De Laurentiis: ‘Humble’ Sarri perfect for Napoli

Date: 7th October 2015 at 8:21am
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Maurizio Sarri NapoliNapoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis has revealed that he chose Maurizio Sarri to replace Rafael Benitez at the expense of AC Milan coach Sinisa Mihajlovic as the Serb was not humble enough.

The Partenopei spectacularly defeated the Rossoneri 4-0 on Sunday evening thanks in large to a second-half brace by Lorenzo Insigne as the San Siro outfit slumped to their fourth defeat of the season thus far.

And the 66-year-old believes he made the right managerial selection, claiming that Sarri’s ‘intelligent simplicity’ makes him a perfect fit at the club.

“Before Sarri I thought of [Jurgen] Klopp, and I thought of a Spaniard too [Unal Emery] to continue the tradition because many of our players are Spanish,” he told the tv show Tiki Taka.

“Then I considered Mihajlovic and Sarri. I liked Sinisa’s style, but it showed up at our second meeting when he told me: ‘President, you vanished for two weeks’.

“I didn’t like his tone, as though I had to be there for him 24/7 when I have cinema, theme parks, China and USA to think about.

“I needed a humble professor, like Sarri. Then I came to know him, he’s a man who reads. Now I must convince him to stop smoking.

“When he drew in Naples and then beat us 4-2 [with Empoli], the media elected him as the surprise.

“But it wasn’t a sudden thing, rather the result of some concrete work, so I called him. I was surprised by his intelligent simplicity.”

 

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