Napoli have appointed Carlo Ancelotti as their new head coach on a three-year contract. He will be replacing Maurizio Sarri in the post. Sarri’s departure was confirmed after president Aurelio De Laurentiis said that time had run out for the coach to commit his future to the Partenopei.
Napoli collected a club-record 91 points but missed out on the Serie A title to Juventus, who won a seventh successive Scudetti. Ancelotti will have the responsibility of ending Juve’s dominance in Italy. The former Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain coach has been unemployed after he was sacked by Bayern Munich in September.
Sarri, on the other has been strongly linked with a move to another of Ancelotti’s former clubs, Chelsea. There he would succeed Antonio Conte, who looks set to leave Stamford Bridge despite delivering the FA Cup.