After reaching the Coppa Italia final, six years later after the last time, Napoli will face their former coach Maurizio Sarri with a trophy at stake. The partenopei's president Aurelio De Laurentiis discussed the now Juventus coach and his successors at the club in an interview with Corriere dello Sport: "He left with the vulgar excuse of money, even though he had still two years keft on his contract" - De Laurentiis revealed - "We had met in Tuscany in February that year and he didn't mention anything about parting ways. Now he has become a 'deus ex machina', but in football as in the movie industry you need both an excellent director and an excellent producer to make a good movie. Who brought Cavani in? And Higuain? And Sarri even? I did".
De Laurentiis then touched upon the coaches that came after Sarri, starting from Ancelotti: "I should have parted ways with him after his first year exercising the release clause that he had in his contract. I should have told him that he was not the right person for the football phylosophy that people want to see at Napoli. Gattuso? Rino and I are very alike, we both are warriors, leaders. If we do well in the Coppa Italia and in the Champions League and we improve our position in the league, we could start discussing an extension for 3 or four years. Contracts hold a relative value when people thinks highly of each other", De Laurentiis concluded.
