Kvaratskhelia chases the Ballon d'Or at Paris Saint-Germain

Among the former players cited as symbols of the Napoli shirt in the material the club is gathering for its centenary is Kvaratskhelia. He left Napoli for Paris Saint-Germain after years as one of the team's key figures, one of the names most closely identified with the shirt by the fans who watched him play at the Maradona.

Kvaratskhelia himself has drawn the comparison between his two spells. He admitted that in the final stretch of his time at Napoli he was not the same player the team and the city had come to know. That judgement came from him, not from an outside reconstruction — which is exactly why it carries more weight.

Few certain details remain about the exact circumstances of the move from Napoli to PSG, the date or the fee, and there is nothing more to add on that front. What the available facts do allow is this: a player once considered a symbol of the Napoli shirt now competes at the highest level of European football, with a continental trophy already won twice in a few seasons and a nomination for the biggest individual prize there is.

For those who watched him play at Napoli, Kvaratskhelia's story remains a recent chapter of the shirt, now followed from a distance, through the results he keeps producing elsewhere.