Naples market: Danso for Kim, Kubo takes over Lozano

Another important week has begun for the future of Napoli, the one that Luciano Spalletti continues to consider rosy, without however wanting to talk about his own future: “The club will do it when it deems it appropriate”. And the first step will be that of a shared choice between Aurelio De Laurentiis and his coach. In the sense that the president had announced that he had exercised the option that blocks the coach from the Scudetto, then Friday’s dinner served a bit to clarify and discuss. The next step will be to discuss the lawyers, for Spalletti’s eldest son, the lawyer Samuele, to draw up what should be the new two-year agreement. If everything goes smoothly, the announcement should take place on Thursday, when the two protagonists of the Scudetto will be together at the presentation of the Trentino summer retreat, in Dimaro, Val di Sole. Also yesterday, when collecting the Bulgarelli award in Bologna, the coach reiterated : “Napoli will have a brilliant future. Then you want to interpret…”. All right, let’s wait for official communications then, having said that in any case it is not an economic problem between the parties, because Spalletti has never put it on that level.

De Laurentiis’ agenda

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However, the president has set a schedule to restart quickly with the project. During the week, the definition of all aspects with the coach, then probably in the next he will dedicate himself to closing the relationship with the sporting director Cristiano Giuntoli, now outgoing and, starting from an excellent scouting sector, he will also have to choose a new sporting director, with the choice that appears restricted to Pietro Accardi of Empoli and Ciro Polito of Bari. Everything will have to be defined by the end of the championship because then it will be necessary to intervene promptly on the market. What Spalletti himself acknowledges to the club: “Napoli, and this type of club, are used to planning, even if now it’s not like it used to be because you have to be ready to change tickets and destinations suddenly. The club showed that we are equipped to do this type of thing, last year we replaced some elements at the last moment with top-level solutions. And now we are starting again to work without regrets and debts of gratitude: this philosophy of the Spalletti club has married a year ago, proving to be the perfect manager of all the resources that have been made available to him, demonstrating, to give a concrete example, that he knows how to give up his beloved and esteemed Kalidou Koulibaly to obtain an even better result with Kim Min-jae .

Kim leaving

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Now that the South Korean seems destined for England, with triple engagement offers and a clause that allows him to release himself by paying a figure of around 50 million, Napoli will not stand there feeling sorry for themselves but will be looking for new talent. Among central defenders, one seems to be at the head of the wish list today: it is the Austrian of Ghanaian origins Kevin Danso, born in 1998, currently at Lens. Imposing physique, 190 centimetres, good feet (he was also a halfback) and an excellent scorer. If Napoli can move ahead of the competition, they will be able to avoid bullish games on the price tag, which shouldn’t be more than 15 million euros. That’s why De Laurentiis wants to resolve internal issues within this month – on the coach and sporting director – so that he can then proceed quickly to avoid wasting money and energy.

External question

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It will be the sector to be strengthened on an offensive level. Because there is no doubt that with Kvaratskhelia a very significant step forward has been taken in terms of competitiveness. But at the same time the Mexican Lozano should be out, even if his injury will end up causing a real negotiation to slip at the end of August, that is, when the Mexican will be well again. This slows down a market decision. Because Napoli have thought of solutions but in this case they are waiting for the certainty of the exit, before signing a new player. And on these characteristics the Japanese Takefusa Kubo, born in 2001, is very much liked, a very well technically gifted winger who has already passed through the youth teams of Barcelona and Real Madrid. Now he is always finding his maturity in La Liga, at Real Sociedad. It is one of those operations that De Laurentiis would like to carry out in order to further open up to the Eastern world, with what it entails from a marketing and commercial point of view. The new Naples will be shaped without delay and with new resources.