{"id":616072,"date":"2022-08-09T16:25:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T20:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=616072"},"modified":"2022-08-09T16:25:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T20:25:57","slug":"napoli-closing-in-giovanni-simeone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/09\/napoli-closing-in-giovanni-simeone\/","title":{"rendered":"Napoli Closing in on Prized Serie A Striker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Napoli are closing in on a deal for Giovanni Simeone of Hellas Verona, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1557078365756088320\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a>. They are working on a loan deal worth \u00a32.96 million (\u20ac3.5 million) with a permanent buy option of \u00a310.1 (\u20ac12 million).<\/p>\n<p>Although Simeone is partially known for being the son of Atletico Madrid manager Diego Simeone, he&#8217;s also a strong Serie A striker with international appearances for Argentina.<\/p>\n<h2>Napoli Are Closing in on a Deal for Giovanni Simeone<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Napoli are closing on Gio Simeone deal on loan [around \u20ac3.5m fee] also with buy option clause worth \u20ac12m from Verona. \ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udd35 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/transfers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#transfers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Busy week for Napoli working also on Giacomo Raspadori from Sassuolo and Keylor Navas on loan from PSG. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rdrlG6qY6d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/rdrlG6qY6d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1557078365756088320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>A Much Needed Addition<\/h3>\n<p>Napoli&#8217;s attack has been decimated this summer. This isn&#8217;t great news after Napoli finished third in the league last season, behind <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/08\/ac-milan-pre-season-is-positive\/\" target=\"_self\">AC Milan<\/a> and Inter Milan but ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/09\/west-ham-target-kostic-to-juventus\/\" target=\"_self\">Juventus<\/a>. Other Serie A teams have also strengthened, such as AS Roma adding both <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/19\/departing-juventus-star-roma-paulo-dybala\/\" target=\"_self\">Paulo Dybala<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/04\/psg-midfielder-wijnaldum-signs-for-roma\/\" target=\"_self\">Georginio Wijnaldum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lorenzo Insigne departed to Toronto FC. Dries Mertens left to Galatasaray. Both were major players in Napoli&#8217;s attack for the past several seasons. This left players such as Victor Osimhen and Hirving Lozano as\u00a0<em>I Partenopei<\/em>&#8216;s best options. These are decent options, but more help is needed.<\/p>\n<p>Simeone brings this help. He scored 17 goals and provided six assists in 35 matches for Verona last season. He spearheaded Verona&#8217;s vicious attack that outscored the likes of Juventus. The 27-year-old is right in his prime and has shown that he&#8217;s ready for a big move like this.<\/p>\n<p>Romano also mentions that the work doesn&#8217;t stop here for Napoli. They&#8217;re looking for more attacking help from Sassuolo star <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/03\/serie-a-clubs-chasing-young-striker\/\" target=\"_self\">Giacomo Raspadori<\/a>. They&#8217;re also looking to upgrade the goalkeeper department with Keylor Navas of Paris Saint-Germain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Napoli are closing in on a deal for Giovanni Simeone of Hellas Verona, according to Fabrizio Romano. They are working on a loan deal worth \u00a32.96 million (\u20ac3.5 million) with a permanent buy option of \u00a310.1 (\u20ac12 million). Although Simeone is partially known for being the son of Atletico Madrid manager Diego Simeone, he&#8217;s also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2248,"featured_media":616074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7188,28],"tags":[8852,7856],"class_list":["post-616072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-serie-a","category-rumours","category-transfers","tag-giovanni-simeone","tag-serie-a-transfers"],"modified_by":"Dylan Guest, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}