After Napoli struggled in their opening matches of the season, their outspoken owner Aurelio De Laurentiis had decided enough was enough. Ancelotti, clearly not on board with the decision, decided to speak out in his pre-match press conference. “FIFPro believes that the ad-hoc decision of Napoli forbidding players to go home and re-join their families, following the match against RB Salzburg, was unjustified. “The players of Napoli cannot be subjected to arbitrary decisions of a disenchanted club when the result of a match is unsatisfactory. “Technical matters are not the responsibility of club directors and we support Ancelotti and the players of Napoli for their united stand in clearly difficult times.

Source: Forbes November 30, 2019 11:03 UTC