Allegri-Napoli towards the yes. De Laurentiis wants a big name

But of “short muzzle” to whom? Because this time, in the boundless universe of the market, between zonists and purists or strategists and rhetoricals, there has been a single man in command of the restyling inspired by De Laurentiis, his shirt will be Azzurra and his name will be Massimiliano Allegri. Certain stories, in football, make immense turns, but rethinking this which has been the Count Max, in this new life sometimes pomaced, will be able to find himself on the climb of the lost steps, Soccavo district, Centro Paradiso. In reality, in that 1997-98 season a kind of hell, coaches as if they rained (in the end, four) and he in the lifeboat of the “galley” until, like a cleaver, the exemption arrived. And Allegri, an end of the tough, however in a touted team, found himself placed on the margins, a kind of unwanted guest, without almost seeing the field in the last fifteen Sundays, because at the time it was used, via the mentor and also the students.

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The blue smoke, from the chimney of Castel Volturno, will obviously come out when the conditions exist, without diplomatic accidents, without cross -values, and above all without crossing unaware men protagonists of a “relay” that has already occurred at the latitudes of Vinovo – summer in 2014 – and which this time would like to avoid, in style. But Allegri Napoli saw her closely over and over again, he was flattering – when he was at Milan – by De Laurentiis in the spring of 2012; He stopped to chat with him repeatedly, and could still happen in 2023, in the after-Gattuso, when ADL remained for a while in the middle between Max and Spalletti and then, on May 25, he chose not first a phone call to the Tuscan of Livorno, with whom he went off with also paternal.

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This time, in the secret rooms of the pine forest the shaded areas have disappeared: one candidate, no perplexity, front dialogue as between old friends, very clear ideas and discretion. De Laurentiis has sensed for some time that with Conte there would have been no margins, a legacy of January – of Kvara and also of a replacement never seriously chased – and then there was that pinch of frost that knows of subliminal message, a vanished connection and increasingly rare telephone connections. In those days, between anxiety for a championship hanging on a very thin thread, ADL has granted its reflections, she thought about its strategies, avoided going to look for the compass and wanted to take a certainty but also a canvas at the galleries of the greats, he who gave himself Rafa Benitez, then Carlo Ancelotti, then Antonio Conte; He who instinctively caught Maurizio Sarri the potential of a “commander”; He who took on the responsibilities of those errors in the after-school of 2023, this time he chased the top again and again, six badges (between Milan and Juve), a foam of cups and a ease that has won it now. The rest added Giovanni Manna, the diesse, who shared evenings and torments in Turin in the season of the disasters, penalties, of the fracasso faced without ever unleashing. ADL Allegri has always liked it, he confessed it in public and also in private to friends, he lives with disenchanted responsibility the stress of his role, is democratically “authoritarian”, does not worn and has an international dimension, as the two European finals underline. It is better to add, despite the personal tactical history, I say other, that Allegri belongs to the generation of the trident (how not to be if you have studied with Galeone?), A path that only occasionally could have followed and that this time could try it, because Napoli as a team likes and as a company, which at 4-3-3 has also voted.

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There is a string of friends of that era and also of more recent days that in the vigils of Naples-Juventus has always had the opportunity to go and greet Allegri in the hotel, chatting in looseness, because the tension of a game can also be faced by enjoying a coffee from a terrace in Corso Emanuele: you look at the combination, two steps from the old house of Ferlaino, its president of ’98, and, coinciding with the residence. Neapolitan by De Laurentiis, with whom he had the opportunity to find himself more than a couple of times. “Sooner or later…”. The dress is now tailored: Neapolitan tailoring, Count Max likes.