5 players Napoli should sign this summer

Napoli have a new coach in Carlo Ancelotti and hope to challenge for Serie A next season. Here are five players they should target this summer.

Napoli missed out on the Serie A title this past season, surrendering it to Juventus in the final weeks of the campaign. After recently hiring Carlo Ancelotti and firing Maurizio Sarri, this is a team that look poised to spend some money on the summer transfer market. An overhaul is the only way Ancelotti can put together a team of his liking and one that can ultimately succeed.

The players Napoli have are good, but Ancelotti is used to higher quality talent given his stints at Chelsea, PSG, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich. He also uses a vastly different tactical game-plan than Sarri. In order for the Partenopei to compete domestically and in the Champions League, the club will need to take out the checkbook.

Ancelotti can potentially lure big names to Napoli, the type that would have only previously signed with aristocratic Italian sides such as Juventus, AC Milan and Inter Milan. For Napoli to enter that conversation, like they did in the 1980s and ’90 with the arrival of players like Diego Maradona, they’ll need talent in several areas, including a new starting goalkeeper after ex-Liverpool player Pepe Reina left on a free transfer, as well as a new-look midfield and several new attackers to compliment established strikers such as Dries Mertens and Lorenzo Insigne.

The well-traveled Ancelotti officially signed with Napoli on May 23 and will spend the next few weeks figuring out exactly what Napoli need in order to finally lift their first league title since the club did so with Maradona in 1990.

Here are five players Napoli should target on the summer transfer market.