Italian coach Luciano Spalletti owns a farm in the village of Remesa in the Italian hills of Tuscany, known for its picturesque nature, and for two years he has been studying, arranging and making plans in preparation for a crushing training return with Napoli.
While he was still on Inter Milan's payroll after being replaced by Antonio Conte, Spalletti spent two years studying the work of football's most successful coaches and refining his own ideas about the game.
He revealed, "In the silence of Remesa, I find new solutions because I am alone and touch the depths of my soul."
Since his return to football, he led Napoli to return to the Champions League, topped the Italian League and qualified for the final price of the continental championship this season.
Spalletti's men - who have not yet been defeated locally or continentally - scored 50 goals in 17 matches.
Among the 50 goals, Nigerian striker Victor Osimhen scored 7 goals (including a hat-trick last Saturday against Sassuolo) and his Georgian colleague Khvicha Kvaratskhelia 6 goals in 12 matches in Calcio.
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The team also succeeded in reducing 11 million euros from the wage bill, and despite dispensing with star players such as Lorenzo Insigne, Calido Coulibaly and Fabian Ruiz, it signed with unknown footballing gems such as Kvaratskilla and South Korean international Kim Min Jae.
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Last season, the southern Italian team hit the injury curse, and lost the bet of the club's pursuit of the first Scudetto title since the team won two titles during the era of the late legend Diego Maradona.
For the fans and the media, last season represented a missed opportunity, doubts arose about Spalletti's abilities, and a banner from "Ultra Napoli" demanded Spalletti to leave, but in the end he finished third behind the poles of Milan and led the team to play in the Champions League.
At the beginning of this season, bettors preferred Milan, Inter, Juventus and Rome, but Napoli Spalletti and his coaching staff hit in all directions - so far - locally and continental and devouring every team they face.
In the first period in Rome, Sabalti brought out the best in Francesco Totti, and devised plans to increase his quality to the maximum extent as the fake "9" striker, and in his second period with the "wolves" of the Italian capital, Edin Dzeko scored 39 goals, and also contributed to the arrival of Mohamed Salah. And Radja Nainggolan to new levels.
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In Naples, he turned Stanislav Lobotka and Amir Rahmani - who played only a few minutes under former coach Gattuso - into influential players in the team within a year.
He also restored confidence in Andre Frank Zambo Anguisa, and even Tanguy Ndombele, loaned from Tottenham, is starting to return to its previous levels.
Some in Italy are still bent on playing down the 63-year-old Spalletti for not winning the Scudetto, but he could change stereotypes this season at home and on the continent.
Spalletti led Udinese to the Champions League for the first time, and with Roma he won 3 local titles and got close to Calcio, and returned Inter to the Champions League after an absence of 6 years, and won the Russian League twice with Zenit, and with all the teams he coached he always played beautiful and offensive football.
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In the summer of 2008, he was close to training Chelsea, and the choice of the club's owner at the time, Roman Abramovich, was between him and his compatriot and old friend Carlo Ancelotti.
However, Chelsea appointed Brazilian Luis Felipe Scolari, who did not succeed with the "Blues", and within a year the latter was sacked and the London team contracted with Ancelotti, who was his first step outside Italy on a journey that made him coach the greatest clubs in Europe and add two Champions League titles with Real Madrid to the Two titles he won with Milan.
Spalletti was not lucky to move to the world of coaching outside Italy to prove his abilities and capabilities, but it seems that his farm contributed to returning the spirit to his coaching career and arranging his ideas, and the biggest evidence is that he presents the best football in Italy currently and among the best in the old continent.