Given the lack of interest from (and transfer bans in) Spain, Napoli are only vulnerable to big offers from the Premier League or from Bayern. According to Goal's sources there has been no contact between the two clubs or between Bayern and Higuain. "My friend Aurelio De Laurentiis does not want to sell him," Rummenigge admitted. The 28-year-old has a release clause of €94.7 million (£71.3m), Napoli confirmed last summer. But even if Higuain feels the same way, it will be difficult and, above all, expensive to persuade Napoli to part with a player who is under contract until 2018. Last year, ahead of the Copa America, Argentina coach Gerardo Martino suggested Higuain should move to a better team that would create more chances for him, with Arsenal regularly linked with a potential move.īayern would also fit the bill in that respect. In the summer, however, the cards could be reshuffled. He is an icon in Naples and even spoken of as the true successor of his compatriot Diego Maradona, who was the star of that last title-winning side. Higuain has the chance to lead Napoli to a first Scudetto since 1990 and he will not pass it up. Goal understands there is no chance of a transfer this winter. "Because of his goals Napoli is top of the table."Ĭould Higuain become Bayern's first marquee signing of the post-Pep Guardiola era? "Of all the foreign players I would like to have Higuain the most," incoming Bayern coach Carlo Ancelotti told La Gazzetta dello Sport in December. Since joining Napoli in 2013, he has netted 53 goals in 88 Serie A matches and with 18 in 19 this season he is comfortably the top scorer in Italy, seven goals ahead of his closest challenger. In six years at Real Madrid, he scored 107 goals in 190 league games. The Argentine belongs alongside Lewandowski on the list of the world's top strikers. The public nature of Rummenigge's announcement may have come as a surprise but that Higuain's name appears on management notepads in Munich is logical. It is the beginning of a game of striker poker at the Allianz Arena, and Robert Lewandowski is the table's chip leader. If he says Gonzalo Higuain is a "great player, who Bayern Munich like" there is a clear calculation behind it. Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has been around long enough to know how things work.
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