{"id":38639,"date":"2013-06-07T13:11:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T10:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=38639"},"modified":"2026-01-22T18:26:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:26:48","slug":"chelsea-transfernapoli-confirm-edinson-cavani-move-stamford-bridge-epl-news-38639","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/chelsea-transfernapoli-confirm-edinson-cavani-move-stamford-bridge-epl-news-38639\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Transfer:Napoli confirm Edinson Cavani move Stamford Bridge \/ EPL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Jose Mourinho found a new hero,\u00a0Uruguayan scoring machine\u00a0Edinson Cavani \u00a0is transferred to Chelsea.<\/h2>\n<p>Uruguay international Edinson Cavani, 26, is believed to be a top target for Jose Mourinho this summer with the new Blues boss desperate to land a big-name centre forward.<\/p>\n<p>And despite previously insisting the Uruguayan will stay put, Napoli now confess he could leave.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018On Cavani there is big interest in him from Chelsea,\u2019 De Laurentiis said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Chelsea have called me and I expect they will again in the next few hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018If he ends up staying in Napoli, I will be happy. If he goes, we\u2019ll replace him with the money we get for his sale.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Any potential transfer is unlikely to be cheap for Mourinho, with Cavani boasting a \u00a353million buyout clause that Napoli insist buyers must meet before a deal can happen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Napoli-Confirm-Edinson-Cavani-Chelsea-Transfer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38647\" title=\"Napoli-Confirm-Edinson-Cavani-Chelsea-Transfer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Napoli-Confirm-Edinson-Cavani-Chelsea-Transfer.jpg\" alt=\"Napoli-Confirm-Edinson-Cavani-Chelsea-Transfer\" width=\"610\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Napoli-Confirm-Edinson-Cavani-Chelsea-Transfer.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Napoli-Confirm-Edinson-Cavani-Chelsea-Transfer-280x196.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Napoli-Confirm-Edinson-Cavani-Chelsea-Transfer-513x360.jpg 513w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, it is hoped that the Europa League holders can tempt De Laurentiis into flogging his leading man on the cheap with a player-plus-cash deal.<\/p>\n<p>New Napoli boss Rafa Benitez is keen to raid his former club for several fringe players including Marko Martin, Romelu Lukaku and Oriol Romeu, and a compromise could be found.<\/p>\n<p>Prolific in Italy with Napoli, Cavani has several admirers on the continent and put Chelsea to the sword with the Neapolitans in the Champions League last year. The Neapolitans&#8217; chairman Aurelio de Laurentiis says he will cost \u00a354m, which would beat Chelsea&#8217;s \u00a350m they paid for Torres in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Cavani has scored a whopping 141 goals in 255 games in Italy during spells at Palermo and then Napoli since moving to Europe from Danubio, of the Uruguayan league, in 2006.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"JIpZUDzRo3\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/besiktas-muci-musrati-transfer-legia-braga\/\">Serdal Adal\u0131: The money for Mu\u00e7i and Al Musrati transfers goes to the funds, not to Legia and Braga!<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Serdal Adal\u0131: The money for Mu\u00e7i and Al Musrati transfers goes to the funds, not to Legia and Braga!&#8221; &#8212; NationalTurk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/besiktas-muci-musrati-transfer-legia-braga\/embed\/#?secret=4UDFhRWtjX#?secret=JIpZUDzRo3\" data-secret=\"JIpZUDzRo3\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Mourinho found a new hero, Uruguayan scoring machine Edinson Cavani  is transferred to Chelsea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":38835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,135,1,118,127,14],"tags":[53056,53058,28386,53060,401,53055,53059,473,28385,28848,53061,53062,14173,53057,28849,33121,53052,77175,31670,4854,5477,1126,53063,21279,53054,53053,52666,31517,53051,43060],"class_list":["post-38639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-football","category-general","category-hot","category-sport","category-world","tag-cavani-move-chelsea","tag-cavani-move-stamford-bridge","tag-cavani-transfer-chelsea","tag-cavani-transferred-chelsea","tag-chelsea","tag-chelsea-mourinho-cavani-transfer","tag-chelsea-new-hero-cavani","tag-chelsea-transfer","tag-chelsea-transfer-cavani","tag-chelsea-transfer-edinson-cavani","tag-chelsea-transfer-talk","tag-chelsea-transfer-targets","tag-edinson-cavani","tag-edinson-cavani-move-chelsea","tag-edinson-cavani-transfer-chelsea","tag-epl","tag-epl-cavani-chelsea","tag-football","tag-football-transfer-talk","tag-jose-mourinho","tag-jose-mourinho-chelsea","tag-napoli","tag-napoli-chairman-aurelio-de-laurentiis","tag-napoli-chelsea","tag-napoli-confirm-cavani-chelsea-transfer","tag-napoli-confirm-cavani-transfer","tag-napoli-edinson-cavani","tag-sport","tag-transfer-chelsea-edinson-cavani","tag-uruguayan-edinson-cavani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81232,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38639\/revisions\/81232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}