The player in question will team up with Castellanos during the upcoming season
It’s time to face reality for Ciro Motionless: he is no longer an indispensable pawn on the chessboard of any Biancoceleste coach, Sarri, Martusciello or Tudor whatever it is. The age – 34 years old last month – they make themselves heard and it’s time for the Sports Club Lazio to look to the future. And according to what is reported in today’s edition of La Gazzetta dello Sport, Lotito and his associates would have already identified the natural replacement for the Campania center forward. It’s John Simeona footballer increasingly on the margins of “project Naples“ and who is looking for playing time for next season.
Simeone pushes for the sale: Lotito knocks on Napoli’s door
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Below is what was highlighted by the newspaper:
“Another two months to live intensely, with the utmost commitment. Then, almost certainly, the paths of Lazio and Ciro Immobile will separate. Nothing has already been decided, for goodness’ sake. Among other things, with a new coach who has just arrived, the strategies for next season are still to be outlined. But the general feeling is that a story that lasted eight years, full of trophies, records and happy days, is at the end of the line. And the advent of Tudor, with a new cycle to open with younger players, makes all this inevitable.
Immobile still has two years left on his contract with Lazio. His farewell therefore essentially depends on him. And from the requests that may arrive. (…) Lazio waits and looks around. Replacing a giant like Ciro will not be an easy task. And, above all, without the certainty that the captain will leave next summer, it is rather complicated to move. Thus the first names circulating in Formello are those of elements who, although very valid, would serve more to complete the advanced department than to fill the void possibly left by Immobile. In pole position is Giovanni Simeone, who is pushing to leave Naples, where he isn’t having the space he wanted and would be happy to embrace Tudor again, with whom, in Verona, he lived his best season (17 goals in 35 games). Lazio had dealt with him at the end of that year, but then let go and the Argentine went to Napoli. The wedding could go through next summer. To the joy of dad Diego who wrote memorable pages with Lazio and who would be very happy to see his son in the Biancoceleste.”
