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Napoli, De Laurentiis 'dreams' of European Super Cup tie with Juventus

Napoli, De Laurentiis 'dreams' of European Super Cup tie with Juventus

Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis has spoken today ahead of Napoli's Europa League tie with Red Bull Salzburg tomorrow evening. Carlo Ancelotti's side go into the game with a 3-0 advantage but will be well aware of what Salzburg are capable of; Marco Rose's side having eliminated Napoli's fellow Serie A side Lazio at the quarter-final stages of last season's tournament, despite Lazio coming into the game with the advantage.

Speaking from Salzburg, De Laurentiis said:

"Insigne? I don't think he's on the market. There is no price for him and there are no clauses.

"If I have to reduce my gap with the big European teams, but I'm talking about any team, I should be in debt because that costs 800-900 million, even Juve, which invoices 400-500m, should go into debt. I can't do it. I'm considered virtuous because I don't get into debt, I got into debt with myself when I put my own €100 million into the club to get back to Serie A right away. I think football will change over the next five years, I'm the only owner of the club and, after hearing my advisers and colleagues, I decided that I have no administrative councils. In other countries there are Arabs, in Spain it is still different, where not even Florentino is the real owner of Real. It is a disunited Europe, we hope that the ECA with Agnelli will be opposed to UEFA to succeed together in changing the rules of the game.

"​Juventus played a great game, even if Atletico and Simeone totally missed the ball. For us, tomorrow will be a complicated game, we play with two defenders who do not usually play together - in whom we put much faith - they must not play with shyness.

"European Super Cup in Istanbul against Juve? It would be a dream, the most beautiful present of my years as president."

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