Naples, Meret towards renewal until 2026

Alex Meret is the choice of Napoli, the dualism will soon no longer exist. The club has decided to focus on him for the future and in the coming weeks plans to introduce discussions for the renewal of the contract. The goalkeeper will expire in June next year and De Laurentiis would like to extend it until 2026. Obviously the new agreement is linked to the guarantees required by the player on a technical level. Since he was bought he has never managed to experience a period of absolute continuity and this time his future in blue is at stake, especially because in November there will be the World Cup and Meret wants to be part of the expedition if the national team were to qualify. He needs to play, to prove he deserves Roberto Mancini’s call over a rival like Cragno. As for Napoli it is also a question of opportunity: at the end of the season Ospina’s contract will expire and the company is currently oriented not to renew it, also considering the age of the Colombian who will turn 34 in August while Meret has nine in less. Furthermore, there is no need to have two high-profile goalkeepers in the squad at the same time and certainly the salary of a second will never be so huge. The cut would therefore be consistent with the policy of reducing the salary that the president wants to implement to make costs more sustainable.

In the field with Venice

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In any case, on returning from the stop, the Friulian will defend the Napoli goal against Venice. Ospina, currently involved in the South American qualifiers for the next World Cup, is struggling with food poisoning and will almost certainly not be in a position to take the field on Sunday. Meret will therefore start from the first minute for the fifth time in Serie A this year: he played the first two with Venice and Genoa, when he seemed to be the owner, and the last two against Bologna and Salernitana due to unavailability of the Colombian. In the middle of a back injury that made him lose his job, a lot of bench and positivity at Covid. Spalletti also used him for the Europa League and played in the Italian Cup, taking over at half-time against Fiorentina. In total there are 10 presences added up so far. Too few to impose himself, but enough to understand that he has all the potential to do so.