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Dialogue Resumes Between De Laurentiis and Manfredi…

The Zes service conference scheduled for today, where the Caramanico stadium proposed by Patron Aurelio De Laurentiis was to be discussed, has been postponed at the request of the Ssc Napoli's number one. But before delving deeper, there is another serious piece of news: Mayor Gaetano Manfredi and De Laurentiis have resumed talks about stadiums, in plural, and the future. Sources from Palazzo San Giacomo confirm that there has been contact between the Mayor and the President.

Manfredi made two points to De Laurentiis. The Maradona will function in any case for at least another 5 years and can thrive even without Napoli. The second point is that there are no objections to a new stadium, provided it is something concrete and feasible. Essentially, the project needs changes in some parts to be feasible for the Municipality. The Patron, according to leaks, stood firm and did not back down: he wants to build the new stadium at all costs. The meeting, to use a football term, ended in a draw, with no winners or losers. This leads to the suspension requested by De Laurentiis of the Zes service conference, possibly agreed upon to allow time for reflection on the next steps, to explore the possibility of reaching a shared solution within the Zes and avoiding conflicts.

At 12:27 yesterday, the Zes sent a Pec to Ssc Napoli from the SUDZes office of the city of NAPLES, asking, given the requirements in the practice, namely the Municipality's observations on the Caramanico project, for the Company to transmit any response. A minute later, the response from Ssc Napoli also came via Pec: The undersigned Cavalier Aurelio De Laurentiis, as stated in the Pec sent to the Zes, considering the need to counter the opinions issued by the relevant authorities, requests a postponement of the service conference, asking for an assignment of a period not less than 10 days to submit their observations. The Caramanico stadium issue should be resolved by October 18 at the latest, at least concerning the Zes. De Laurentiis writes "of opinions," and that plural opens new scenarios. Because it's not just the Municipality that has accepted the Caramanico project asking for changes, but certainly also the Metropolitan City, whose president is still Mayor Manfredi. And probably also the Campanian Water Authority, considering that where the new stadium would impact, there is a water lifter, a sewer in the room, that would need to be moved. There are thus several critical issues, those of the Municipality are now known: the excessive space that would occupy the parking lots, De Laurentiis has planned 8,000 parking spaces. And the big problem of the Caramanico markets that would have to move from their historic location and are asking for guarantees and a table with all parties involved. It concerns hundreds of families and jobs. "Observations" meaning urban planning issues. The Patron has asked for time to conduct and has put his technicians to work before flying to Manchester to enjoy his most beautiful film: Napoli with the tricolor in the Champions League.

The eternal discussion about Maradona and Caramanico, yesterday the sports commission chaired by Gennaro Esposito moved the Operational Director Stadium Manager of Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli Gianluca Baiesi. On the agenda were the safety works on some points of the Maradona thanks to 2 million from the Metropolitan City, a series of projects that generated a saving of an additional 350,000 euros to be invested again in the Maradona. Specifically, the ad hoc resolution "authorizes – at the request of Ssc Napoli – the integration of the 2019 multi-year Convention for the exclusive use of new internal spaces in the stadium: two hospitality rooms and the transformation of the Race Offices into the Honorary Tribune Hospitality Room, with a consequent increase in the concession fee to 887,814.88 euros plus VAT." An increase of a few thousand euros. The councilors would like it to be more substantial. This is Baiesi's reply: "Ready to collaborate but those now abandoned rooms we will return and they will remain with the Municipality. For the next 5 years, we will return to the Maradona then as the President wants, we will go to the new stadium. The Maradona is outdated, today we are not in compliance with UEFA regulations because we don't even have parking lots."

Carlo Gioia

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