De Laurentiis deals with Rosario Central’s Argentine: he is 20 years old and an attacking outsider
NAPLES – The future is (well) now, on this tour around the world looking for talent, in this grueling journey between Europe and South America to find the better youth, in this Idea that remains and represents the source of one’s dreams: from Napoli to Buenos Aires, or so, it is nothing: it is a flight with fantasy, it is a call of conscience , is empathy in its pure state, it is all that is known, which has been written in history and remains there, in memory: and then it is fatal attraction, a spark that immediately triggers the loving senses of football and draws into a whirlpool ’emotions.
It must have been like this, when the “special envoys” of Napoli landed in Argentina, they went to watch a few games – on precise instructions – and they found in Rosario Central , the club of the city where Messi was born, a little devil named Maximiliano Lovera , just turned twenty, a total of thirty presences and an evolution that transformed it from a classic right-wing striker , a wing as they used to say, in a joker able to do various things, not only amaze, as he promptly succeeded in Libertadores Cup . Napoli has a Philosophy, it has never come out, it has supported it, it has exalted it through the thirty million investment of last summer for Fabian Ruiz, who became a top player in twelve months, and now he is still pursuing it, silently and in the shadows, trying to arrive first with the look where others do not arrive.
It all started with a classic search on the intentions of the Rosario Central and it is a negotiation that was born in these last hours, after being convinced about the broad nature of a footballer who promises to have room for improvement, which certainly must be included in a new context, but one that leads us to believe in quotations that are reasonable. The ones that dragged Matias Almendra (2000) into limbo are not: Napoli would still like to close an operation that has become excessively expensive, as there is a thirty million euro clause that is deemed excessive. And the requests of Fenerbahce for Efil Elmas , also a class ’99 (twenty years in September), for which De Laurentiis has gone up to ten million euros and risk being equally unsustainable he found himself facing that wall of fifteen plus three euros that had become insurmountable. Talent costs, but at certain ages it is still uncertain, it must be awaited, patiently, and armored, as the dangers of football are varied: Napoli is choosing a young man of perspective – it can be a median, a mezzone or even an outside player – and yet investing a figure that is considered adequate, while there are sometimes disproportions at the market. And if the Rosario Central will remain in those that De Laurentiis believes are the limits, Maximiliano Lovera , another Argentine, will dress in blue.
From: Corriere Dello Sport.
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