André-Frank Zambo Anguissa, Napoli's 30-year-old Cameroonian midfielder, enters the final stretch of the 2025-26 Serie A season with his club situation unresolved — not because of anything he has done on the pitch, but because the managerial structure above him remains in flux. Massimiliano Allegri has an agreement in principle to take over at Napoli, yet his official appointment has stalled pending resolution of his existing contract obligations. Until that is settled, every player in the squad exists in a holding pattern, and Anguissa is no exception.
The stakes are real. Antonio Conte's Napoli sit second in Serie A on 73 points from 37 matches — a position built in part on the kind of physical and positional discipline that Anguissa has provided throughout his time at the club. Allegri's tactical preferences differ meaningfully from Conte's high-intensity pressing model, and how the incoming coach views a midfielder who turns 31 in November will shape whether Anguissa remains central to the project or becomes a summer transaction.
His numbers this season offer a clear argument for retention. In 18 Serie A appearances, Anguissa has contributed four goals and one assist, an attacking return that sits well above what most holding or box-to-box midfielders produce in Conte's system. His average match rating of 6.90 reflects consistency rather than volatility — he has not been the decisive figure every week, but he has rarely been the weak link either. For a squad that conceded only 36 goals across 37 matches, that kind of reliability in midfield has structural value.
The complication is age and the club's broader transfer activity. Napoli's recruitment team is active across multiple positions this summer, and the arrival of Kevin De Bruyne — who has confirmed he is fit and targeting the World Cup after an injury disrupted his season — adds another layer of midfield competition. Anguissa is not being pushed out, but the room around him is narrowing.
His AI overall score of 72 out of 100, with a potential ceiling of 45, signals what the data already suggests about a player at this stage: the peak is present-tense, not future-tense. Allegri, a coach who has historically valued experienced, disciplined midfielders, may well find that profile useful. But Allegri also tends to reshape squads in his own image quickly, and players whose contracts or wages create friction tend not to survive that process regardless of their performances.
Anguissa's case, then, is straightforward to evaluate and genuinely difficult to predict. The on-pitch evidence supports keeping him. The off-pitch variables — a new coach yet to take his seat, a transfer window already generating noise around the squad — make that outcome anything but certain.