Napoli President Aurelio De Laurentiis claims the incident during the first half of the campaign is ‘just a bad memory’ after the Coppa Italia success.
The season started turbulent for the Partenopei, who struggled to pick up the required points to fight for a place among the top four in Serie A.
A retreat-non-retreat episode under Carlo Ancelotti split the San Paolo and the patron decided to hand out fines to the players who protested his decisions.
Napoli President Aurelio De Laurentiis claims the incident during the first half of the campaign is ‘just a bad memory’ after the Coppa Italia success.
The season started turbulent for the Partenopei, who struggled to pick up the required points to fight for a place among the top four in Serie A.
A retreat-non-retreat episode under Carlo Ancelotti split the San Paolo and the patron decided to hand out fines to the players who protested his decisions.
Gennaro Gattuso replaced Ancelotti in December and the Azzurri have slowly bounced back to competing with the best, culminating with the triumph against Juventus in the Coppa Italia Final last night.
The success under Gattuso has made the patron forget the episode during the initial phase of the campaign and now he wants to get back into the Scudetto battle with the Old Lady.
“The fines are just a bad memory,” he told Il Mattino. “Gattuso made me forget the episode.
“We are the rivals of Juventus, but not yet for the Scudetto and now the Champions League places.”