Napoli did a great job by bringing Kim Min Jae from Fenerbahce last season. For 18,000,000 euros, the Korean replaced Kalidou Koulibaly, who left for Chelsea for 38,000,000 euros. Kim instantly became the commander-in-chief of Serie A’s best defense (Napoli conceded just 28 goals), helping the Neapolitans win the title they had been waiting for for over three decades. And soon they will sell him to Bayern Munich for 50,000,000 euros, which is the amount of his buyout clause.All this is already known information, but the novelty is reflected in the substitutions that the club from the south of Italy is scanning. And those could be pretty expensive. The first idea is the newly minted Spanish national team member Robin Le Normand, a Real Sociedad footballer and a man whom the Red Fury stole from the French national team, who waited too long for Les Bleus to call him, following a similar model as with Aymeric Laporte. Another solution is Wolverhampton’s sweeper Max Kilman.##NAJAVA_MECA_7353136##The problem is that it is necessary to pay out massive compensation for both of them. According to the claims of transfer expert Gianluca Di Marzio, Sociedad would not release Le Normand for less than 50,000,000 euros, while Wolves value Kilman at 40,000,000. Therefore, Napoli would have to nearly empty their wallet and direct almost all of the money from the sale of Kim to his replacement. And that is not exactly the style of the Neapolitans. Although, Napoli’s ambitions will certainly be aimed at defending the title with an identical attacking backbone in the form of the Khvicha Kvaratskhelia-Victor Osimhen duo. It is not excluded that the club’s boss Aurelio De Laurentiis will still be ready to approach or break the club record for the amount of compensation for a defender. The most expensive one that Napoli bought was Konstantinos Manolas (36,000,000), and in second place is Nikola Maksimović, who came from Turin for 21,000,000.Osimhen admits he is ‘addicted to trophies’Le Normand’s price was undoubtedly raised by two recent appearances for the Spanish national team, but also by the fact that he was part of the third best defense in Primera Division (Sociedad conceded only 35 goals) and helped the white and blue to reach the group stage of the Champions League. As for Kilman, like every Englishman, he has a slightly higher market value than one rooted in reality (30,000,000 euros), and he is also represented by the famous Wasserman agency. Although he was standard at Molineux for the entire season and as he approached the number of 100 Premier League appearances, he showed that he can continuously play in probably the best league in Europe and the world.
