http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jul/28/manchester-united-talks-napoli-marouane-fellaini-shinji-kagawa
Manchester United hold talks with Napoli over Marouane Fellaini exit Marouane Fellaini’s nightmare time at Manchester United could be about to end as the club are in negotiations with Napoli regarding the midfielder,
whose £27.5m fee last summer made him the fourth most expensive player in the club’s history.
Fellaini is thought to be minded to make the move to Italy, although he is still weighing up the decision.
Whether it would be a permanent transfer or loan deal is also in the balance.
United would prefer to sell the player and are bracing themselves to take a sizeable loss on him, with any fee in the region of £15m understood to be considered good business.
Napoli, though, want to take Fellaini on a temporary basis as the Italian club have straitened finances and are trying to remove players from their books.
With Fellaini on about £100,000 a week, his terms may also be an issue if it were to be a permanent transfer.
Despite the Belgian’s disappointing form since joining United – he failed to score a goal for the club and was unlucky with injuries –
Rafael Benítez, the Napoli head coach, believes the player’s physicality could be utilised in Serie A.
Napoli denied meeting with Fellaini Napoli are focusing their effort on the midfield, regarding both the purchases and the sales.
The sporting director Bigon is working hard, he flew to Germany yesterday, with a stopover in Bruxelles.
Some reports suggested that he met Manchester United’s Marouane Fellaini,
but Napoli strongly denied it, maybe because of the difficult conditions of the deal (the fee and the wages are very high).
Napoli continue to look for a midfielder, but as for now, they don’t confirm the link to Fellaini. http://gianlucadimarzio.com/en/calciomercato/napoli-denied-the-meeting-with-fellaini/ Kristof Terreur @HLNinEngeland · 8h
Mad world. Italian media reporting Napoli's interested in Fellaini, based on RTBF story, who say their info comes from Italian media.
