Check out today’s latest news from Serie A, including Massimiliano Allegri’s shaky future at Juventus and Napoli’s work to convince Antonio Conte.
Tuttosport revealed this morning that the Old Lady would seriously consider dismissing Allegri in the near future should the club pick up ‘negative’ results in their coming two games against Fiorentina and Torino. Juventus have managed just seven points in their last nine league games.
Maurizio Sarri has become the latest coach to be linked with the Napoli job, report il Mattino and Tuttosport. The coach, who resigned from Lazio last month, could become a serious candidate should Frederic Massara become their next sporting director.
Stefano Pioli is looking increasingly likely to stay with Milan beyond this year, despite all the various rumours surrounding his and the club’s futures, DAZN transfer pundit Orazio Accomando claims. The Italian tactician has reportedly been involved with transfer strategy ahead of the Serie A summer transfer window.
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Nicolo Zaniolo wants ‘a leading role’ in Unai Emery’s Aston Villa squad for the coming weeks, his agent Claudio Vigorelli suggested, as the 24-year-old is desperate to be part of Luciano Spalletti’s Italy squad for the upcoming European Championship.
Roberto De Zerbi on still in the shortlist for the Bayern Munich job as his future at Brighton looks increasingly uncertain. Sky Sports Deutschland reported that the Italian is one of the frontrunners to replace Thomas Tuchel alongside Julian Naglesmann.
The new Netflix documentary ‘Together: Treble Winners’ gave an insight into the thoughts of Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola during the club’s Champions League final win over Inter last year, including what was said in the dressing room at half time.
Leonardo Spinazzola and Paulo Dybala both took part in today’s squad training session in Trigoria as Daniele De Rossi’s Roma gear up for the ever-tense Derby della Capitale with Lazio, which’ll take place on Saturday at the Stadio Olimpico.
Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis is reportedly desperate to convince Antonio Conte to take on the job in the summer and has promised him a blank cheque in the coming summer transfer window, keen to kickstart a new project after the chaos of this season.
Napoli have also reportedly started focusing their efforts on Juventus director Giovanni Manna in their hunt for a new sporting director, keen to snap him up following his impressive work in Turin with the NextGen squad.