The long-awaited Scudetto party in the city will still last weeks, but for Napoli it is already time to plan for the future. Because if winning a championship represents great satisfaction for the whole square, every club aspires to start a winning cycle. A project that does not end in a single season, but that extends over time, and the not so hidden desire of the president Aurelio De Laurentiis it is also to triumph in Europe: «Now we have to win the Champions League, because this year I think we were the strongest in the Champions League and only because of bad refereeing we went out. But this is football, this is UEFA, this is the world, so we’ll try again next year and again in the following years» says, with a little venom towards the top management of continental football, the blue patron.
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Words that will also make the fans dream, but they certainly don’t excite the Napoli coach Luciano Spalletti, who doesn’t send them to his president: «De Laurentiis says he wants to win the Champions. It’s too easy like this, he always says his best and always falls on his feet – Spalletti declared in response -. But he must talk to me about the future, he must not tell you.’ An exchange of views that anticipates a confrontation that will take place in the coming weeks to decide whether to continue together (which is not obvious, but probable) or say goodbye as Italian champions (the current agreement expires in June 2024 and the salary is 2. 8 million euros net per year).
DESIRE OF THE PREMIER
In any case, the future of Napoli also depends on the fate of Victor Osimhen, absolute ruler of the season, with 27 goals and 5 assists in 34 appearances in all competitions, and the object of desire of half of Europe. It is no longer a secret by now that the greats of the Premier League (with the exception of Manchester City, covered in attack with the Norwegian phenomenon Erling Braut Haaland), and Bayern Munich are ready to go crazy to win the performances of the 24-year-old Nigerian, perhaps triggering an auction that could exceed 100 million euros. De Laurentiis, therefore, has the choice whether to refuse the rich offers that will be delivered to the Napoli headquarters, and place the idol of the Osimhen fans at the center of the blue future, or sacrifice the centre-forward to collect a dizzying sum and invest at least part of it on the next market (Inter, for example, sold Romelu Lukaku to Chelsea two summers ago for 113 million and the operation proved to be a masterpiece).
It is clear that in the event of a sale, the Azzurri will have to go looking for a new striker, but two solutions are already in place, considering last summer’s purchases of Giacomo Raspadori (23 years old), from Sassuolo for 35 million, and Giovanni Simeone ( 27), for 15 million from Verona: two strikers who remained in the shadow of Osimhen, but reliable and ready to take flight without the cumbersome presence of the former Lille.
KIM QUESTION
Another player who could leave Naples is Kim Min-Jae (26). After all, the South Korean central defender has a release clause of around 50 million and it is not excluded that a top European club could pay it (at which point, obviously, the last word would be up to the player). Who, on the other hand, will certainly be a staple of the blue project is Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (22). Another ace of the Azzurri season, with 14 goals and 16 assists in 38 appearances, and ready to renew his contract with Napoli (he currently earns only 1.2 million net per season). Because if Osimhen’s departure would represent a hard blow to digest, both for the environment and technically, it would be too much to lose the two brightest stars of the third blue championship. But after all, the difficulty for Napoli is now.
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2023-05-06 23:03:00
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