The FIGC and the 3 million euro question of precept

A particularly warm mid-August and the impression is that temperatures will continue to be high even within the following couple of hours. The wish is that a little “fresh” will arrive near the weekend, when the Football Association he hopes and expects to have the right conditions to place an quit to the chaos unleashed via Roberto Mancini’s resignation on Sunday thirteen August.

The successor chosen with the aid of Gabriele Gravina is Luciano Spalletti, champion of Italy with Napoli and nevertheless connected to the Neapolitan club. There is a clause which can launch him, but Aurelio De Laurentiis does not intend to miss it, just because the FIGC has no goal of fulfilling the requests of the Neapolitan number one. Everything begins from Roberto Mancini’s choice and, consequently, we want to take a step returned and go returned to the statements made by means of the former coach to various newspapers on newsstands on August 15th.

“I didn’t do something to be massacred like this. I just resigned and assumed all responsibility for the choice. Should I actually have done it faster? Maybe. But I left the countrywide team 25 days from the following healthy, not 3”, a number of the phrases from Mancini who additionally explains the motives that led him to step aside.

“Have you ever seen a federal president change the workforce of a teach? The truth – says Mancini – is that for a while Gravina has been thinking opposite matters to mine”. The former train also replies to folks that accuse him of having taken this step attracted by using alleged millionaire offers, which include those mentioned by way of the Saudi press convinced that the neighborhood national crew is expecting him.

“When I arrived at Azzurri I gave up on greater moneymaking opportunities, I made a choice and it become the maximum important process of my lifestyles. If Gravina had desired to, he might have saved me. He didn’t. Saudi Arabia? What am I saying it’s unbiased of what happens inside the future and wherein I pass. I don’t need to think about some thing now.” So a long way Mancini.

The beyond, the destiny chosen through the Federation is related to Luciano Spalletti, however the hassle is linked to a contractual situation which, in step with Aurelio De Laurentiis, does now not loose up the Italian champion teach, except… In a long and vicious press release issued on August fifteenth, the Napoli president “After the avalanche of abstract issues that seemed in lots of media”, deemed it important “to clarify the Spalletti affair, linked to his feasible dedication as national teach”.

De Laurentiis explains that “in granting” Spalletti “the opportunity of no longer fulfilling his settlement, I asked for ensures on compliance with this sabbatical period, which include a penalty inside the event that his dedication fails”. Then the assault on the Figc.

 

“Observing the story underneath dialogue, what seems maximum surprising to me is that we arrive just a few weeks away from two very vital fits for the countrywide team, with Mancini resigning. In this regard, there are  fundamental considerations to make: you don’t recognise a way to preserve members of the family with its collaborators leading them to resign; there is a lack of prison instruments suitable for retaining them, determining compliance with the contracts signed also via the supply of particular penalties”.

Having said this, De Laurentiis shares and approves of Spalletti’s desire, however if this is the decision “we can't prevent in the front of the idea (paying on behalf of the teach) of one million gross per year to loose him from his contractual obligation (commitment now not handiest toward Napoli however towards all its thousands and thousands of enthusiasts.) This is all inconsistent.” De Laurentiis maintains: “For Napoli, three million is in reality no longer a lot and for Aurelio De Laurentiis it's miles even much less.

But the question in the gift case is not ‘vil cash’, but a query of principle, which does not issue simplest Napoli, however the entire Italian soccer machine, which should shed its amateurish mind-set to stand the challenges searching at the compliance with the guidelines of companies, joint-stock businesses and the marketplace. Until the ‘rule’ is permitted to be the ‘exemption’, the soccer machine will now not be able to evolve.”

The FIGC, as a minimum for the instant, has now not replied, however intends to retain on its way. Gravina is satisfied that Spalletti is the proper desire, the settlement with the train would already exist, however the “question of precept” raised by using De Laurentiis wishes to be resolved. The lawyers are at paintings, the so-called “non-opposition” clause, furthermore, could now not be violated on account that it's miles a query of the countrywide team and no longer of rival clubs, but the penalty exists and even the president of Napoli continues for his way.

It is necessary to hurry, Macedonia and Ukraine are close and decisive (or almost) commitments for the Azzurri, the choice is Spalletti, however there are “complex events” to remedy. This is why different hypotheses can't be dominated out, the first issues Antonio Conte, but in the mean time it's far the primary, very legitimate and really safe alternative to the chosen one: Luciano Spalletti.