The captain of Kosovo, Amir Rrahmani, will remain part of the Napoli team for a long time. It is announced that next week the renewal of Rrahman's current contract with the Italian team, which expires in the summer of 2024, will be formalized. "Sport Italia" reports on Tuesday that the agreement between the parties has already been reached and next week will to finalize everything. With the contract renewal, Rrahmani will stay at Napoli until 2027. He is considered one of the key players in the team and therefore he will be the first one that the club will renew his contract to secure his services even for the next four years.
"Amir Rrahmani is ready to renew his contract with Napoli. The Kosovar defender who is shining this season with Spalletti will renew his contract that expires in 2024 until 2027. Next week, Rrahman's agent will meet with the sporting director of Napoli to finalize all the details," the website wrote. Italian on Wednesday.
Rrahmani has returned strongly at the beginning of this year after the injury he suffered in October last year and is considered the leader of the defense by coach Luciano Spalletti. He has so far made 16 appearances in all competitions, while scoring one league goal in 13 games played. Rrahmani and Napoli are marching this season towards the championship title in Serie A, which will be the first for the Neapolitan team since 1980. In total, Napoli has won two championship titles, while this will be the third in history of the club. After 20 matches played in the championship, Napoli has escaped at the top of the table with 53 points, 13 more than the closest follower, Inter. In fact, Napoli has only one loss this season, which was against Inter, while it has also recorded 17 wins against two draws. Last week, Rrahmani admitted in an interview to the Italian media that they can win the title of champion, but added that they are going game after game. He also said that in addition to the title, Napoli is aiming at least to advance to the quarter-finals of the Champions League, having already passed the group stage. In the 1/8 finals, Napoli will face Eintracht Frankfurt. The first match will be played on February 21 in Germany, while the return match will be played three weeks later in Italy. Rrahmani joined Napoli from Verona in the summer of 2020 for 14 million euros and within a period managed to become one of the most important players of the team. Since 2016, he has been part of the Kosovo representative team and so far has registered 48 appearances and scored 6 goals with "Dardans".