Igor Tudor and Lazio president Claudio Lotito have reached an agreement in principle. The coach will be appointed to update Maurizio Sarri next week. Former assistant Giovanni Martusciello will advise the Frosinone rivals.
According to SportMediaset, the Croatian was the only coach the Biancocelesti met with. The parties quickly reached an agreement. He will sign an 18-month contract with an option for one more season and earn €2. 5 million per year.
Lazio will be Tudor’s third Italian team after Udinese and Verona. He finished ninth with the Scaligeri in their Serie A campaign. He also helped Andrea Pirlo at Juventus and has controlled Galatasaray, Hajduk Split and Olympique de Marseille in recent years. The captain left the French team due to internal turbulence after finishing last season in 3rd place.
The 45-year-old, who has long played for the Old Lady and Siena, is making a deal to return to the peninsula a few months after being left at the altar by Napoli. He had some peaks with Aurelio De Laurentiis after the dismissal of Rudi García. However, neither of them clicked.
He has forged himself in his past tenures, reflecting the intense philosophy of Gian Piero Gasperini and Ivan Juric, but he has never coached a team of this caliber in Italy. Hiring comes with a threatening detail as they will have to adapt the team to another. trend and because it’s a bit brutal at the edges.
This article was first published in The Cult of Calcio and was reprinted with permission.
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