Aurelius De Laurentis is gearing up to begin his 19th season as president of Naplesclub permanently under his management in the upper areas of Serie A. Four second places, four thirds, three Coppa Italias and one Supercup arrived, but the big target, that Scudetto that Azzurri fans have been dreaming of ever since from Maradona (and Ferlaino) and that according to most critics – who were also heard recently in Dimaro – will never be able to arrive with the current title.
After all, De Laurentiis’ Napoli are very careful not to take the longest step: no leap in the dark, no ‘all-in’. The objective is to do the best at a sporting level within the limits of non-derogable bets.: Attention to financial statements, almost always closed on a positive note, goes hand in hand with financial autonomy. Napoli are, in fact, one of only three Serie A clubs, along with Fiorentina and Spezia, not to have bank debt, where the big names have exposures in the hundreds of millions.
To understand how much attention the Italian president pays to the accounts, just listen to the anecdote told by the former mayor of Naples Luigi De Magistris to Casa Napoli: “I was mayor recently, President De Laurentiis calls me and says ‘Mayor, I need to speak to you very urgently. There is something very urgent.’ I replied: ‘President, but unfortunately I can’t today’, because I kept a very dense agenda. “No, no, but it’s very urgent,” he insisted. So I told him, ‘Look, I have my last appointment at 10:00 pm, I come to Palazzo San Giacomo at 10:30 pm. If it’s too urgent, God forbid, even at night’ “.
At that moment De Laurentiis runs to the mayor’s office and explains the reason for the urgency: “He comes in and starts saying, ‘No, there’s a problem, the tarp covering the lawn breaks when it rains. It is a matter of just over a thousand euros that have to be placed and therefore, according to the convention, this money has to be placed by the Municipality’. I said: ‘Aurè I’m sorry, I thought it was a very urgent thing, that the stadium was falling down’. There I understood that ten years would not be easy in terms of formal, economic, legal, administrative relationships…“.
Source: Fan Page IT
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