Napoli’s president has spoken again about the dismissal of the French coach, who was later on replaced by Mazzarri.
Aurelio De Laurentiis was straight when revisiting Rudi Garcia’s dismissal: “When did I realize I had to fire him? The day I introduced him at the press-conference,” responded the Napoli president in an interview with Corriere dello Sport.
De Laurentiis explained, “I should have just fired him at the spot and said I introduced him to you, but now he’s leaving.’ Because someone who arrives at a club that has just won the Scudetto and says, ‘I don’t know this team very well, I’ve never seen a match…’ I should have known better then. Instead, laughed it off.”
“The fact is, he repeated that several times, and I didn’t do nothing. It would have been enough for him to adopt the same style of play as Spalletti. Instead, he tried to invent something new and insisted that I dismiss a perfect fitness coach (Sinatti) to bring in someone who I had been warned: “this guy disrupts the players.” I made a huge mistake with Garcia.”
