The chelsea wing likes to Conte, but the blues should contribute to the engagement. The slopes for Church and Grealish remain open

by our correspondent Vincenzo D’Angelo

25 July – 07:39 – Dimaro Folgarida (TN)

When the suggestion turns on a dream. There is a new episode in the hunt outside Napoli, and it could be that of the turning point. Now also Mister X has a name and surname: it is Raheem Sterling, 31 years old to turn in December and a top career for years, where he won and marked tirelessly with the Manchester City shirt from 2015 to 2022. Beautiful times, which now seem only a distant memory. Today, Sterling is one of the many chelsea luxury redundancies and looks for a new challenge in football that matters. Probably far from England, where his appeal has collapsed in recent seasons: just 17 appearances last year with Arsenal, without goals. Chelsea went better in the first two seasons, from 2022 to 2024.

hiring node

Then, however, he ended up on the edge of the project and after the arrival of Maresca. Sterling still has two years of contract, but Chelsea would gladly get rid without asking for the moon. But more than the card, the large obstacle is represented by disproportionate engagement: Raheem earns over ten million net per year and a great contribution of the blues would be needed to think of closing the blow.

Waiting for ndoye

For details there will be time, meanwhile there is a direct contact between Naples and Chelsea in the last few days, while Manna still waits for a response from Bologna for the last proposal for Dan Ndoye. The Bologna player still remains the number one of the Italian champions, but the distance between the clubs has not yet been filled and now the Swiss has also opened to the possibility of moving to the Nottingham Forest, with which he has already found an agreement of almost five million euros per season. But the British for the tag did not even reach 30 million, while Bologna asks for 45. Napoli, on the other hand, has already reached 40 with the bonuses (loan from 9 million plus redemption of redemption to 26 and five other extras related to the objectives achieved) and could make another small effort on the fixed in the next few days. Will it be enough?

the other alternatives

It is possible that Manna and De Laurentiis do not intend to go further. Or who are afraid of remaining empty -handed. The idea is to complete the staff as soon as possible, to give Conte the missing piece for the retreat of Castel di Sangro, which will begin on July 30th. Thus started the casting of alternatives, which recently led to evaluate the Sterling profile. But on the blue DS notebook for days there have been the names of Federico Chiesa and Jack Galish, two other redundancies of the Bigs of the Premier. Church has not been summoned by Liverpool for the tour in Asia and his adventure in England already seems to the credits. Naples could give him the opportunity of the redemption, as long as the exterior reduces the economic claims. The same goes for Grealish, that the City even did not convene even for the Club World Cup. Jack in these days is on vacation in the Amalfi Coast and is training there. On Wednesday he was at dinner in Ralcello and who asked him to transfer to Naples, would have replied “Maybe”. Perhaps. Which means everything and nothing, but that is not a no. And that’s enough to understand that Napoli is hunting for a big blow. Now everything depends on NDOYE: if it jumps, then Napoli will go fishing among the luxury alternatives in England.



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