The season of 2016/17 has been without a doubt one of the best of Merten's career. Maurizio Sarri gave him the opportunity of subsituting Arkadiusz Milik in the offensive of Napoli and he made use of it.
The numbers speak for themselves: the international Belgium scored 20 goals,16 in the Italian League and four during Champions League, plus assisting to score another 11. Statistically he scores a goal every 96 minutes in the Italian League and one every 98 minutes in the European League, which is not bad at all.
Real Madrid is one of the teams that is considering the possibility of counting with the skilled attacker, that will finish his contract with Napoli the 30th of june of 2018. Mertens came to the Neapolitan squad in 2013 after they paid 9.48 millions to PSV.
Dries Mertens has reached his maturity in a brutal way and now he wants to pass with excellence in one of the temples of European football....maybe even his future stadium?