Napoli is in the hands of Mertens
With communicative verve and anthropological wisdom, the Belgian has become the sole repository of leadership. And the visit to Adl’s home certifies his hegemony
Db Milan 21/11/2021 – Serie A football championship / Inter-Napoli / photo Daniele Buffa / Image Sport in the photo: Dries Mertens
Going to kiss the ring at the Mertens home is the definitive white flag of the current ownership. The president’s move gives exactly the distorted shape that society and even the city live. Napoli and Napoli belong to Mertens. The Belgian has launched a takeover bid since he has become the center forward and the iconic man. He also devoured Insigne’s leadership, never really comfortable in the role of leader. The Belgian with communicative verve and anthropological wisdom became the owner of the city and the team.
De Laurentiis twisted the prison director in the film “Il Camorrista” who spends a sleepless night, hoping that the Professor of Vesuviano in prison. Let’s imagine the bitter gratitude felt by De Laurentiis. They are two foreigners who have perfectly learned how to do things in the city. Mertens is what he learned much faster.
The recognition of Mertens is a technical ploy, to remedy a lack of managerial and managerial work that in Naples was lacking to his son when he entrusted the supervision of FrEdo who in the general silence took up the reins of “ordinary management”. The vacation continues until Mertens becomes a manager. Unless he identifies himself as a median figure of reference.
As long as the management was in the hands of Aurelio De Laurentiis, Napoli was a slashing arrow towards the future. And not a few hoped for a different future. Less tied to the past. The moment the patron passed his hand, without proclamations and announcements. The decline was inevitable, as the Napolista pointed out.
Today Mertens commands in Naples, with all due respect to those who think that in football, as in professional life, cycles do not have to renew themselves to the maximum with every five years. Certainly in a future perspective Mertens will be a decidedly more skilled manager and greater dialogue with players of one or two younger generations.
The proposals that came out of the TV lounges are inadmissible (Improta, Bruscolotti, Montefusco, Montervino, Taglialatela), given the cultural and generational distance between, for example, Bruscolotti and Osimhen. Mertens is certainly one that can be used as a corporate image both on TV and in draws and meetings, also considering its remarkable cosmopolitanism. We can only wish the best for Napoli, with Mertens behind the desk he would gain.
The De Laurentiis family has only one weapon for the restoration. But at the moment he is busy planning Serie B. A Bari.