Gray start to the season for the Spaniard from Sevilla: the Azzurri return to the assault already in January after the negotiations carried out for several weeks this summer
What done boss has. But sometimes even those that evaporated due to force majeure, well, they can always be re-grasped – through the art of diplomacy – and re-tied. For an entire summer, more or less, Juanlu Sanchez became the market’s catchphrase: and then, suddenly, from the blablabla of that quarter – “he’s coming”, “no, he’s about to leave”, “only the details are missing”, “he’s granted priority” – silence developed sensationally. The stories deflate unexpectedly, even without losing interest: Juanlu Sanchez (22 years old, he has now turned 22) was seriously on the doorstep of Castel Volturno but when Lukaku was injured on 14 August, the transfer strategy collapsed, the priority became the striker and Sevilla’s doors unexpectedly closed. An old friend of Manna’s, Alessio Secco, general director of Juventus about fifteen years ago and now an international agent, had opened them up: a video (“prisoner”) from 12 June reveals a secret negotiation but not even that much and from that moment on, any attempt at denial has been decisively dismantled.
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Napoli has never stopped believing in Juanlu Sanchez, in reality – and in a low voice – he represents a regret and when in January they start again with the “waltz”, Manna will try again hoping to be luckier: in the staff, and in perspective, a right winger must be looked for who can occasionally rest Di Lorenzo, who is about to turn 33 (but to be turned next August), who must be granted an heir. Manna has started flirting again from afar, with discretion, he has settled back in front of the television to follow Sevilla and that “fluidifier” that has been raging in the under 21s for quite a while and which also has a tendency to score: this time, it is going like this and like that, he has put together six appearances, one assist and two benches made in the last 180 minutes in the matches against Rayo Vallecano and Barcelona, but in the time that was granted to him, the Juanlu Sanchez who had imposed himself to the point of becoming a sort of very sweet obsession for Napoli’s transfer strategies reappeared.
plan b
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But in Spain there is more, and even in this case it could be said to be a “legacy” of the very recent past, of explorations that fall within the dynamics of the market: Marc Pubill (22) did very well in Almeria, a year ago, and in the summer he went to Atletico Madrid, where the spaces are not very large and he was “gifted”, a total of 37′, almost nothing. But what happened is still valid, what remains in the reports and databases of Castel Volturno and (above all) the sensations transmitted during an entire season with the Almeria shirt (40 matches between La Liga and Copa del Rey, one goal and five assists): the Pubill of which Napoli took notes must always be monitored and certain images from that time help us to remember it again, because sometimes they return.
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