NAPOLI WILL BE REINFORCED FOR THE CHAMPIONS
Napoli will go for three reinforcements in winter with their sights set on Barça
Published:6/01/2024 - 16:50h
Updated:6/01/2024 - 16:50h
Napoli's bad moment in Serie A (eighth, 20 points off the lead) has led the 'partenopea' board to approve a record budget to reinforce itself in the winter market. For Walter Mazarri's men, the priority is the Champions League
The Napoli will go to by three reinforcements in the wintry market thinking in the crossing of eighth of final of the UEFA Champions League in front of the FC Barcelona. As it advances 'The Gazzeta dello Sport', the group 'partenopeo' has in looks it to a central and two midfield players to reinforce a staff that, in the first-half of season, has harvested like only success the surpass the phase of groups of the maximum competition of clubs of Europe.
To a day of the closing of the first turn of the Series To, the ones of Walter Mazzarri leave eighth in the table, to 20 points of an Inter of Milan that has to the Juventus like only conteniente by the title. The Napoli began the season with Rudi García in the bench, but the Frenchman grieve directed 16 parties of which only won the half. The arrival of the experienced Italian trainer did not suppose a mejoría important and his president, Aurelio Of Laurentis, does not want to lose time to look for reinforcements that allow to save the season of the valid Italian champion.
The Napoli has 60 'kilos' in box to reinforce
In this sense, 'The Gazzeta dello Sport' ensures that the managerial napolitana has approved a budget of 60 million euros to reinforce in January. After the arrival of the right side of the Salernitana, Pasquale Mazzocchi, by 3 'kilos', the group 'partenopeo' is very near to close the signing of the mediocentro Serbian Lazar Samardzic (21 years), current player of the Udinese whose traspaso rondará the €20m.
Another footballer to 'shot' of the Napoli is the central Radu Dragusin (21 years). The Romanian also is in the orbit of the Tottenham, but the Italians will look for to ensure his traspaso with a barter that include to two of his players for abaratar the cost of the defender, since the Génova remits to his clause (€30m) to leave him go in January. More difficult luce the negotiation by the midfield player Boubakary Soumaré (24 years).
The French property of the Leicester has played 15 parties (1.007 minutes) with the Seville to loan and, to negotiate his traspaso, first would be necessary to convince to the group hispalense to break his cession before seating to speak with the 'foxes'. In principle, the English group will ask 15 'kilos' to close his sale, a mount chord to his current value in Transfermarkt (€14m).
The Champions, the table of salvation of the Napoli in the 23/24
Without options to revalidate the title in the Series To, the Napoli wants to bet everything to the Champions, a tournament in which the past season sacked with flavour agridulce in the quarter-finals. The then team of Luciano Spalletti arrasó in league, but could not surpass to the AC Milan in a key where the ones of the south of Italy were clear favourites (2-1 global for the 'rossoneros'). This season, the Napoli will have to confront again to a Barça that already deleted them of the Champions in eighth in 2020 and in the 'playoff' of the Europe League does a pair of seasons.