Napoli said no to €10m Sebastiano Esposito loan deal
The club turned down a loan-with-option offer for the senior Italy international last summer, a call tied to the spending review ordered in August.
Napoli rejected an offer for Sebastiano Esposito, a senior Italy international, in the window that closed on 1 September. The deal on the table was a loan with an option to buy fixed at €10m. The club said no.
The decision ties back to the spending review ordered for the summer. The window closed with a net spend of around €47.5m, driven mainly by the €35m paid to Udinese for Lucca and only partly offset by the €26m received for Gutiérrez's move to Bayer Leverkusen. There was no room left for another forward.
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It reads differently now. Napoli are eighth with 10 points from six games and just 10 goals scored, with the attack going missing in both the 0-1 defeat to Arsenal and the 3-1 loss at Villarreal. Turning down a senior international on terms that were not prohibitive looks heavier now than it did in August.
The window reopens on 2 January. Until then, Napoli have only the forwards already in the squad.
Source: MondoNapoli
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