The Dutch champion ruled out his signing in winter and Napoli took his record
This Tuesday both teams will face each other for the Champions
8 days of Serie A have been played and Napoli looks at the rest of the teams from the top. Together with Atalanta, the Neapolitan team leads the Italian league undefeated with 20 points. One of the architects of this great start to the team’s season is barely 21 years old. In his debut season in Calcio, Georgian international Khvicha Kvaratskhelia has lived up to expectations of young promise with which he arrived in the south of Italy, to the regret of Ajax. This Tuesday Napoli and Ajax will face each other at the Johan Cruyff Arena on matchday three of the Champions League.
Kvaratskhelia can already boast of five goals and two assists in the first two months of competition. The player landed in Napoli from Dinamo Batumi, from his country, in exchange for 10 million euros. The level of the striker, who is even international with Georgia, confirms the success of his signing. he was declared best player in Serie A in August and in the ‘partenopea’ squad they celebrate everything good that happens to them.
Those who view the striker’s high performance with suspicion are the Eredivisie champions. Ajax had the opportunity to sign the Georgian star in the last winter transfer window. He was offered to the Dutch giant when he was still playing for Dinamo Batumi. However, and according to Shota Arveladze, a former Georgian Ajax player, his signing was discarded for his “high price”, among other reasons: “We had little time and the price of fifteen million euros was too high. Ajax wanted to pay nine to twelve million. In the end, Napoli bought it for ten,” lamented Arveladze. “Sometimes those things happen & rdquor ;, she concluded.