World Soccer

MOST WANTED Bosmans

DRIES MERTENS

(Napoli)

Any team lucky enough to recruit the long-serving Belgium international on a free transfer can be sure of a hat-trick of welcome benefits: the versatility to operate as main striker, left-winger or front-line floater, lots of goals and a gutsy attitude.

The 32-year-old, a Neapolitan favourite for the past seven seasons, might physically be a tiny willow in a forest of towering oaks, but he

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