Agent: Napoli wanted Witsel, but…

By Football Italia staff

Axel Witsel’s agent claims Napoli wanted the Borussia Dortmund new boy but warned him ‘he’d just be one of many’ at the San Paolo.

Witsel recently ended a 20-month spell in China as he joined Dortmund, but Paul Stefani suggested the former Juventus target could have become a Napoli or Manchester United player.

“There were other teams interested. Manchester United wanted him, Napoli too,” he told Het Laatste Nieuws.

“However I told Axel, ‘at Dortmund you’re No 1. In Manchester you’d be just one of many, the same in Naples.”

The midfielder represented Belgium at the World Cup earlier in the summer, helping his country achieve a third-place finish.

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