Revealed: Napoli refused monstrous offers for star defender last summer
Thus said, the background revealed this morning by Gazzetta dello Sport is not surprising. The Italian paper writes that last summer, Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis refused offers of 60 million euros in order to keep the player at the San Paolo.
As of now, the evaluation of the player can perhaps approach even triple of this figure, given the amounts paid for players in the current market. "The important thing is to try and always improve and show everyone that I can become one of the best defenders in the world," Koulibaly said just a couple of days ago. And perhaps he already is one of, if not the best defender in the world, and could be the next player to break the defensive transfer record.