I don’t understand this move from Napoli at all. He’s not a long-term replacement , and I can’t see them providing him with the funds he needs to give him a top quality squad in Europe and Italy. Ancelotti only does well with super-teams, and even recently, he’s lost quite a bit of his shine. His style of play is also completely different from Sarri, who made worse players look better - I don’t think Ancelotti has the ability to do that. I reckon they’ll struggle to make the top 4 next season.
I think they would have been a genuine title contender (again) if they managed to keep their team together and signed Conte instead.
Actually until Napoli he only did financially powerful teams, so we've no idea how good he is with more modest resources, I wouldn't write him off just yet. A lot will depend on transfer market and what ADL puts together for him, I doubt he signed Papa Carlo without promising him a star or two, also I don't think Carlo would've agreed to sign if he didn't intend to polish his reputation a bit after the Bayern fiasco, 6.5m is a great salary, but he could've gotten that elsewhere with much less pressure
He's always been more of a cup coach though, maybe ADL thought what the hell, we can pull a Roma or a Liverpool too and maybe he's right, we'll see.
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Mus™;5747703 said:
FFP was put in place to stop poor clubs from overspending and ending up bankrupt? What PSG and City do isn't what what FFP was brought in to stop, media and fan hysteria aside
FFP was also brought in to stop football market inflation and allow clubs to not overspend beyond their means and still compete. Make no mistake, PSG and City are making a mockery of those regulations and they're raising the transfer and salary market in new heights almost every summer. Milan potentially changing owners isn't the biggest problem, the gap between what a normal football club can spend on salaries and transfer fees and what PSG spends is the biggest problem, it's not even comparable, of course clubs are forced to deepen their debt if they want to stay relevant.
Platini:
Fifty per cent of clubs are losing money and this is an increasing trend. We needed to stop this downward spiral. They have spent more than they have earned in the past and haven't paid their debts. We don't want to kill or hurt the clubs; on the contrary, we want to help them in the market. The teams who play in our tournaments have unanimously agreed to our principles…living within your means is the basis of accounting but it hasn't been the basis of football for years now. The owners are asking for rules because they can't implement them themselves - many of them have had it with shovelling money into clubs and the more money you put into clubs, the harder it is to sell at a profit.