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Gazzetta - Napoli, Manna has three alternatives to Ndoye: Grealish in pole!

The Premier League takes away and the Premier League gives: because at five in the evening, like in a gigantic modern football novel, even before the shadows fall, it's already time to start playing again, since the game seems (but seems) to have gotten tough. Dan Ndoye has said yes to Nottingham and Napoli, who had hoped until Monday morning, without being unprepared, had to start rewriting the maps: heading to Manchester (but City side) to understand the feasibility of Jack Peter Grealish (30 years old in September) and then immediately launching towards London to understand how many possibilities there would be to reach Sterling (31 years old in December).

De Laurentiis and Conte in Ischia, Manna busy on the phone to solve equally urgent issues, the capricious sea that blocked the hydrofoils: but the summit was consumed through cell phones, was updated for tomorrow to reflect on theses and theories, on a project that is already considered satisfactory, which needs little else: a high external player, from a nature that is now also changing, and a low one, which would be Juanlu Sanchez (22 years old in August), if Sevilla were satisfied with the 17 million offered a few days ago and left on the table.

As they say in moments when the waters are agitated, it's best to stay calm, without getting caught up in the agitation of the moment: Ndoye took away some time but the dynamics of the market are familiar to those who move in football and did not unleash anxiety. Napoli has plan B, C, and if you want, you can even project towards plan D: the externals, at the moment, are three - Politano on the right, Lang on the left, Neres where needed - and then there is still Raspadori in the squad, whom Conte imagines elsewhere (as a second striker, maybe even as a midfielder) but who in his curriculum vitae already has a lot of experience in the corridor.

Sterling has the charm of experience and a historical tendency to play exactly where Conte would need a man: but Chelsea, who last year loaned him to Arsenal, has no room for maneuver and therefore will need lateral work to find an agreement that with pounds is more complex. Grealish is different, structurally and tactically, has characteristics that would still need to be merged with Conte's idea of football, then higher costs, children of that past that a 117 million coach can afford and has a Premier League salary, around 15 million, which certainly does not fit into Adl's parameters.

In Castel di Sangro, they will start again at dawn on this Wednesday that does not add "tension" to a Napoli that has been generous in the market: Conte and Manna explore the football universe and meditate on the wing that should complete the attacking squad but also on the possibility of orienting themselves differently. However, the market prohibits denying hypotheses that seem impractical or difficult: Napoli had the opportunity, in January, to approach Garnacho (21), who ended up on the margins of Manchester United. The internal voices tend to cool down suggestions, but in the notebook, six months later, the name has remained. Like that of Federico Chiesa, look, also a Premier League man: at Liverpool, he found congested spaces, played little, and didn't go, like Garnacho, even on tour. But, as they say in Anfield, the market is also last minute.

Carlo Gioia

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