Napoli President Aurelio De Laurentiis openly blamed Coach Maurizio Sarri for losing the Scudetto. “If we always use the same players…”
The interview with Il Mattino newspaper seemed to lay the groundwork for Sarri’s exit this summer, amid reports of interest from Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur.
The Partenopei are four points behind Serie A leaders Juventus with three rounds to go and De Laurentiis refused to pin the blame on refereeing in the Bianconeri’s 3-2 victory at Inter.
Napoli President Aurelio De Laurentiis openly blamed Coach Maurizio Sarri for losing the Scudetto. “If we always use the same players…”
The interview with Il Mattino newspaper seemed to lay the groundwork for Sarri’s exit this summer, amid reports of interest from Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur.
The Partenopei are four points behind Serie A leaders Juventus with three rounds to go and De Laurentiis refused to pin the blame on refereeing in the Bianconeri’s 3-2 victory at Inter.
“I don’t think that made much difference. What I do believe is that at the start of the season we had to begin training early because we were in the Champions League preliminary round and we just ran out of fuel,” the President told the Naples-based newspaper.
“It’s inevitable, unless of course you use all the players that you have in the squad… See, we could’ve had a breather at certain moments of the season, to better prepare the sprint finish. But if we always use the same players…
“Basically, if we hadn’t had injuries like the one to Faouzi Ghoulam, we’d never have discovered Mario Rui who, apart from the catastrophic errors against Roma, has been very good. But if you always use the same players…
“I don’t think the title race has been falsified. Many things happened on Saturday, as some of the choices made by the Inter Coach were also debatable and could well have decided the result.
“VAR was not used well or it wasn’t used at all, but there are also games before that which could’ve given us a bigger margin in the table. I don’t want VAR to be accused of being a bad thing, because I am and remain a supporter of it.
“What I do think is that we need decisions in the booth made not by other referees, but perhaps former Coaches.”