Napoli has confirmed its interest in signing Marouane Fellaini from Manchester United.

Fellaini was bought by United last summer from Everton for £27.5 million and he came to represent everything that went wrong for the club with David Moyes.

Now Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis says he is ready to offer the Belgium international a way out of the Premier League club.

“Fellaini is one of the names on the table, but not the only one,” the Napoli president told the Italian radio station Kiss Kiss when asked about potential transfers for the upcoming season.

De Laurentiis thinks Fellaini and Gökhan Inler would make a good centre-midfield pairing for Napoli, not because of their playing styles but because of their respective hair styles.

“They would make a nice pair,” said the Napoli president, who bizarrely made Inler wear a lion’s mask at his unveiling in 2011.

“Fellaini has long hair and the Swiss [Inler] is shaven. Together they have a hairstyle that looks like a lion’s mane and three years ago I presented Inler with the mask of a lion!”