Conte Demands Roster Overhaul to Continue at Napoli | OneFootball

Napoli will have to get to work to convince Antonio Conte not to jump ship after just one season. The gaffer believes that the team has gone well beyond its capabilities this season and was helped by not playing in the cups.

He demands a proper overhaul to be competitive at the highest level in the future, Tuttomercatoweb informs. He wants eight new pieces. The main reinforcement has to be a real Khvicha Kvaratskhelia heir. The Azzurri settled with Noah Okafor in January.

Conte want Napoli to shore up the roster in basically every area. In the back, he wishes to bring in a deputy goalie who could realistically compete with Alex Meret and real alternatives to Giovanni Di Lorenzo and Amir Rrahmani that would be able to hang in the Champions League if need be.

Moreover, he requests a box-to-box midfielder at the same level as Scott McTominay and Frank Anguissa and another center-forward to manage Romelu Lukaku’s minutes. The gaffer has nixed a few departures to have depth, but he’d let go of several players with proper or preferably better replacements. The manager left Juventus and Inter abruptly in the past due to divergences over the transfer market.

Our Take on Conte and Napoli

It looks like he has already started setting the stage for his exit, but, while Aurelio De Laurentiis has stayed quiet this season, he will no doubt put up a fight. Moreover, his demands are far from absurd, and only a pair are questionable. It’ll be tough to guarantee that they’ll be able to do everything, but they should try.