Luciano Spalletti: Manager of Serie A champions Napoli to take year-long sabbatical

Napoli are 16 points wide of Lazio with 1 Serie A crippled remaining astatine the extremity of Luciano Spalletti's 2nd play successful charge

After guiding Napoli to a archetypal Serie A rubric successful 33 years, manager Luciano Spalletti is taking a year-long sabbatical, says the club's president.

Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis said helium would "respect" the decision.

Speaking to Italian broadcaster Rai, De Laurentiis said: "He's a escaped man, he's fixed america thing and I convey him, it's close that helium does what helium wants."

The nine won their archetypal Italian top-flight rubric since 1990 connected 4 May, with 5 games to spare, and reached the Champions League quarter-finals, signaling victories implicit Liverpool, Ajax and Rangers during the radical stage.

Former Roma, Celta and Barcelona manager Luis Enrique, who near his presumption arsenic Spain brag pursuing the 2022 World Cup, is Napoli's "ideal candidate" to win Spalletti, Corriere dello Sport has reported.

Napoli, who drew 2-2 astatine Bologna connected Sunday, play their last lucifer of the play astatine location to Sampdoria adjacent Sunday.

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