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Napoli, Higuain refuses contract extension offer. Which clubs are behind his decision?
“My brother is not thinking about Napoli anymore, he’s focused on something else. Aurelio De Laurentiis had promised he would have built a team to beat Juventus, but we finished the girone d’andata on top of the table and he did not make the right investments to battle it out with Juventus.”
“We respect his strategy, but we believe that in order to win the league he has to buy big names and not promising youths. We don’t want to extend our contract with the club.”
Higuain netted 36 goals in 35 Serie A games last term breaking the Italian league’s scoring record and Aurelio De Laurentiis is only open to sell him for the release clause which is set to € 94.7 million and his contract runs until 2018.
PSG are one of those clubs that can match the player’s release fee and are also in desperate need of a top striker who can replace Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Diego Simeone is also keen to bring him to Atletico Madrid and Carlo Ancelotti believes the Argentinean would be the perfect replacement of Robert Lewandowski at Bayern. The Poland striker is targeted by Real Madrid.
We are not forgetting the Premier League giants: Chelsea and both Manchester clubs are tracking the 28-year-old hit-man even if the Blues have almost completed the signing of Michy Batshuayi and the Red Devils will announce the arrival of Zlatan Ibrahimovic on the first of July.
Aurelio De Laurentiis will only sell the player for his release clause, like he did when he sold Edinson Cavani to PSG back in 2013, but at that time the player’s release fee was set to € 64.5 million.
Lorenzo Bettoni @lorebetto, adapted from an original article by Marco Demicheli @marcodemi90
