Juvetus, Inter, Lazio, Milan and Atalanta are queuing up for a crack at the Scudetto after a summer of change in Italy
For Napoli, the great unknown is the manager. Luciano Spalletti has gone and the decision to replace him with Rudi Garcia was so unexpected that some of the club’s directors were reported to have learned about it from the Twitter account of the owner,Garcia has won a single league title, at Lille in 2011 with a team featuring a young Eden Hazard. He steeredto consecutive runners-up finishes during his previous stint in Italy before being fired midway through his third season.
Garcia will not try to reinvent the wheel, keeping a shape similar to Spalletti’s 4-3-3, but early indications are that he will have his team play with a less consistently high line. That would be a shift in identity for a side who often overwhelmed opponents with their constant readiness to press, to dribble and to make plans on the fly.
and Napoli did lose steam in the final months of last season. A league table formed of results from March would have them fourth and Lazio as champions., runners-up in the real standings, launch a serious challenge? Never say never, but Sergej Milinkovic-Savic’s departure for Al-Hilal leaves a gap that will be hard to fill. Rather than seek a direct replacement,
. Yet theirs has been a chaotic and sometimes humiliating transfer window. André Onana, Edin Dzeko, Romelu Lukaku, Marcelo Brozovic and Robin Gosens have gone and although only the first of those was a fixed starter, depth was a crucial asset last season.
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