AC Milan decided against making a concrete move for Napoli star Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, according to intermediary Cristian Zaccardo.
Calciomercato.com reported some background on the Georgian’s arrival at Napoli recently, with their sporting director Cristiano Giuntoli strongly believing that he could replace the huge gap left by Lorenzo Insigne’s exit.
He arrived from Dinamo Batumi for €10m, but Milan – back in the summer of 2020 – tested the ground with his entourage without launching a concrete bid to sign him. Napoli believed in him and now they are enjoying watching a talent take off, with eight goal contributions in 10 appearances so far this season.
Former Milan defender Zaccardo had a role in the deal that saw Kvaratskhelia go to Italy as he was an intermediary in the operation, and he revealed some background on how he ended up at Napoli.
“The staff of Giuntoli and Micheli had intuition and courage, with the support of the vice president Edoardo De Laurentiis. Napoli were skilled and timely: there was a risk that the Premier League would set its sights on Khvicha, who has also been in evidence with the Georgian national team for at least a couple of years,” he said (via MilanLive).
“I only followed the Neapolitan story, but the feeling is that the other big clubs with Leao and Chiesa felt they were okay, for example.”
i still can’t believe we didn’t sign him he was clearly very talented player we missed opportunity he was cheep very talented young
Yeah, but he wouldn’t get playing time he needs beside Leao.
It’s strange thing how Milan dismissed Georgian footballer Kvaratskhelia bringing him to club. By the way, another great Georgian footballer Kakhi Kaladze ( now-days the chief of capital Tbilisi, Georgia)playing for the same club Milan in 90-s ( beginning 2000+() and still having good relations with the Grands of Milan ‘s former players,insisted regrading buying of Kvaratskhelia. But Destiny worked by another way …
whatever out reasons was for not signing that kavicha guy, wasn’t justified.
That guy won the game against us.
We got leao and rebic for that position, main target was acm which they decided CDK is utmost priority.
Thanks for removing my comment Siempre but it still stands. There’s no why or reason Milan didn’t sign Kvar offered in the article. It’s just that Napoli signed him and moreso why Napoli signed him. Show me where in the article Oliver you said the reason or why Milan didn’t sign him.
“I only followed the Neapolitan story, but the feeling is that the other big clubs with Leao and Chiesa felt they were okay, for example.”
-milan was okay with leao and didnt want to risk with kvara,while having young winger already
There we go. I totally my issues that. I think there was an ad on the app before the last part. Asked a simple question and got a simple answer,.easy peasy. That wasn’t so difficult