“There is an ongoing negotiation between the club and the player’s entourage, we cannot go into details. What I ask Khvicha is to continue doing what he is doing, to focus on the season. He is an exemplary professional and we are experiencing a very important season. I hope that everything resolves in the best way for the club, the player and his agent, but I also know that in football anything can happen”. At the end of October, the Neapolitan coach confirmed negotiations between the South Italian team and the Georgian star.
But since then, things haven’t really progressed. The discussions between the Kvaratskhelia clan and the management of Naples, led by the sulphurous Aurelio De Laurentiis, were thus quite complicated. So much so that there was talk of a departure next summer, with several clubs already interested, including FC Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain, who already tried it last summer.
End of suspense
And if we use the past tense, it means that everything seems to have been resolved. At least that’s what the Corriere dello Sport. An agreement between the attacker and the Partenopei is thus about to be reached. There has been a rapprochement in recent weeks following a new round of meetings and the player should therefore be back until 2029, to the delight of Naples.
Pending the official signing of the contract, Naples can therefore look to the future with its 23-year-old striker, author of 5 goals and 3 assists in 14 Serie A matches this season. Interested clubs will therefore have to turn to other avenues, while the Neapolitans will tackle the Osimhen file, currently on loan to Galatasaray and also coveted by PSG…