Neres draws interest from Brazil that could turn into an offer

The timing is almost cruel. Neres has just returned to partial training with the group, along with Favasuli and Spinazzola, and is aiming to make the squad for Napoli-Torino on Saturday 21 November. The medical staff are monitoring him day by day to avoid yet another setback. That is the core of the problem. In two and a half years at Napoli, the former Ajax and Benfica player has shown real quality, but only in flashes, because his body has let him down too often. He turns 30 in March, and for a winger who lives on bursts of pace, age matters.

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