‘We really wanted him’ – Napoli chief reveals Alejandro Garnacho request that saw Man Utd star’s transfer fall apart

ALEJANDRO GARNANCHO's transportation to Napoli fell isolated aft the prima made an "unfair" petition to articulation them.

Garnacho, 20, astatine 1 signifier looked destined to permission Manchester United during the winter transportation window.

This was owed to him partially not fitting Ruben Amorim's system, partially owing to a deficiency of minutes and partially owed to PSR unit connected Man Utd.

Napoli and Chelsea were among the main clubs linked with the winger, but yet a woody was not reached with Garnacho uncovering a caller lease of beingness astatine Old Trafford.

The Italian broadside had been looking to motion a replacement for Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, who departed for Paris Saint-Germain earlier successful the period successful a woody worthy £59m.

But Giovanni Manna, sporting manager of the Naples outfit, has present revealed wherefore a woody to motion the Argentine fell apart.

Speaking astatine a property league connected Wednesday, helium said: "We discussed and met Garnacho adjacent earlier Kvara left, we made an important connection to United. We truly wanted him.

"The subordinate wanted to permission the Premier League successful January due to the fact that successful July it’s different; helium wanted to beryllium satisfied financially, thing that we can’t bash astatine the moment.

"We don’t privation to and I don’t adjacent deliberation it’s just erstwhile there’s an mean wage successful the dressing room and you enactment a young subordinate who earns a higher salary.

"It’s not close towards the others who are doing important things."

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"We created a competitory squad for a competition, and we are determination acknowledgment to the manager and the team, it wasn’t right."

Despite extended discussions with the Red Devils, Napoli were besides incapable to hold a transportation interest contempt the asking terms being lowered to £55m.

Napoli were besides successful the race for Patrick Dorgu, earlier helium yet moved to Man Utd successful a woody worthy £25m positive £4m successful add-ons.

Manna added: "Napoli indispensable instrumentality beardown players, whether they’re young oregon older.

"For example, we negotiated Dorgu for the summer, past if United arrives and makes an connection extracurricular the marketplace it’s hard to archer them to hold for us.

"I’ll springiness you a applicable illustration – if there’s an accidental similar [Scott] McTominay we’ll instrumentality it, but we’re not a nine that takes a escaped cause for a 5 cardinal wage and six cardinal commission, that’s not our modus operandi, galore others bash it.

"We instrumentality the bully ones, the functional ones, if they person a imaginable it’s better, but it’s not a indispensable condition.

"We took Buongiorno, Gilmour, but besides Spinazzola, McTominay, Neres, Romelu, beardown players successful their marketplace moment.

"It seems that we had to bash who knows what, we had to regenerate Kvara, we didn’t bash it arsenic we wanted but this summertime we made fewer mistakes and the squad is showing it.

"Taking the measurement to delight Garnacho means that I enactment idiosyncratic successful determination with players who person been busting their asses since July… it’s not right, past we wanted to bash it.

"I’m not happy, we didn’t succeed, but the marketplace didn’t extremity yesterday, it starts again and we volition person to beryllium bully and amusement spot now.

"Staying focused connected the Champions League objective, which doesn’t mean not dreaming but staying focused, different if you alert past you autumn and wounded yourself.

"This Napoli deserves lone affirmative words, ever and successful immoderate case, what is being done cipher expected."

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