Napoli president Aurelio de Laurentiis has cooled talk of buying a new striker.

PSG attacker Ezequiel Lavezzi and Liverpool's Mario Balotelli have been linked with Napoli.

"What would be the use of buying them?" he told Il Mattino. "We're fully covered in attack, and in a few months we're getting [Lorenzo] Insigne back too.

"Let's not forget that Lavezzi makes €4.5m a year and, above all else, that he was the one who wanted to leave Napoli in the first place.

"He made that decision in 2011, when we asked him to stay for another year. But in 2012 he moved to Paris Saint-Germain.

"Sometimes the agents of the players amuse themselves by mentioning our names, but we have nothing to do with Lavezzi nor with Balotelli."