Ex-Roma director predicts Conte’s Premier League return

Ex-Roma director Gianluca Petrachi, an in depth good friend of Antonio Conte, predicts the ex-Juventus and Inter coach will return to the Premier League.

Conte is with out a membership since leaving Tottenham by mutual settlement in March 2023. He’s been linked with Milan and Napoli in Serie A, however rising stories recommend one other overseas membership will appoint him in 2024-25.

Bild reported final week that Conte’s dream membership is Bayern Munich.

Petrachi, an in depth good friend and a former teammate of Conte at Lecce, believes the Italian tactician will return to the Premier League in the summertime.

“Conte is a really bold particular person and earlier than choosing the following membership, he’ll analyse each element,” he instructed TV Play, as quoted by TMW.

“I believe he’ll return to the Premier League as a result of, in Italy, there are too many talks and never sufficient soccer. After all, Italy can be a precedence if there was an necessary challenge, however proper now, I can’t see a Serie A membership that may get Conte.”

Conte hasn’t solely gained 4 Serie A titles as a coach, three at Juventus and one at Inter, but additionally grew to become Premier League champion in his first season at Chelsea and gained the FA Cup in his second and closing marketing campaign at Stamford Bridge.

On the similar time, Petrachi has been linked with Napoli who changed Cristiano Giuntoli with Mauro Meluso final summer time.

“Napoli are an necessary membership and what they’ve finished over the previous couple of seasons is extraordinary,” admitted the Italian director.

“They’ve at all times carried out on the highest ranges in Italy and in Europe. I’ve a giant motivation to affix a membership like this, however clearly, it’s not as much as me.

“Aurelio De Laurentiis should act because the president and, on the similar time, he should enable a director to work, that’s the way it works in another enterprise. I’ve at all times thought Aurelio is a visionary, however he was the primary one to confess that some errors have been made this season.”