Emanuele Giaccherini’s agent laments his client’s lack of game time but “for Napoli he’s unsellable”.
The Italian international moved to the San Paolo from Sunderland in the summer of 2016, but he’s only made one start and has only ever played 358 minutes for the Partenopei across Serie A and the Champions League.
“When [Lorenzo] Insigne came off [against Juventus] Emanuele didn’t come on and that means he’s not the vice-Insigne,” Furio Valcareggi reasoned on Radio Marte.
Emanuele Giaccherini’s agent laments his client’s lack of game time but “for Napoli he’s unsellable”.
The Italian international moved to the San Paolo from Sunderland in the summer of 2016, but he’s only made one start and has only ever played 358 minutes for the Partenopei across Serie A and the Champions League.
“When [Lorenzo] Insigne came off [against Juventus] Emanuele didn’t come on and that means he’s not the vice-Insigne,” Furio Valcareggi reasoned on Radio Marte.
“I don’t know who the vice-Insigne is, he [Giaccherini] trains as if he were a starter, when he’s called he comes in and puts in a performance, but I get the sense he won’t be there against Feyenoord.
“Maybe he’ll be on the bench and that would be a success. We stand by the decisions of Maurizio Sarri, he’s a winner and no-one can question his reasoning, we’re just disappointed because we don’t know who the deputy is.
“Could he go to Chievo in January? It’s an intelligent link to make, because [Roberto] Inglese could come to Napoli in January, but they’ve never sought me out so I don’t think so.
“I don’t know anything, Chievo have never been interested otherwise they’d have sought me out.
“A lot of people like him, series clubs, in the top six in the league. The last time Emanuele Giaccherini had a beautiful, tough game was Italy-Germany, memories are long.
“For Napoli though he’s unsellable, they’ll need to convince me of the reasons for that, but at the moment they say he’s unsellable. They’ve always repeated that impossibility.
“If it were up to me he could go to Roma, Juventus, Fiorentina; but if Napoli want to win the Scudetto they need someone as strong as Giaccherini on the bench.
“With him on the pitch instead of Insigne or [Jose] Callejon they’d play the same.”