Napoli president Aurelio de Laurentiis says they'll be prepared to buy in January.

ADL was speaking after victory over Sassuolo.

He said, “Today we passed the biggest test of all and we defend this top spot for the honour of Naples and the Neapolitans. That counts more than the Scudetto. We'll win the Scudetto sooner or later, but after that we have to turn the page and create the kind of organisation that annoys the North.

“Now they've started introducing VAR, so who knows what other obstacles they could put in our way to try and stop us?

“We're playing magnificent football, which is not easy, and invested a lot of money, yet people talk about how much the others have invested. We saw that there are clubs who invested three times as much and still lose 2-0 (he said referring to Milan).

“You can only achieve certain results with time and hard work, with consistency. There is always this frenetic approach of fans asking me who we will buy, but why cause problems for the Coach?

“In January we need to find players who are useful additions, not players who stay on the bench and play 10-15 minutes."