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CorSport – Napoli, the negotiation for Rrahmani's renewal slows down! The situation…

Amir Rrahmani, the great joystick of Napoli's defense, secured the second Champions League victory against Qarabag with a performance that lived up to his reputation as a leader of the line, a reference, and a pilot of a phase interpreted with a ferocity and application rarely below high or very high standards. For years. His season, so far, has inevitably been affected by the muscle injury he sustained with the Kosovo national team in September, during the first break, after two superb matches against Sassuolo and Cagliari: coincidentally, the only clean sheets for the team for a long period of almost two months and nine matches (between league and cup). The past. How distant seem the moments of collective difficulty culminating in the defeat in Bologna, a wall that Napoli then demolished with consecutive victories against Atalanta and the Azeris. Good, very good. But on Sunday there's Roma at the Olimpico, a head-to-head that is worth the first place, a thrilling clash, the third of eight stages that until the Super Cup semifinal scheduled for December 18 in Riyadh will put the team to a tough test in four competitions. Many. So many that they would be enough, right? And yet, no. There's a fifth, a trap. A trap named the market: after the Arabian knights, the Turks have also swooped in on Rrahmani. Two clubs are concretely interested: Besiktas and Fenerbahçe.

Normal stories, these days, if it weren't for the fact that the defense totem, the other half of a splendid pair together with Buongiorno, has ended up on the cover. A trio, for two matches, also considering Beukema and the 3-4-2-1. But that's another story. The market on the cover, as we were saying. And with it the dangers of a group of admirers of this kind: Rrahmani is in the prime of his career, has charisma and pure strength, he makes a difference when he's there and even when he's not. Hardly replaceable, if not irreplaceable in the economy of a team that during his absence, combined with that of Lobotka, had to overcome storms and a tempest (in Eindhoven). After the long absence, Amir also had to regain his rhythm, of course, but the path taken speaks of a reassuring growth for Napoli and its future.

That other clubs are thinking about Rrahmani, however, is not new: it has already happened because he is one of the best central defenders around. What is surprising, though, is that now the interest from the Turks coincides with the slowdown in the renewal with Napoli: the negotiation to extend from 2027 to 2028 has stalled. And so, well, someone is thinking of taking advantage of it. An alarm is sounding, as in the case of Anguissa: the confirmation of players of this caliber is the response to the ambitions of a club that in two calendar years has won two championships and is swiftly approaching the centenary in August.

Carlo Gioia

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