De Laurentis, president of Napoli, has revealed that Luis Enrique has turned down the job as manager because he has his eyes on England
In the Premier League they are already waiting with open arms for the Asturian coach, and teams like Tottenham will push hard to get their services
After the departure of Luis Enrico as coach of the ‘Rossa’ last December, everything indicates that his fate is approaching Englandand now it is the president of Napoli who fuels the fire of these speculations.
Aurelio De Laurentis, top manager of the Neapolitan team, after admitting contacts with the former Spanish coach, confessed that “Luis Enrique told us no because he wants to go to the Premier League”, statements that set the British media on fire.
With the unexpected departure of Luciano Spalletti, coach and main architect of the scudetto from Napoli after 33 years of drought, the gap on the Azzurrini bench is enormous and from the club they had thought of the Asturian as the perfect substitute.
“We compete with leagues that are more attractive than oursDe Laurentis admitted it, confessing that Luis Enrique intends to occupy a bench in the ‘Top Six’ in England, with the Tottenham as the best candidate to get their services.
The London club had its worst season in the last ten years, and that’s it His eighth-place finish will leave him without European football next yeara gigantic problem for a multimillion-dollar project that has names of the greatest elite such as Kane, Son, Pedro Porro and Kulusevski,
The authoritarian profile of Luis Enrique together with his tactical skills make their fit ideal at a club like Tottenhamwith one surely underdog idiosyncrasy in English football, namely that despite his high spending over the past five years, the windows have been empty since 2008.