Alisson Santos

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Napoli
14 Nov 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Alisson Santos

15 Edition

The Napoli Courier

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Dinis Rodrigues sends Napoli through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Dinis Rodrigues obliged against Carpi. 3‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Napoli.

Player ratings

Both of them Dinis Rodrigues's — 8.74

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.74, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Scott McTominay wants more than Napoli are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

The terraces

One of their own: Máximo Perrone

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Market

Máximo Perrone wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Match

Napoli come up short against Genoa

Genoa left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

A quiet fortnight at Napoli

With 7 players away on international duty the sessions are small and the manager can actually hear himself. It is the one break in the season, and it never quite feels like one.

Player ratings

Alisson Santos in the eights

A performance of 8.24 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Antonio Vergara

Marked 8.13 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief

Back issues
11 Edition

The Napoli Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Adam Hasani breaks a bone — 43 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 43 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Milton Pereyra is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Market

Alisson Santos wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Market

The Scott McTominay story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Scott McTominay signs something — a contract at Napoli or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout

The manager makes Rafa Marín a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Napoli. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

The dugout

Dinis Rodrigues knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Dinis Rodrigues trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Lorenzo Sgarbi’s exile

2 goals in 5 games at Sambenedettese — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Napoli updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

Squad

The penny has dropped for Rafa Marín

He looks like a man who lives here now rather than one who is working here. It took most of a season, and at Napoli the difference is visible from the back of the stand.

Squad

Lessons booked for Máximo Perrone at Napoli

Nobody writes a headline about a tutor. Nobody has to be told, either, what happens to a signing who spends two years being the man nobody can talk to at lunch.

In brief

2 Edition

The Napoli Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Dinis Rodrigues turns Lokomotiv Plovdiv down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Market

Napoli say no — this time

The offer from Tottenham for Alex Meret was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market

Scott McTominay wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Napoli hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Scott McTominay signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Scott McTominay commits to Napoli for another 5 years.

Squad

Kevin De Bruyne in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Napoli this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Napoli may not be able to give Alisson Santos what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Alisson Santos wants continental football; whether Napoli can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

In brief