudi Garcia instead of Luciano Spalletti and then fired him shortly after. Then he put out the fire with the worn-out Walter Mazzarri and brought the season to an end with the manager of the Slovakian national team Francesco Calzona. He needs someone with a clear project and style of play, but also someone who can immediately bring a result. Conte is a specialist in bringing instant success if he is given freedom from the start and if his wishes are met in the transfer window. He managed to do that at Juventus, the Italian national team, Chelsea, and even Inter…Benvenuto Antonio! pic.twitter.com/HHtEkixxb3— AurelioDeLaurentiis (@ADeLaurentiis) June 5, 2024 He took over Juventus after a terrible season and a seventh place under Luigi Delneri. In the first season, he won the double and then won two more titles in a row. He laid the foundations of Allegri’s Juventus, which ruled Italian football. However, Conte’s character is such that he doesn’t last long anywhere, and he used to justify his failures in the European competitions by the lack of support from the management, which ultimately cost him his dismissal. He took over the Italian national team after the debacle at the World Cup in Brazil and at the 2016 European Championship and led Italy to the quarter-finals by beating the current champions at the time, the Spaniards. He was eliminated by Germany on penalties, but Italy played great football.Conte’s first wish for boosting Napoli is Man United’s African midfielderIn 2016, he moved to Chelsea, which finished the previous season in 10th place in the Premier League and immediately led the Blues to the title! But he wasn’t successful in European competitions there either, fell out with the management over the transfer policy and he spent only two seasons at Stamford Bridge. He took a break for a year and then took over Inter, which had no better ranking than fourth in Serie A for eight years. In the first season, they were second, and in the next one, they won the title, and Conte left. Again due to disagreements with the board and again without sucess in Europe. His last spell was with Tottenham, which he led for a year and a half, but he did not manage to do anything significant there.One thing is particularly important in Conte’s career. Neither Juventus nor Chelsea were playing in Europe when he took over and they still won titles in the first seasons. He made the most of the fact that the direct rivals were playing European cups. Napoli won’t be playing in Europe next season so that factor works in Conte’s favour.Osimhen on a crossroad – Saudi Pro League or Premier League giantsBut Aurelio De Laurentiis will also have to fulfill his wishes in terms of transfers. Especially if Victor Osimhen and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia leave the club, as announced in the previous days. It is speculated that selling them would secure Napoli a budget of 250 million euros for new players, which should be enough for Conte. And that means bringing in at least one centre-back who is good with the ball, at least two offensive wing-backs who play at a high pace, a strong defensive midfielder, a strong forward… Surely the Godfather, as people call him, will have an interesting wish list.Surely, it will be interesting for the Neapolitans with him. He worked in the biggest clubs from the north of Italy and knows what Juventus and Inter are, but he will not feel inferior to them and will wake up the “grinta” in Napoli. “Grinta” is an Italian football term that, in translation, implies crazy energy, passion and determination to go against everyone all by yourself… Conte is the ideal man for that. At least for a year or two…##NAJAVA_MECA_8143852##
