Napoli, hat-trick on the market for the scudetto: Danilo, Fagioli and Pellegrini are popular

Naples, 25 December 2024 – Aurelio De Laurentiis and the January market, a combination that has not always gone hand in hand despite the contingencies of the moment. In both bad and good times, in fact, the owner has rarely intervened massively in the repair session, preferring therefore to trust the work done in the summer. However, there are years and years and coaches and coaches, and when you bring to the bench Antonio Conte, among other things without being able to offer them the stage of any continental competition, something extra must be done. Of course, just a few months ago they were even 150 the millions to come out of Castel Volturno to revolutionise the team that had imploded in itself after the championship, and that seemed like a huge investment sufficient to bring the Napoli laid down by the tenth position of the previous year to the area Champions League. In fact, according to today's ranking, even with theAtalanta first and with many asterisks to complicate the picture at the highest levels, it is like this, but the appetite comes with eating and along the way the Azzurri have shown that they can compete for something more. Hence the idea of De Laurentiis to (re)open the purse strings in January to try to further strengthen its Napoli in the name of that word scudetto which, intermittently, goes from taboo to diktat (and vice versa).  

Names for January

  The first emergency actually goes well beyond the ambitions of the owner and his team: the injury occurred to Alessandro Good morning in recent days it is anything but trivial and will request evaluations for another defender. Evaluations among other things already standing previously to lengthen the defensive rotations. Then the stop of the former Turin, which risks returning in late January, have accelerated the process that leads to the suggestion Danilo, the dream of Tale probably since the summer which can now take shape in the next few weeks: especially if James Raspadori, which has long been in the crosshairs of the Juventus, actually took the opposite route. So far the Napoli, despite his limited use on the pitch, has always retained the 2000-born player, considered a valuable wildcard in various areas of the pitch. The same Breakers, in turn, has always been able to assert himself in the moments granted on the green rectangle, but the impression is that, despite the fine words, the feeling with Tale never exploded. Hence the opening to the hypothesis of transforming the former golden boy of Italian football into a bargaining chip with the bitter rival Juventus, which he received just a few months ago from De Laurentiis a total closure in and out. Instead, as often happens, the president knows how to contradict himself and probably even bluff, and today precisely the Old lady, from which the new sporting director also comes John Manna, is the main focus, almost a model, to shape the rebirth of his creature. The first brush strokes have gone well, but now the time could come for the final finishing touches which, just to stay within the scope of black and white hues, could also include Nicolo Fagioli, another prospect that intrigues quite a bit in the area of Castel Volturno. From the experience of Danilo to the freshness and talent that has perhaps not yet fully exploded (also due to the well-known extra-football events) of beans: these are the main names for January for the Napoli, which however also looks at the Roma and another rather critical situation at those latitudes. Something between Lorenzo Pellegrini, the child of the country, and the Giallorossi have been cracking for some time in the context of a very complicated year, to the point that trigory everything is up for discussion: even the continuation of the adventure of Pellegrini, on which the Neapolitan club is keeping an eye on in order to try to seize an opportunity, even at a bargain price. The possible addition of the class of '96 would be balsamic first of all for Romelu Lukaku and not only because of the knowledge that had already taken place last season, but also to bring the departments closer together and act as a glue, thus giving further polish to the offensive phase of the Azzurri. Up to now this task, with comforting results, has been carried out mainly by Scott McTominay and in the last matches from a Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa on the rise, but adding an arrow to their bow can only be a good thing. Especially for an ambitious club like the Neapolitan one, in which even King Midas De Laurentiis he began to question himself.

De Laurentiis' self-criticism

  Speaking in the last few hours to the microphones of Radio Crc for the usual good wishes Christmas to his own team, the owner has made mea culpa for some personal choices that he said were decisive for what happened last year, with a post-scudetto collapse that was practically unparalleled. For a president who is attentive to records like ADL, the flop of last season was and still is a stain to be washed away in every possible way. Indeed, in football there is only one: to immediately write an even better page, perhaps even returning to winning. So far, the owner has done everything possible to follow through on these intentions: hiring one of the best coaches on the market and a pharaonic market in the summer, not surprisingly, have led the Napoli at the top of the rankings. These two steps alone, with hindsight, give us an idea of ​​how much in reality De Laurentiis already during the summer season he dreamed of something more than the 'simple' return to Champions League after a dry year: imagine now that, almost halfway through the championship, the team has responded as best as possible to the summer solicitations, going beyond all expectations. So, in addition to the radio mea culpa, mitigated later by the admission of the presence of other 'guilty parties' not to be mentioned just because the list would be too long, is it possible that ADL do much more in the upcoming winter session. Such as making a hat-trick of championship wins with Danilo, beans e Pellegrini.

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