the club was bought by a film producer, aurelio de laurentiis, and, in his words, he only had "a pieceomething changed with the arrival of aurelio de laurentiis. the president had a really complicated relationship with the city, with the supporter, because the supporter doesn't like the power and he represented the power. 0ur president has never been so popular because he always followed his idea of the team as a brand, an industry. we like to have a president that be a fan and not a manager — he was a manager, not a fan. i think that aurelio de laurentiis came because it was really cheap to buy naples in that time, so he took an economic advantage because, in that time, he was able to buy napoli with an amount of money which was maybe not worth the impression of the people. worth the passion of the people. he was very clever, let's say because he say, "ok, now we have no team but we still have the people, we still have the fans." they were in the third division of italian football but loyal fans still came, over 50,000 for theirfirst serie c match against cittadella. there was promoti