Napoli reveal ‘unfair’ Alejandro Garnacho request; claim Manchester United overpaid on £29m transfer
Napoli’s sporting director, Giovanni Manna, has reveale that Alejandro Garnacho’s salary demands scuppered his move to the Serie A club and believes.
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Napoli were in the market to replace Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, who joined Paris Saint-Germain in a €70 million (£58.9m) deal last month, and held extensive talks to sign Garnacho from United.
However, Napoli were unable to agree a transfer fee, even after United lowered their asking price to €65m (£54.8m), and Manna claims that negotiations over the Argentine’s wages were not in line with the club’s current structure.
‘We discussed and met Garnacho even before Kvara left, we made an important offer to United, we got very close,’ Manna said at a press conference on Wednesday.
The player wanted to leave the Premier League in January, because in July it’s different, he wanted to be satisfied financially, something that we can’t do at the moment, we don’t want to and I don’t even think it’s fair when there’s an average salary in the dressing room and you put a young player who earns a higher salary, it’s not right towards the others who are doing important things.
‘We create a competitive team for a competition, and we are there thanks to the coach and the team, it wasn’t right.’
Napoli were also in the running to sign Dorgu before United agreed a €35m (£29.2m) deal with Lecce to sign the 20-year-old wing-back in the final week of the January window.
Manna admits Napoli were unable to compete with United’s offer but feels the bid was above market value.
‘Napoli must take strong players, whether they’re young or older. For example, we negotiated Dorgu for the summer, then if United arrives and makes an offer outside the market it’s difficult to tell them to wait for us,’ Manna said.
‘I’ll give you a practical example – if there’s an opportunity like [Scott] McTominay we’ll take it, but we’re not a club that takes a free agent for a five million salary and six million commission, that’s not our modus operandi, many others do it. We take the good ones, the functional ones, if they have a prospect it’s better, but it’s not a necessary condition.