Mayor of Naples Luigi De Magistris has threatened to take legal action against Napoli President Aurelio De Laurentiis. “He’d never stump up the money.”
There is a long-running row between De Laurentiis and the Mayor over restructuring the Stadio San Paolo, as with most arenas in Italy, it is rented from the local council and not owned by the club.
Mayor of Naples Luigi De Magistris has threatened to take legal action against Napoli President Aurelio De Laurentiis. “He’d never stump up the money.”
There is a long-running row between De Laurentiis and the Mayor over restructuring the Stadio San Paolo, as with most arenas in Italy, it is rented from the local council and not owned by the club.
“I am struggling to understand why De Laurentiis was insulting me while I was closing a deal in Rome to find public resources to completely restructure the San Paolo, even more than was originally planned,” De Magistris told Radio Kiss Kiss Napoli today.
“We’re going to get the work done over the summer, trying not to cross over with the fixture list for next season. This is the only stadium in Italy that will be restructured with public funds, because other clubs use their own money, but De Laurentiis prefers to keep it for the transfer market.
“And yet, he was still defamatory towards me and if he doesn’t apologise, we’ll take legal action. We are very bitter, but fortunately his insults did not ruin the deal we struck with the Government.
“He could’ve ruined everything and then we really would never have played the Champions League games in Naples, seeing as we’d need funds and he’d never stump up the money.
“The stadium belongs to the people and it is for them that we organised to raise funds.”