Napoli eye Changuito Zeballos for the next half-season | OneFootball

The Italian club stepped up its push to sign Changuito, who will not renew his contract with Xeneize and will leave in the next transfer window.

Exequiel Zeballos is beginning to say goodbye to Boca. The forward, who will not renew his contract with Xeneize, is on the radar of one of Italy’s biggest clubs: Napoli want him. The match against Universidad Católica could be his last game in the Blue and Gold.

The directors of the Southern Italian club have begun talks with the board led by Juan Román Riquelme to sign Changuito, the 24-year-old forward. The team is second behind Inter in Serie A and has qualified for the next Champions League.

Negotiations are well advanced, although the figures of the possible transfer of the Santiago del Estero-born player have not been disclosed. His release clause is 15 million dollars.

Zeballos has a contract until the end of the year and did not reach an agreement with the board over a renewal. The directors’ position is that he should not leave on a free transfer in December, which is why they will try to complete a transfer in the mid-year transfer window.

The 24-year-old forward from Santiago del Estero is one of the last representatives of the unforgettable 2002 class (which also included Equi Fernández and Cristian Medina, among others), and coincidentally, or perhaps not, he too will leave the club in an unwanted way. Although they insist that the relationship between both sides remains cordial and that negotiations were always conducted on good terms, the positions were irreconcilable, and Xeneize will watch one of the club’s greatest promises of the last decade walk away.

If this goes through, Changuito will play against Universidad Católica on Thursday at La Bombonera — a crucial match for qualification to the Copa Libertadores round of 16 —

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