Kevin De Bruyne reportedly needs Napoli to signal his former Man Metropolis team-mate Jack Grealish this summer season.
Grealish, 29, joined Metropolis for £100million from Aston Villa in 2021, a price that made him the most costly English participant ever on the time.
Nevertheless, the winger, 29, has struggled to duplicate the shape he confirmed at Villa and though Grealish did shine in Metropolis’s Treble-winning marketing campaign in 2022-23, he has largely underwhelmed on the Etihad.
Grealish discovered himself additional down the pecking order in 2024-25, with the 39-cap England worldwide beginning simply seven Premier League video games – and just one in 2025.
Issues got here to a head earlier this month when he was overlooked of Metropolis’s 27-man squad for the Membership World Cup and he was advised to discover a new membership by boss Pep Guardiola.
And, based on The Sun, Metropolis legend De Bruyne, who joined Serie A champions Napoli this month after leaving the Etihad upon the expiry of his contract, needs them to signal Grealish.
Kevin De Bruyne reportedly needs Napoli to signal his ex-team-mate Jack Grealish this summer season
De Bruyne accomplished a transfer to the Serie A champions this month after leaving Man Metropolis
Grealish is massively out of favour on the Etihad and he has been advised to go away by Pep Guardiola
The report claims Napoli boss Conte has been choosing the brains of De Bruyne all in regards to the winger in anticipation of a possible transfer.
And the 33-year-old is hoping that his reference of his former team-mate will see Napoli transfer for Grealish.
Mail Sport beforehand reported how Metropolis will hearken to mortgage gives if they can’t discover a prepared bidder for Grealish, who has two years left to run on his £300,000-per-week deal.
Alongside Napoli, Everton are among the many golf equipment chasing the 39-cap England worldwide, who’s determined for normal gametime to drive himself into Thomas Tuchel’s World Cup squad.
The German lately advised the winger that he should be enjoying extra to earn a spot in his plans, having left him out of his first two squads.
In the meantime, talking earlier this week, Guardiola additionally insisted that Grealish wants recreation time and that it’s ‘finest’ for him to go away Metropolis.
Guardiola mentioned: ‘He had a dialog with the membership and so they determined it was finest.
‘Jack is an distinctive participant. The one cause why he did not play final season is in fact my choices.
Napoli boss Antonio Conte is claimed to have been choosing the brains of De Bruyne about Grealish
Grealish began seven league video games in 2024-25 and just one for the reason that flip of the 12 months
‘We resolve that he has to play. The membership was trustworthy, he was trustworthy.
‘We resolve that the perfect factor is to remain (behind) and have a spot that he can really feel like he can come again to be the participant like he was within the 12 months of the Treble or all his profession in Aston Villa.
‘With out him it will have been tougher within the 12 months of the Treble.
‘The very fact is within the final two seasons he did not play a lot minutes. He has to come back again to play and have the butterflies in his abdomen that he can play each three days, each three days and present once more the standard he has.’
If Grealish did transfer to Napoli, he would be part of a slew of former Premier League stars who’re plying their commerce in Naples.
Scott McTominay, Billy Gilmour, Romelu Lukaku and Philip Billing have been all a part of their Serie A triumph and that quartet has since been complemented by the marquee addition of De Bruyne.
