The 2022–23 Serie A winners were defeated by Empoli on Sunday.

As thedailytimereads.com has learnt, Napoli owner Aurelio De Laurentiis has chosen to fire coach Rudi Garcia. The French manager was hired in the summer to succeed Scudetto-winning head coach Luciano Spalletti. After a dismal start to the season, which included a 1-0 loss at home to Empoli on Sunday, Garcia will be leaving the team. Napoli is now in fourth place with 21 points, ten points behind leaders Inter, having dropped their first three Serie A games at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona this season.

The primary causes of Napoli and Garcia’s failed marriage are listed below.

In less than two years, former Napoli coach Spalletti was able to instill a winning attitude in the team. In reality, the Azzurri were able to win a historic title under his leadership—the first since the days of Diego Armando Maradona. Among the challenging circumstances that Spalletti had to cope with was the one that caused important players to depart within the same transfer window in the summer of 2022, including Dries Mertens, Kalidou Koulibaly, and former captain Lorenzo Insigne. That was the pivotal moment that led to the title a few months later, as Spalletti had faith in his team and had built an ideal environment with Victor Osimhen, the team’s face, working with new additions like winger Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and defender Kim Min-Jae.

Spalletti and the team came to an agreement that worked. The club had never trusted the manager more, and the coach had accomplished in a few of months what had previously taken several managers years to accomplish. Up until the spring, Napoli produced some excellent football, but the coach’s environment between the players and the supporters also had a significant impact.

De Laurentiis had to choose a replacement coach after Spalletti made the decision to leave Napoli, and he chose to choose a person whose tactical philosophy could be carried on. Garcia was chosen as a result; Al-Nassr had fired him a few months prior. Although Garcia appeared to have the ideal personality, both on and off the pitch, things didn’t work out. While the French coach stuck to Spalletti’s tactical concepts, he was unable to replicate the same environment in the locker room.

Particularly, one episode explained why the coach and the dressing room were separated from one another. When Garcia was heading to the bench on September 24, against Bologna, Osimhen turned to face him and pointed with two fingers at him, telling him straight up that he ought to have tried to play with two central strikers. It sent a strong message to the world that Napoli’s locker room was not as strong as it had been during their Scudetto-winning season. Although the athlete expressed regret to the coach and the other players, this was a red flag.

Napoli, who have only lost to Real Madrid at the Maradona thus far in the UEFA Champions League, are in the running and in a good position to advance to the round of 16. However, they were unable to secure the victory after drawing at home against Union Berlin the previous week. Napoli finished with six wins, three draws, and three losses in the Italian league. Garcia paid with his career for what transpired off the pitch more so than the outcomes on it. De Laurentiis was unable to persuade Antonio Conte to accept the position during the most recent international break because the Italian manager would rather wait until the summer to accept a new position.

The manager’s position was automatically damaged by the very fact that Conte’s story went public and that the manager knew he couldn’t be completely trusted. The atmosphere and the supporters as a whole gave the impression that Garcia’s appointment as coach was only made official because Conte declined to accept the position. It’s simply a matter of time until you get fired after this occurs. It’s happening a month later, following another defeat in front of home supporters.