Napoli Eye Bayer Leverkusen and Olympiacos Starlets | OneFootball

Despite their early elimination, Napoli are keeping tabs on the UEFA Champions League to scout for some targets for the summer. They anticipate continuing with Antonio Conte, but they plan to maintain their policy of primarily adding U-23 players, as they did in January with Giovane or Alisson Santos.

According to Il Mattino, the Partenopei have laid eyes in particular on Ernest Poku and Kostantinos Tzolakis. The former moved to Bayer Leverkusen from AZ Alkmaar for €10M last summer. He has registered 6 goals and 9 assists in 35 games this campaign. He has 19 caps with the Netherlands U-21 under his belt, during which he has hit the net 5 times.

Napoli already have two starting-caliber goalies, but it remains to be seen whether Vanja Milinkovic-Savic and Alex Meret are fine with their dualism and will both stay. The Olympiacos shot-stopper is on the radar of a few big clubs, as he’s had back-to-back convincing campaigns since bursting onto the scene. He has kept 57 clean sheets and allowed 119 goals since taking over the starting job. He has featured 7 times with Greece.

Per Tuttomercatoweb, Juventus are monitoring the 23-year-old as well, along with Roma, should they cash in on Mile Svilar and reload, and Bayern Munich, which might search for a Manuel Neuer heir at the end of the season.

Our Take on Napoli, Poku, and Tzolakis

The brass’ vision prevailed in the last window, when they really couldn’t do much because of some nonsensical financial rules. One of the ways to avoid the injury bug would be to add younger players who can better handle the load, but surely Conte would have something to say about that.