Napoli, Rudi Garcia speaks out on Osimhen and post-Kim

Rudi Garcia doesn’t shy away from questions about Napoli’s market

From Dimaro Folgarida, the site of Napoli’s summer training camp, new coach Rudi Garcia answered questions from the audience attending an event at which, in addition to the French coach, a number of members of the Italian champions’ squad also participated.

They could not miss, among others, questions regarding the soccer market of the Neapolitan club, first of all the one about the future of Victor Osimhen: “He is under contract,” Garcia said, “among other things, he will arrive tomorrow (Tuesday, ed.) in training camp. I am not worried about him or anyone else. When I met President De Laurentiis we talked about ambition and we agreed. The president himself is very ambitious, he did great things last year and does not want to stop. He assured me that we will continue to have a quality roster.”

It did not go unnoticed, however, the transfer of Kim Min-jae, who last year was one of the pivotal elements in the dominant Serie A season, so much so that Kalidou Koulibaly’s farewell was not regretted at all: next year, in fact, the Korean will play for Bayern Munich. “In the role of central defender I will have at my disposal Juan Jesus, Rrahmani and Ostigard, they are all three very good players that we already have in house and they will not move. Clearly if we were to find a fourth with starting quality welcome, but the three I have are already fine.”

Garcia, who was born in 1964, will return to Italy seven and a half years after his first and only experience in the Bel Paese, at Roma: with the Giallorossi he won two second places (2013/14 and 2014/15), while the following season he was exonerated after 19 league games to make way for the return to the Giallorossi of the same man who Garcia himself is going to replace in Naples, Luciano Spalletti.