UDINE. The rumors that have been bouncing from Genoa in recent days were not so “disconnected”. The confirmation just before the kick-off in Marassi: Claudio Ranieri actually negotiated with Gino Pozzo, but the voice is not to be compared to the future of Udinese – as had been reported -, but to Watford, which yesterday exonerated the Spaniard Xisco Muñoz, the coach of the promotion to the Premier after a year in the purtagorio of the Championship.
“The management believes that the recent performances clearly indicate a negative trend while at this moment the cohesion of the team should grow visibly.”
The 41-year-old Muñoz, a former player, caught by Gino Pozzo even in Georgian football, at Dinamo Tblisi, lasted less than a year at Watford, as he had inherited the bench of Vladimir Ivic last December 20 to pack an authentic and welcome undertaking , the leap in category, to the delight of the Hornets fans and the budgets decimated by Covid, given that playing in the top flight guarantees record collections from TV.
The idyll ended after 7 points this season and a 1-0 defeat on Saturday to Marcelo Bielsa’s Leeds. Muñoz was relieved of his post, while the Giallonera owners intensified contacts with Ranieri who, paired with Udinese, was just not convincing, first of all for the engagement, given that he had just returned from a contract with Sampdoria for over a million. and 800 thousand euros.
Too many for the salary habits of the Juventus “parish”. A figure that, on the other hand, in the golden Premier can be guaranteed, even if it is clear that the Roman coach, one step away from 70 years, in accepting Watford has negotiated with Pozzo on the prospects of his umpteenth English contract, the fourth after the experiences at Chelsea, Fulham and above all at Leicester City, with which he surprisingly won the title in 2016. Today there will be the signing under a contract which, according to rumors bouncing from Hertfordshire, should be two years.
In terms of Udinese, the extent of the rumor that, reported by the Genoese web magazines, traveled hand in hand with that of Ranieri, referring to contacts with Marco Giampaolo, formerly of Sampdoria too, an old passion of Gino Pozzo who, however, thanks to the experiences with Milan and Turin he had come to earn important figures in terms of engagement, even higher than two million, however difficult to replicate now in the request centers, considering the negative epilogues, culminating with two exemptions.
That voice until proven otherwise has only the appearance of the alternative to Ranieri for the lame Watford.
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