SSC Napoli sporting director Giovanni Manna has explained why former Manchester United midfielder Scott McTominay has been such a success in Serie A this season.
The Scotland international left Old Trafford last summer and joined the Italian side for £25.7 million.
McTominay immediately hit the ground running in Italy and has not looked back once, helping his side up to first place in the Serie A table.
He has scored an incredible 11 league goals in 30 games this season. Only seven players have found the net more often in Italy and Romelu Lukaku is the one Napoli player to have scored more than him with 12 strikes.
The Scot underlined his importance to the team once again with a well taken brace against Torino at the weekend which put his side three points clear of Inter Milan entering the final month of the season.
Commenting on the transfer, Napoli’s sporting director claimed that everyone was already aware of the talent of a player like McTominay whilst he was at United.
TUTTOmercatoWEB quote Manna as saying, “there is too much work in daily life, that’s why it is difficult to watch so many footballers.”
Nonetheless, this was not necessary for this transfer as he claimed, “someone like McTominay does not need to be discovered, we knew he was an important footballer.”
He also hinted that the player was being used incorrectly at Old Trafford and that Napoli have spotted something that United could not see.
Commenting on what can explain McTominay’s rise to prominence he asserted, “he just had to be put at the centre of a specific project.”
Manna claimed that Napoli will continue to look to the Premier League as a source of recruitment in the future as he claimed it is “the best league in the world, with the best players in the world. The level is high, intensity, tactics, technique. There are many components that can have an impact in Italy.”
This is interesting, as Napoli have been heavily linked to United attacker Alejandro Garnacho who is likely to leave this summer.
McTominay will next be in action when his Napoli side travel to Patrick Dorgu’s former club Lecce on Saturday afternoon.
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Alex Browne
Alex is a huge Manchester United fan, inspired by greats of his homeland such as George Best, Harry Gregg and Norman Whiteside. Proud owner of such niche shirts such as Kleberson, Eric Djemba-Djemba and Gary Neville. Grew up pretending to be Ruud van Nistelrooy and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in the back garden, with little success.
