UDINE. Appointment postponed. There was not, on Thursday 27 May, the long-awaited – even by the Juventus people – clarifying conversation on the England-Italy telematic axis between Gino Pozzo e Luca Gotti, interview on which the future of the Udinese bench depends.
A shift that has fueled the rumors of a possible farewell to Friuli for Contarina’s technician, but which paradoxically could also be understood as a moment of further reflection by the top management who do not want to let the coach of the last two salvations escape. light.
From the point of view of the alternatives in the event of a non-renewal, it is clear that the commitment of one of the possible candidates for the succession on the Juventus bench had an impact on the hypothesis of a farewell to Gotti, Paolo Zanetti who on Thursday evening, just before midnight, celebrated the promotion of his Venezia in Serie A.
Now the Venetian technician, 39 years old to be completed next December, has a contract valid until June 30, 2023 (the automatic extension option was taken with the category jump just hit) and some answers to give: “I admit I have some team that wants me, but we have known it since last March.
I think it will also depend a lot on the final result », he declared before the return of the promotion play-offs and these words also fuel the hopes of the Venetian club to see him again on the orange-green bench.
But is Udinese also among those teams who thought of Zanetti last March? Yes, if only because a few days earlier, at the end of February, Gino Pozzo had expired the option of automatic renewal of Gotti’s contract that was in his hands.
The reason? He wanted to see how Contarina’s coach would fare in the season finale by raising the bar beyond normal salvation. The results (8 defeats in the last 11 days) show that he did not make sparks, but the alibi of injuries, especially in attack, from Nacho Pussetto a Gerard Deulofeu, passing through Ilija Nestorovski e Jayden Good, holds.
The other club that follows Zanetti is Sampdoria that he must replace Claudio Ranieri and that has Marco Giampaolo as a hypothesis of a welcome return to the square and to the president Massimo Ferrero.
He ds Carlo Osti, on the other hand, he spent a word on Gotti himself in case of leaving Udinese, but it is in Bologna where the Contarina coach, thanks to the excellent relations with the sporting director Riccardo Bigon, boasts some admirers, now that the Parma track that yesterday announced has disappeared Enzo Maresca, City coach under 23, to go up from B.
As you can see, despite the tourbillon good coaches are a rare commodity in Serie A, those out of the loop or replaced in recent months, like Rolando Maran (one more year of contract at 900 thousand euros with Genoa) are not very convincing, they do not exalt, not only in a black and white key, so much so that Sassuolo, just greeted Roberto De Zerbi, finished at Shakhtar Donetsk, is thinking of an old Friulian acquaintance, the Spaniard Julio Velazquez (unlucky with Udinese in 2018 after the investiture received by Gino Pozzo) for the neroverde bench.
Velazquez, however, seems willing to continue his adventure in Portugal with Maritimo, but the candidacy tells of Italian clubs looking for unconventional solutions in this technical market.
In short, it is worth leaving the old road for a suburban “carretera”. They are also asking Udinese, especially after knowing that Gotti would also accept an annual renewal at the same figures as last season. –
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