Antonio Conte-Napoli, a Juventus star for the Salento coach

Antonio Conte at Napoli, De Laurentiis one step away from the coup

Antonio Conte getting closer to Napoli. We are working on the details of the contract, but the white smoke seems around the corner: the parties are working on a three-year contract (expires 2027) at 6.5/7 million net per season plus two bonuses. The new sporting director of the Neapolitan club, Giovanni Manna (who arrived in Naples after his years at Juventus) is working on the various details, primarily the image rights management and clauses (there should not be an automatic renewal option in the contract in favor of the Campania company).

Announcement by the hour? Aurelio De Laurentiis slows down a bit on the timing. “It’s not that I don’t want to say anything – declared the Napoli president – it’s that I can’t say anything because the next ten days will be decisive after having made all the appropriate, necessary assessments. It’s not the support that must win but the fairness of the reasoning”.

Antonio Conte at Napoli, the coaching staff

The goal is to have everything resolved within 48 hours at most to be able to announce the hiring of Antonio Conte in Naples together with his staff (deputy Cristian Stellini, Gianluca Contebrother as well as matchanalyst, ei preparators Coratti and Bruno). Also in the ‘team’ of the former Inter and Juventus coach Lele Oriali (with whom he worked during the Nerazzurri period and in the national team), with a role still to be defined.

Antonio Conte-Napoli, I dream of Lukaku if Osimhen leaves

There is already talk about the market and the face that the new Napoli will show. Viktor Osimhen should leave (clause around 120 million and big names lined up for him, from PSG to Chelsea): in place of the Nigerian attacker one of the hot names for Antonio Conte’s team is that of Romelu Lukaku (with Big Rom it was Inter’s Scudetto in 2020) who ends his season on loan in Rome and for the moment returns to Chelsea.

Antonio Conte-Napoli, Chiesa idea from Juventus

And then pay attention to the suggestion Federico Chiesa: according to Alfredo Pedullà he could be among the names on the list of possible purchases. The next Napoli coach likes the Juventus winger and has a contract expiring in 2025 with Juventus. Napoli could make the coup thus building a championship trident: Kvaratskhelia, Lukaku and Chiesa.