Napoli owner Aurelio De Laurentiis has described the club's Stadio Diego Armando Maradona as "a dump" and said it is in urgent need of replacing.

De Laurentiis was highly critical of the outdated venue and called on Naples' authorities to let him build a new stadium to boost revenue and enable the club to compete with their northern Italian and European rivals.

De Laurentiis, speaking to the Football Business Forum in Milan, highlighted Napoli's inability to compete financially with rivals AC Milan and Inter Milan who can generate up to €14 million ($16m) from Champions League fixtures.

"We can only get up to three million in that Maradona dump. That's quite a difference, isn't it?

"I said the same thing when [Carlo] Ancelotti arrived [in 2018]. Paris Saint-Germain pay the same

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