Napoli, deal one step closer with PSV for Noa Lang

Napoli has finally found the reinforcement for the flanks. Noa Lang will be a new Azzurri player. After weeks of consideration and cross negotiations, the Neapolitan club has closed the deal with PSV Eindhoven for the Dutch winger, identified as the ideal profile to pick up the legacy left by Kvaratskhelia, who has settled at Psg.

The Azzurri management, led by Giovanni Manna, had initially set its sights on Bologna’s Dan Ndoye, but the Emilian club’s resistance and excessive financial demands forced Napoli to change strategy. It was Manna himself who pushed decisively for Noa Lang, a player who had been followed for months and who had already been at the center of an initial approach in January, which then fizzled out.

Lang, class of 1999, was disappointed with the lack of a transfer in the winter and had long made it clear that he liked the Naples destination. The negotiations, in the end, were quickly unblocked. Napoli will pay PSV about 25 million euros, while the player has been offered a five-year contract worth 2.5 million euros per season.

Lang is an offensive outside player of great quality. Quick and skilled in one-on-one play, and many compare him in terms of characteristics to Dries Mertens. The Belgian arrived in Naples just from PSV twelve years ago.