Italian top club refuses to sign players from Africa

Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis has said he will never sign an African player again unless they pull out of the Africa Cup of Nations. Football Italia.

Nigerian Victor Osimhen and Cameroonian Andre Zambo-Angissa are playing for Napoli. Earlier Senegalese Kalidou Koulibaly moved to Chelsea.

“I asked you not to tell me more about the Africans!” I love them, but either they sign something saying they’re out of the Africa Cup of Nations and qualifiers, or these players will never be available! They are always busy in teams. We’re like idiots who pay salaries only to be sent all over the world to play for others,” De Laurentiis said.

He also said that in the 2017/18 season he received an offer from American investors willing to pay $900 million to buy Napoli, but he turned it down.

– In recent years, such investment funds have become fashionable, they must guarantee their depositors a certain income for five years. They saw that football was a great opportunity and they could double their investment by selling the clubs to investment funds in the future. This is what Milan and Inter did, right? I’m being attacked, I can’t take it anymore. In 2017-2018, an American foundation offered me $900 million to sell Napoli. But what they don’t understand is that I’m a pure entrepreneur who loves the game itself,” De Laurentiis said.

Last season, Napoli finished third in Serie A. In the first round of the new season, the Neapolitan club will play against Verona on 15 August.