The Napoli Courier
Squad15 Mar 2027
The knee: Scott McTominay out for 69 days
69 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Napoli lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market15 Mar 2027
Napoli say no — this time
The offer from Ilves for Milton Pereyra 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.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
David Neres beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad15 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Napoli
Victor Osimhen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match13 Mar 2027
4 matches without a win for Napoli
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Napoli are no longer polite ones.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Tijjani Reijnders falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Napoli lose Manuel Nardozi
24 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Nobody on the pitch touched Victor Osimhen
7.86, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Napoli had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Match13 Mar 2027
Napoli and Como take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
In brief
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- The dugout Mathías Olivera is still paying for one afternoon at Napoli
- The dugout Dani Ceballos has become a man the manager trusts