Juventus market, duel with Napoli not only for defense

Napoli and Juventus are gearing up for the big Maradona challenge that will close Sunday&#8217s Serie A Week 14. After making it through the round of 16 in the Coppa Italia, in which the Italian champions needed penalty kicks to get the better of Cagliari, while the Old Lady beat Udinese, both teams return their focus to the league. Napoli is looking for its third consecutive victory to keep the top of the standings, while Juve wants to reduce the gap right with the Azzurri. Meanwhile, the Campania and Piedmontese clubs are also challenging each other on the winter market.

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According to reports from Tuttosport, in fact, there&#8217s more than one player being followed with interest by both Juventus and Napoli. As far as the defense is concerned, the Bianconeri and the Azzurri leadership have two young profiles in their sights, both of whom play in Serie A: the first is Tiago Gabriel, a Portuguese central defender born in 2004 and owned by Lecce; the second is the 22-year-old Bosnian Tarik Muharemovic, on the strength of Sassuolo, who is also followed by Inter. However, Juve has reserved 50 percent on the future resale of the neroverde central player: in this sense therefore it would have a major advantage over the partenopei and nerazzurri.

But this is not the end of the story: there&#8217s another target that Juventus and Napoli have in common. It is Rodrigo Mendoza, a Spanish midfielder born in 2005 and owned by Elche. Napoli is grappling with a rather crowded infirmary. So many players are in the pits, especially midfielders. As is only to be expected, the Azzurri club is looking around for a quality midfielder who could be right for Antonio Conte. The same goes for Juventus, which is aiming at an element that can give something different to Luciano Spalletti, who so far complains about the lack of a real regista in his chessboard.