Napoli

Hello. Welcome to Stadio San Paolo, home of S.S.C. Napoli, Azzuri. The present manager of the team (formed in 1926) is Bestie, the overweight giant sat behind his computer screen. Bestie has conveniently shown you, by virtue of some hugely attractive star graphics, roughly how he rates each of the players in his current squad and therefore roughly how difficult it would be to obtain them if one was searching for potential transfer targets.

Bestie would also like to take this opportunity to point you in the direction of Napoli's finances at the bottom of this article. Quite tidy, I think you'll agree. Therefore, players who are held in high regard by this manager will not be let go easily, and their services will take a fair bit of work and money to secure.

Bestie would also like to let you know that he is leaving home at 6:00 AM on Saturday the 21st of July in order to take a two-week long holiday on the Isle of Wight. He will endeavour to check in via various forms of electronic communication if he possesses a spare moment, but this holiday is a time for him to relax and get away from the everyday hussle and bussle of football management.

Therefore, he would like you to try and keep transfer negotiations short and snappy over the next fortnight, and if there is one member of this squad whom you particularly like, he would also suggest you launched a bid for him by roughly 22:30 tonight.

Squad:
.......GK:Morgan De Sanctis (HG)
...............GK:Antonio Rosati (HG)
...................GK:Roberto Colombo (HG)**Pending release**

...................CB:Gianluca Grava (HG) **Pending release**
...................CB:Leandro Rinaudo (HG)**Pending release**
...............CB:Alessandro Gamberini (HG)
...........CB:Federico Fernández
...............CB:Miguel Britos
...........CB:Hugo Campagnaro
.......CB:Paolo Cannavaro (c) (HG)
.......CB:Martin Škrtel
...............CB/LB:Salvatore Aronica (HG)
.......RWB:Christian Maggio (HG)
...........LWB:Juan Camilo Zúñiga
...................LWB:Luigi Vitale (HG)**Pending release**
...............LB:Andrea Dossena (HG)

...............CM:Marco Donadel (HG)
.......CM:Axel Witsel
...........CM:Blerim Džemaili
.......CM:Gökhan Inler
...CAM:Marek Hamšík
.......CAM:Pablo Aimar


...ST:Fernando Llorente
...ST:Ezequiel Lavezzi
...........ST:Eduardo Vargas
...........ST:Goran Pandev
........ST:Salomon Rondón
...............ST:Nicolao Dumitru (U21)
...................ST:Lorenzo Insigne (HG) (U21)
...................ST:Erwin Hoffer**Pending release**


Current Starting XI
-----------------------------------De Sanctis

---Maggio---------Cannavaro------Škrtel--------------Zúñiga

---------------------------Inler-------Witsel

------------Hamšík----------Aimar-----------Lavezzi

-----------------------------Llorente

Substitutes' Bench
1.) Rosati
2.) Fernandez
3.) Donadel
4.) Dossena
5.) Rondón
6.) Džemaili
7.) Vargas

Transfers
IN:
Fernando Llorente from Athletic Bilbao alongside £5m for Cavani
Pablo Aimar and Axel Witsel from Benfica for £23m
Salomon Rondón from Malága for £12m
Martin Škrtel from Liverpool for £16m

OUT:
Walter Gargano to Leverkusen for £8m
Edinson Cavani to Athletic Bilbao for £5m plus Llorente

Finances
Initial Budget:.....................£55,000,000
Transfer Expenditure:..........(£51,000,000)
Other income (ie Media).........£2,000,000
Transfer Income:..................£13,000,000
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Budget:.............................£19,000,000