Transfer Window Roundup
By: Neil | January 31st, 2013It’s been a busy month for Napoli, and some notable moves were made.
First let’s look at who is leaving:
Aronica to Palermo
Dossena to Palermo
Vargas to Gremio (on loan)
Fernandez to Getafe (on loan)
Uvini to Siena (on loan)
As none of these players were making major contributions – the three young South Americans barely got any playing time – it’s actually improvement by subtraction. Aronica and Dossena were not going to make a long term impact at Napoli, while the other will get valuable playing time on loan at smaller teams. To be honest, Gremio could be a fairly big club but likely not as big as Napoli.
Here’s the new players:
Pablo Armero (loan plus option to buy)
Emanuele Calaio
Rolando (on loan)
Josip Radosevic
All these signing are fairly low risk. Armero is on loan, so if he doesn’t work out the club can ship him back to Udinese. Calaio has played with Napoli before and knows the club quite well. Rolando is on loan and there is no long term commitment. The best signing, however, could be Radosevic who his agent compares to a young Rino Gattuso. I know the agent is biased, but there is a lot of talk about this young player.
The biggest adjustment was made to Napoli’s defence, with three defenders – Aronica, Fernandez, and Uvini leaving, and only Rolando coming in. With Cannavaro reinstated I think Napoli’s defence is still strong enough to see out the rest of the season. Here is the group of 6 defenders still on the roster:
Britos, Campagnaro, Cannavaro, Gamberini, Rolando, Grava
You’ve got to figure that Campagnaro, Cannavaro, and Britos will start with Gamberini pushing any of those three for a starting spot, and Rolando providing backup in case of injuries. On top of that, Zuniga, Armero, and maybe even Behrami could fill in as emergency defenders if needed. So the defence look good for the time being, as long as there are no serious injuries. But it will need a tinkering again in the summer.
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The defence will need more than just a tinkering as Campagnsro will leave for inter this summer and Grava not having got any playing time since…
I hope the rumors about Astori or Neto pan out, or a player from the Primavera is able to make the jump or our d will be pretty thin next year.
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The Fernandez and Uvini loans are just til the end of the season… unless either club makes a huge offer the players will return to Napoli. So at least the numbers will be higher again.
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I am extremely pleased with this transfer market.Management have shown that they are serious about making a run for it…..
Imo Mazzari has the best team under him since he joined us in 2009…he can take us there!! -
Apparently Radosevic is pretty damn good. A buddy of mine is Croatian and follows Hajduk Split and was pretty upset about his departure
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Great Jan market.
Some quality reinforcement for the rest of the season as well as looking to the future with Radosevic who looks like he has big potential. I can’t wait to see the kid in action.
Also read somewhere that Napoli already have an agreement for Nainggolan for next season. Hopefully that is true. -
Seba, I thought we had an agreement for Naingolan but today Dela said we didnt get Naingolan because we found a younger and more talented player (Radosevic).
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Maybe it’s not true but who really knows, but with Napoli looking good for the Champions League next year…we will need 4 quality central midfielders in the squad. Inler, Behrami, Radosevic, Nainggolan maybe?
Napoli tried to sell Dzemali in the January window but a deal couldn’t be worked…therefore I Can’t see Dzemali at Napoli next season.
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Looked like they also made a strong push for Icardi
With Campagnaro leaving for Inter in June we are going to need some strong reinforements on defense as well.
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4 man backline tomorrow. Zuniga Canna Gamberini Armero…
People are saying its a 4-3-1-2 with hamsik at trequartista.. prob going to be 4-4-2 on defense with hamsik dropping back to left mid. This was mazzarri’s tactics vs roma’s 4-3-3. We let roma have the ball.and countered quickly. We’ll see how this plays out tomorrow -
Four in the back to start the game? Holy crap! Guess he had to do this with Hugo and Britos out. But I’m still surprised he is exhibiting flexibility.
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An excellent transfer campaign. Interesting to know how many wud have been happy if Balotelli had arrived. The latest thing in British newspapers is he allegedly gave half his wages to charity it is a bit trendy with Becks doing the same Me like Becks and Mario I also give give half my salary to charity, she’s a great girl and her massages are legendary.
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