Aurelio De Laurentiis admits Napoli’s San Paolo “needs to be restyled,” but snipes at “money-wasters" Manchester City.

The President is in Britain for tonight’s Champions League match and took a tour around Old Trafford before heading to the City of Manchester Stadium.

“The English are extraordinary and build stadiums that bring a lot of income. They even have a cell in the arena in case of violent incidents. I have never been able to understand why we can’t do similar things in Italy,” said the Hollywood mogul.

“Napoli cannot grow on its own. Football is industry and without the right laws we’ll continue to struggle on a purely financial basis.”

Juventus inaugurated the first stadium to be owned by a Serie A club in Italy and more are eager to follow suit if the red tape issues are cleared.

“The San Paolo needs to be restyled. As Napoli have to continue playing in that stadium, the work will take four to seven years. I have two plans, it depends on what we want to do.”

However, De Laurentiis took a sideswipe at tonight’s opponents Manchester City and the huge investments made by owner Sheikh Mansour.

“Does Michel Platini want to make this financial fair play rule or not? Is it going to be respected? In any case, I have fun challenging money-wasters.”

It’s this kind of comment that has got the Napoli President into trouble with the British tabloid Press, along with alleged insults towards the attractiveness of the average woman in this country.

“They lie. I studied in England in the early 1970s and say the English women, if beautiful, are extraordinarily so. I adore the English countryside and the tabloids just spread falsehoods to fire people up.”

De Laurentiis

Poor mans Zamp

Gil wrote:Poor mans Zamp

He actually brought Napoli to Champions League, unlike Zamp... so I beg to differ

:lol!: English women.

Magricos wrote: :lol!: English women.

Typical English Media always false with their gossip rumors

NOice coverup...

“Does Michel Platini want to make this financial fair play rule or not? Is it going to be respected? In any case, I have fun challenging money-wasters.”

Camurrìa.Sto.Stronzo wrote:

Magricos wrote: :lol!: English women.

Typical English Media always false with their gossip rumors

It is'nt just English media, all media is sensationlist bullsh*t and i frankly i hate it, the whole world would be better off if the media did'nt exist.....

Immaculate_Mole wrote:

Camurrìa.Sto.Stronzo wrote:

Magricos wrote: :lol!: English women.

Typical English Media always false with their gossip rumors

It is'nt just English media, all media is sensationlist bullsh*t and i frankly i hate it, the whole world would be better off if the media did'nt exist.....

Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Syria all disagrees with you.

Although Bahrain who is being screwed by corrupt media kinda agrees.

(I know what you meant but I am being an ass)

Technically money is never wasted. It's just recycled.

english_jewel wrote:Technically money is never wasted. It's just recycled.

That is untrue in our current economic climate. Money is more probably being horded than used, and if used more probably to pay off debt. Anyway, a great part of the current recession is that money was basically traded as more than it is, and now money is not being recycled.

When you pay for something more than its value, you threaten the value to increase for other buyers, but since the thing does not have that value, inflation is caused and hence, Money is in fact being wasted.