Napoli Calcio, after a long tug-of-war, has officially announced the departure of Dries Mertens, the club's most prolific striker in history.
President Aurelio De Laurentiis announced it in an interview yesterday, and today the club posted a celebratory video on Twitter with a simple "thank you."
Mertens is leaving on a free transfer after having refused the offer to renew his contract for another year at 2,4 million euros, according to the club.
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Now we'll have to wait and see what the Belgian striker, a naturalized Neapolitan, has to say, a fan idol who has been in turmoil since yesterday. Social media is flooded with insults of all kinds against the De Laurentiis family. And it's not out of the question that further protests will follow. In nine years at Napoli, he scored 113 goals in 295 appearances.
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