Aurelio De Laurentiis confirms Manchester United “offered £95m” for Kalidou Koulibaly and defended his record of “top players.”
There have been consistent reports of a massive proposal for Koulibaly, in the region of €105m for the Senegal international and ADL essentially confirmed it.
“We are more than capable of developing top players and keeping them too,” the President told reporters at the Corriere del Mezzogiorno panel.
“When they offer £95m for a centre-back, that is a figure that has never been offered before, it means this is a top player."
De Laurentiis clearly quoted the figure in pounds rather than Euros, showing it came from the Premier League.
“When we had Gonzalo Higuain who scored all those goals with Rafa Benitez and Sarri, even though he missed some penalties and skipped the Champions League for a season, we had top players.
“When I hear lies like ‘there are no top players at Napoli,’ it drives me crazy. Was Edinson Cavani not a top player? Signing a second striker like Dries Mertens into a centre-forward who scores 30 goals, getting a talent like Arkadiusz Milik who had two serious injuries and still performs at the highest level… it means we Neapolitans like to complain.”
Rokdmopsty
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Maguire better
mubblmpyz
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please, United must stop spending such massive amounts of money on one player. because there's no guarantee in success , no one knows if the Senegalese man gona fit in premier League. or it better United go and get the Portuguese defender (PEPE) on free transfer than to spend that such amount of money on one player.
The board is the problem, when Mourinho asked for this player kolidibaly it was about $50m Maguire £36 million and the man from spurs was £56 million and he was left behind for their preseason training thinking MU will sign him no way, after the world cup their price skyrocketed, if they have listen to Mourinho, they could have gotten these players very cheap
mubblmpyz
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I am starting to think our scouts need to be sacked too. what manner of nonsense is this, United should respect themselves ooo and not annoy with how they waste money on overrated players that we don't even know whether will fit in our team well I personally thinks no more signing should be made until after a permanent coach has been signed #GGMU
You are right Bros, MU has three different types of scouts which Mourinho even complain about,
mubblmpyz
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There should be no signing of defender since MU board believed that they have outstanding defender that can take care of back line's because Mourinho is the cause of the team problem.
yasbcnrst
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please, United must stop spending such massive amounts of money on one player. because there's no guarantee in success , no one knows if the Senegalese man gona fit in premier League. or it better United go and get the Portuguese defender (PEPE) on free transfer than to spend that such amount of money on one player.
yopoptu
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whey not., this is the situation of the market now..kolibaly one of the best defenders in the world how and with sacking Jose morinho and signing a class player center back like kolibaly I think manchester united will turn around there sesoan and no doubt
ubiq1234
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ubiq1234
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ubiq1234
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Go for Toby Aderwerld dat guy is a world class defender
Oh, bro. Spurs won't let him go by using some finance strageties....That's why they still have Kane and Erikson
Lutfil_Hadi
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Go for Toby Aderwerld dat guy is a world class defender
Yup agreed his far more better than koulibaly
VanishPrasad
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This is how MU spends money ... and ends up on the wrong side
Tedadlmry
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Go for Toby Aderwerld dat guy is a world class defender
Rukbcdosyz
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so overrated. isn't he same player I saw against Liverpool? united should rather waste such money on free pepe than him. United already have good lots of defenders, all they need is coach to bring out the best in them, pair them well in each match..
You are a fool
12UnitedGuyReborn
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I am starting to think our scouts need to be sacked too. what manner of nonsense is this, United should respect themselves ooo and not annoy with how they waste money on overrated players that we don't even know whether will fit in our team well I personally thinks no more signing should be made until after a permanent coach has been signed #GGMU
Benosky1
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so overrated. isn't he same player I saw against Liverpool? united should rather waste such money on free pepe than him. United already have good lots of defenders, all they need is coach to bring out the best in them, pair them well in each match..
tourayousman
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humabko
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Do you want to sell or not.
bett1k
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I think they are trying to say the club owner is not class !!!