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The packaging changes, but the substance is that. They are two arch-Italians. Two tactics, they often show up, they like, and they also bring home some results
Gattuso a year later. His path resembles that of Giuseppe Conte, who has now become prime minister twice. At Palazzo Chigi since June 1, 2018. Two and a half years. Not few for a person considered a meteor. In addition, and this is the aspect that brings him closer to Gattuso, Conte is also a Zelig of politics. A discreet helmsman. How can we define it? A strategist. One that is able to smell the wind and change course. His speech against Salvini is memorable, as if they were enemies for life. Plus, you have your audience. Like. How Gattuso likes it in Naples. Although his detractors are not lacking, especially among the fans.
If we look at Gattuso’s first year, we can safely say that his government program (not his goals) has failed miserably. And went bankrupt after a month. De Laurentiis presented him as the man who would bring back to Naples the sarrismo that has left profound consequences in these parts. If you don’t touch the ball a thousand times in one action, it is not considered valid.
Here, however, Gattuso-Conte comes into play. Whoever obeys first, applies the presidential dictate. Then he realizes that he is going to crash. And beware, here lies Gattuso’s main talent: he realizes, he has antennas with excellent signal reception, his feet are firmly planted on the ground.
Gattuso closes the sarrismo after six days, almost all of them defeated. But he knows well that he must also turn necessity into virtue. You know what Napoli’s dressing room is. And in order to survive, it stops the physiological process of renewal that the unnameable predecessor had started. Beyond the perception of a man who does not look anyone in the face, a chapeau for him for letting it go, the reality is quite different. Gattuso’s hierarchies are rigid. Only once did he really surprise: with the exclusion of Insigne last in Milan in the Italian Cup against Inter (Napoli won).
Even today, Lozano is considered almost a promising young player and not an established footballer who was excluded last year for mysterious reasons. We allow ourselves to doubt that he fell when he fired, as the technician repeated.
In this, in the management of the group, there is harmony between Gattuso and De Laurentiis. Because, at the end of the fair, the president is the exact opposite of the father-teacher figure who, who knows why, is associated with him. We are light years away from the character of Gavino Ledda brought to the cinema by the Taviani brothers in a film that, if seen in childhood, can leave permanent damage.
The mutiny ended in a volleyball pit. Players were spared with a movie, some were even rewarded with a heavy revamp. In Bergamo, it seems that the Papu Gómez-Gasperini affair will end differently, just to give an example.
Here, however, the Gattuso-Conte returns to the scene. He understands the impossibility of such a game model, but he also knows that he has to trust those men, otherwise he runs the risk of turning really bad. And it’s good for convincing players to play so as not to get caught. He takes refuge in what once would have been called lightning. We call it a double bus. The fact is that this is how Gattuso’s Napoli played their best games: in the League against Juve, in the Italian Cup (which was won, it is not cheap), and also the first leg of the Champions League against Barcelona. Purists still go crazy today. But Napoli is third with a penalty point and a game that could be repeated. So far he is playing an excellent championship.
When he arrived, Gattuso called the seventh place shameful. Then he closed the championship seventh. Without anyone telling him anything. And here is another merit of the Calabrian coach: in addition, he does not enjoy an excellent press. Journalists like it. From the north, from the south, from the center. Like this spontaneous and false way of saying things. He never actually says something awkward. But he always pretends to say it. And so it is perceived. The last case was that of Maradona’s pseudo-meetings. Very pseudo, given the data for the next fifteen days. In communication, Gattuso is like Giuseppe Conte: it works.
Inclusion theory has also been applied to the transfer market. Is there someone who wants to go back to the past and who prefers to renew themselves? Gattuso fights for the Mertens renewal and then makes Osimhen buy because he knows he has to play vertically. In addition, he opposes the sale of Lozano, who has taken the chestnuts out of the fire on several occasions. Silence, he managed to assemble the strongest team of the De Laurentiis era. Complete in all roles. And it is not a secondary merit for a coach. He bought Rrhamani who he practically never played, apart from the virus. And nobody said anything to him. Any other coach, Sarri himself, would have been criticized. Noel. Napoli has two strong goalkeepers, four-tier central defenders, a battery of attackers. And he also managed to catch Bakayoko after making the square cheer for the signings of Demme and Lobotka in January. Without forgetting that nobody has ever told him anything about the non-arrival of Ibrahimovic, not exactly the last arrival.
Gattuso, like Conte, is the arch-Italian. He knows how to stay in the world. Unlike Conte, she chose a different dress. The man in the street instead of that of a good family. But the substance is the same. Basically, so far at least, his Napoli catches the mouse. Which is not cheap at all. Needless to say, he is not a reformist. He is a helmsman, a strategist. With your feet firmly planted on the ground. It gives the idea of someone who, as soon as they enter a room, realizes where they are, with whom to relate and how to behave. We do not know what goals it will achieve. But he has established a principle that could mark his career: he does not fall below a certain level. It is not cheap.
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