In keeping with studies from Italy, one high-flying membership have their sights set on a Liverpool participant as a doable alternative for a present star whose future appears unsure.
The Reds are at present going through a crossroads over three essential figures of their very own in Mo Salah, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Virgil van Dijk, whose present offers all expire on the finish of this season, though they’re not the one table-topping membership in Europe who’re attempting to handle a fragile contract state of affairs.
Napoli eyeing potential transfer for Liverpool ahead
Italian outlet La Repubblica have reported (through Il Napolista) that Serie A leaders Napoli have recognized Liverpool ahead Federico Chiesa as a possible alternative for present talisman Khvicha Kvaratskhelia.
Antonio Conte’s aspect are understood to be struggling to ‘unravel’ the Georgian’s contract state of affairs, and despite the fact that the 23-year-old’s present deal runs to 2027, there’s already been an abundance of hypothesis over his future on the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona.
If Gli Azzurri have been to pursue the Reds’ quantity 14, it’d be with a view to signing him subsequent summer time reasonably than within the January switch window.
Hopefully Chiesa will show himself at Liverpool
Since becoming a member of Liverpool on the finish of August, Chiesa has endured a massively irritating time at Anfield, with ongoing health points limiting him to a mere 78 minutes of game-time underneath Arne Slot.
Nevertheless, the 27-year-old was noticed in crew coaching in current days forward of the Reds’ Sunday showdown towards Manchester Metropolis, which can recommend that he may very well be accessible for choice quickly.
There’s already been a number of studies from Italy a couple of doable return to his homeland for the ex-Juventus star, though LFC are extremely unlikely to jettison him this quickly into his spell on Merseyside, particularly when he hasn’t had a correct likelihood to show himself.
Chiesa will nonetheless be aware that Salah could be near-impossible to displace until the Egyptian have been to depart on the finish of his present contract subsequent summer time, and likewise that fellow proper winger Ben Doak has been excelling on mortgage at Middlesbrough and likewise for Scotland in current weeks.
Hopefully we’ll quickly get to see the Italian having a sustained alternative to indicate what he can do at Anfield, having arrived amid appreciable fanfare however endured a false begin to his profession with the Reds.