Gennaro Gattuso's unexpected reaction after losing first place “” It's only half as long as you wrote! “
Article by Daniel Scorpie – published Monday, 05 May 2025, 20:56 / Updated Monday, May 05, 2025 21:02
Gennaro Gattuso gave up the leading position in 1. HNL, with three stages before the end of the championship, after the failure suffered on Saturday in the derby with Dinamo Zagreb (1-3). His coach Hajduk Split However, he had an unexpectedly calm reaction when he heard that the Croatian Treasury made his salary public.
His team fell to the third place, two points behind the Dinamo Zagreb champion and three “lengths” by the new Rijeka leader, 2-1 winning with HNK Gorica. And the 47-year-old Italian coach could escape the title and thus endanger his job, even if he still has a SPLIT commitment until June 30, 2026.
This is after another former international and world champion with Squadra Azzurra, Fabio Cannavaro, was recently fired from Dinamo Zagreb. Gattuso is ten months old at Hajduk's technical management and 40 matches.
Gennaro Gattuso: “It is more difficult to lose the first place”
At the press conference after its ninth defeat. Rino Gattuso was scratched by Croatian journalists on the always sensitive theme of the money that the coaches earned. They did it under the conditions of the local fiscal authorities gave the salary paid by Hajduk, just over 450,000 euros annually.
Gennaro Gattuso is Hajduk Split's coach from July 1, 2024 / Photo: Imago
“It does not bother me, however, there is a long time talking about it, so you see how much I really earn. At most half what is said,” the Italian said quite quietly.
Hajduk's coach also confessed that there are no problems for the future: “It is more difficult to leave the first place in the ranking with only three remaining matches in the championship than to read in newspapers how much money you receive.”
The former Italian midfielder arrived in Croatia at the eighth team of his coach's career, after Palermo, Offic Crete, Pisa, Milan, Napoli, Valencia and Marseille. Rino started with the left the new adventure, missing the qualification in the group of conference League, after being eliminated in the third preliminary round of Ruzomberok (0-1 overall)!
