Moffi and Dovbyk are new names for the attack

A trio of aces for the attack, a replacement for Zielinski in midfield and a rocky defender to plug holes that have been leaking for an entire season. Napoli is thinking about the future, De Laurentiis has been taking into account for some time (and even in… cash) the probable transfer of Victor Osimhen, and has already hypothesized the budget to invest in the market for the refoundation/reconstruction of Naples to come. Most of the money to be used for the summer transfer market (around 200 million euros) will come from the sale of Osi.

The axis with France

The Nigerian striker remains in the sights of PSG which at the moment seems to be among the few top European clubs willing to evaluate the possibility of paying the clause (set at 120 million euros) to secure the services of the Napoli center forward. Secondly there is always the fascination of the Premier League with the Chelsea ahead. At the moment, however, the road to Paris seems the most viable. And it is not excluded that we can reason/negotiate even regardless of the clause established with Aurelio De Laurentiis last December when signing the extension of the contract with the Azzurri. We will see. Certainly Osimhen’s adventure in the shadow of Vesuvius is in the closing credits. Napoli have had their sights set on the youngster for some time Jonathan David (24 years old) from Lille who seems to have also ended up on Chelsea’s radar in the last few hours. The French are asking for 50 million euros for his contract. Lille also has an attacking winger who intrigues the new Azzurri management. It’s about Edon Zhegrova (11 goals and 9 assists so far), born in Germany but with a Kosovan passport, with which he will try to overcome the competition from Giuntoli’s Juventus. Evidently the transalpine championship intrigues the new management quite a bit given that the spotlight has also been put on Terem Moffi (25 years old) from Nice. The Nigerian striker, ironically Osimhen’s compatriot, has scored 10 goals so far, almost all with his left foot (his natural foot, with which he also asphalted PSG) and also willingly appears from eleven metres. The value of his price tag is around 30 million euros, but the figure is destined to rise. All eyes are also on the 22-year-old Santiago Gimenez playing for Feyernoord. The Mexican international (born in Buenos Aires) is making waves in Holland: 24 goals and seven assists this season.

The name of the talented player was marked in red on Napoli’s notebook Artem Dovbik, 26-year-old center forward for the Ukrainian national team playing for Girona, an absolute revelation in the Spanish championship thanks also to his goals (18 in La Liga). Dovbik, on whom there had already been many reports from top-flight scouts, had expressed his liking for the Belpaese. «I like Italy as a country and as a championship – he said in the past – My desire to do well in Europe is great, not all is lost after the less than happy experience in Denmark. Everything comes if you work hard to achieve the goal.” And the attacker has come a long way and has now been included in the Napoli ranks of the future.

The defense to be armored

There are not only strikers on De Laurentiis’ shopping list. Among the main objectives that the new director in pectore Giovanni Manna will have is to shore up above all the backward department which this year has been a Gruyère. Slovak David Hanko (26 years old) from Feyenoord is first on the list. But with the Dutch club there is still a certain distance between supply and demand: Napoli has put 22 million euros on the scale; Feyenoord asks for 30. And who knows, we might find the tare if the Gimenez operation also materializes (obviously at different figures). We will see. Last January, the Argentine Nehuen Perez he had already packed his bags to move to Naples from Udine. Then the deal fell through at the last moment with the promise to talk about it again in June. DeLa and Pozzo remained in contact…

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