Ivan Juric’s preferred substitute tipped to land bizarre Italian opportunity

Ivan Juric’s regular substitute candidate Yukinari Sugawara is attracting an Italian football prospect from Napoli.

While figuring out solutions to bolster the centre-back concerns, Ivan Juric has played around the idea of improving his fullbacks. Though it’s been a weird transition, the wide defenders have attained good momentum in recent weeks.

Particularly, the right-back spot where Kyle Walker-Peters won over Juric’s trust to retain his old responsibility. Now, that role-shuffling came at Yukinari Sugawara’s expense which didn’t feel ideal until the turn of the month.

That’s because Sugawara’s defensive lapses may seem rare but they often inflict a heavy blow to Southampton’s winning aspirations. Thus, the Saints are starting to align with their manager that the 24-year-old should be a bit-part substitute player at least for the time being.

Now, that unhappy timeframe is about to be over for Sugawara in the most bizarre manner possible.

Sugawara may be closer to winning major honours in the future
The reason being that Fabrizio Romano has highlighted that Italian silverware hopefuls Napoli are weighing up a transfer for Sugawara.