Last hours of reflection at Udinese on the coach who brought her to safety Gino Pozzo will call him after evaluating all the alternatives, from Zanetti to Maran
UDINE
The phone is crying, the immortal Domenico Modugno would have said. Or the video platform, to keep up with the times and to explain how the interview between Gino Pozzo e Luca Gotti on the London-Montebelluna axis, where the coach is now, at home, waiting for a definitive clarification from the Udinese strategist who has been stationed in the English capital for years to closely follow Watford. But on his table at the moment there is above all the “Juventus coach” dossier, a topic that would not even have been taken into consideration if Udinese had not closed at the pace of a sloth (8 defeats in the last 11 days), albeit with a handy safety in your pocket.
The season finale was, in Gino Pozzo’s intentions, just the way to demonstrate to the club that the renewal would be the first step of a long-term path, otherwise the automatic renewal option in the hands of the club by the end of February it would go off immediately. But often the most complex plans fail due to unforeseen events, in the form of injuries, a flurry of injuries that have deprived Gotti of almost all the forwards, considering the knockouts of Pussetto, Deulofeu, Nestorovski e Well behaved. In these conditions the alibi is almost automatic, even if the worm of a disappointing season finale remains present in the minds of those who have followed the entire Udinese championship.
For this Gino Pozzo has taken a week of reflection and in the next few hours he should communicate to Gotti the “verdict” on his future, a pause that has fueled the rumors of a possible change of course on the bench, given that there were also the usual polls for an alternative to Gotti, technically released from next June 30th and therefore in turn with his ears turned towards other realities should Udinese opt for a farewell. Gotti who, however, has always declared that he gives priority to Juventus, even if the contract is annual like the one that is about to expire.
In this context, the indiscretions of some interests for the Contarina coach began to circulate, such as that of Sampdoria, who seems to have abandoned the idea of a return of Marco Giampaolo, even if in this case the Gotti track would be linked to the ds Carlo Osti which could be out in Sampdoria for the benefit of his colleague Daniele Faggiano which would instead push for Roberto D’Aversa, his coach at the time of Parma. But Sampdoria could also play the card of another great return, that of Walter Mazzarri which, however, also like Bologna where Sinisa Mihajlovic it seems to the greetings. And Bologna is the other club that closely follows the events of Gotti, given that another ds friend operates in those parts, Riccardo Bigon.
Udinese, on the other hand, probed some old guard technicians like Rolando Maran (still under contract with Genoa for 900 thousand euros), even if the most recurrent combination was the one with the coach who has just brought Venezia back to Serie A, Paolo Zanetti, linked until 2023 with the lagoon club, but approached by different clubs, Sampdoria itself and also Verona, orphan of Ivan Juric, finished in Turin, Verona who is also evaluating the former Juventus player Igor Allr, back from a year as deputy of Andrea Pirlo to Juventus.
Regarding the Zanetti hypothesis, however, in the last few hours the name of the Venice attacking midfielder Mattia Aramu was associated with Udinese. Just a suggestion? Maybe. Certainly in that area of the Campo Pozzo he will have to intervene decisively in the case of (probable) sale of Rodrigo De Paul. But that’s another story. The next. –