Borna Barisic’s agent is going to have to up his efforts between now and the summer to get the Rangers player the level of transfer he wants.
Speaking last week, Barisic’s representative will have irritated Steven Gerrard with claims Rangers won’t be able to hold on to the player, given the level of interest of interest.
However, it seems clear that much of that interest is being pushed by the player’s camp, and it’s a case of Barisic being edged towards Serie A clubs, rather than them coming to ask Rangers about a transfer.
On Sunday we covered claims from Italy that the fullback was a possibility for Napoli. It. very much felt like he’d been offered to them and was therefore one of a number of players under consideration, without anything concrete in it.
CalcioNapoli24 now go some way to bursting the Barisic bubble. Napoli specialist journalist Ciro Venerato has made clear ‘the left back of Rangers is not a first choice’.
The Italian club are looking at other options instead.
