From Juve to Napoli: with Antonio Conte now close to becoming the coach of the Azzurri, here is the first blow that De Laurentiis’ team could place. A comeback
Antonio Conte has never been so close to Napoli. And as we write this, the officialdom of it could also be coming. There has been talk of many teams during this long period of absence from the fields, but now the right destination seems to have arrived, to lift up a team that after winning the Scudetto had an agonizing season, and was also eventually challenged by its own public.
Surely Conte will be the highest paid coach in Serie A. And surely he will have had important guarantees from the Azzurri president on the market, because in the past years and we have already seen this, the Apulian is not someone who accepts everything just like that, in silence. In fact, he is one who slams the door, who leaves when things don’t go his way. So here it is that the deal is now in its final stages, and in all this, the first name also pops up.
From Juve to Napoli, Hojbjerg is the first shot
Danish midfielder, outgoing from Tottenham, Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, could be the first shot of the new Azzurri era. Accosted last January to Juve and also to the Azzurri, calciomercato.it also talks about an inclusion of Milan, which is expected to make Paulo Fonseca official. But there is the Conte factor, precisely, that could make the difference in all this.
Hojbjerg in fact has already been coached by the Italian coach in London in his time at Spurs. And the player also, according in this case to the information that has been reported by FootballInsider, would have already made a decision about his future. He does not want to stay in England and would like to try a new work experience in the top Italian league. And the teams that could accommodate him evidently are there. Who knows, maybe there could even be a lunge by Napoli after closing the technical file. We’ll see, but for sure it is definitely a track to follow.