Kalidou Koulibaly NOT for sale in January unless Liverpool, Man City or Man United offer £100m, Reds interest also cools on Napoli teammate Nikola Maksimovic

Kalidou Koulibaly is NOT for sale this January unless a team comes in with a £100million bid, Napoli owner Aurelio De Laurentiis has told Jim White.

Man City had previously been linked with the centre-back before they signed Ruben Dias from Benfica over the summer.

Liverpool have also expressed an interest and are the team most in need due to the long-term injuries to Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez.

Manchester United has also been touted as a possible destination with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer still looking for a partner for Harry Maguire.

But Napoli are reluctant to let the 29-year-old go for anything less than what would be a world record fee for a defender.

Jim White told talkSPORT: “There isn’t a window in the last two, three or four that we don’t see big mentions of the Napoli defender Kalidou Koulibaly.

“This morning, I spoke to Aurelio De Laurentiis, the Napoli owner, and said what about your player, are there bids in for him?

“He laughed it off saying he’s not for sale. He’s absolutely not for sale unless one of the big clubs in England come up with £100million.

“He then says to me ‘I thought you were going to refer to our defender Nikola Maksimovic, the Serbian who is 29 years of age, and Liverpool’s previous interest in him’.

“So I said ‘are Liverpool still interested in your defender?’ He interrupted me to say of course with injury problems to Gomez and Van Dijk but no they haven’t heard from them of late.

“But it seems on this occasion Koulibaly is going nowhere. He stays and that was as recent as this morning. Anyone going in with anything other than £100million for Koulibaly can forget it.”