The captain of NapoliGiovanni Di Lorenzo, perhaps the most significant symbol of the Italian team’s climb to the scudetto in recent years, has asked for transfer. The indiscretion comes directly from today’s edition of Corriere dello Sport, according to which something has broken in recent months. It was a difficult year for everyone and in recent months even the public has begun to take it out on the players, after having done so with the clubs and coaches. And the captain also ended up in the crosshairs, whose performance left something to be desired. So, now, a farewell cannot be ruled out at all.
From renewal to transfer?
Officially, therefore, Di Lorenzo has asked to leave. He did so during the talks held in the last few days at the Castel Volturno sports center with the sports director (in pectore, waiting for him to be announced) Giovanni Manna. The former Empoli player considers his cycle concluded despite having a contract until 2028 (with an option until 2029), renewed last summer in the middle of the joy retreat in Dimaro, announcing it in the square, in front of thousands of fans, as to open a lasting marriage. Which, however, may have reached the end of the line.
Napoli’s position
Anyone can make a mistake in one or ten matches, even thirty in the case of this irreducible cyborg with 230 appearances in total, and Di Lorenzo certainly has the intelligence and the shoulders to face them calmly; perhaps, however, the very basis has disappeared. That is: he understood and learned that according to the club’s line there are no non-transferables in the face of an offer deemed satisfactory and so he started to reflect. Since there are no non-transferables, therefore, in front of the right offer the exit gate will also open for the captain.