Rudi Garcia insisted that all he wanted to do was “to make our supporters happy”. “It’s been too long since we won a game at home,” he told Italy’s Sky Sport as his Napoli team prepared to kick off against Empoli. “That’s extra motivation for us. We want to do everything we can.”
Those might have been his final remarks as manager of the Partenopei. Napoli lost 1-0 and the club’s owner, Aurelio De Laurentiis, imposed a press silence at full-time. He was understood to be exploring his options to replace Garcia on Monday, a decision that some fans might celebrate even more enthusiastically than a win.
