The Napoli Courier
Loan watch31 May 2027
51 goals on loan for Cyril Ngonge
38 appearances at Monza and the goals keep coming. Napoli are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Boardroom31 May 2027
Continental nights are coming to Napoli
Qualification is secured, and next season the big floodlit nights are continental ones. For the players it is a stage; for the accounts it is a lifeline; for the supporters it is passports.
Squad31 May 2027
Vanja Milinković-Savić is named among the best
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Napoli will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Squad31 May 2027
Remember the name: Jesús Rodríguez
He is 21, he is averaging 7.09, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.
Squad31 May 2027
22 clean sheets and the golden glove for Vanja Milinković-Savić
The one award on the pitch nobody else can win. 22 games in a season in which nobody scored past him, and a career that will be measured against this one.
Squad31 May 2027
Felipe Augusto 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.
Market31 May 2027
Napoli promote Tiziano Fiorentino from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Tiziano Fiorentino has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market31 May 2027
One of our own: Filippo Melis joins the Napoli first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Filippo Melis is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market31 May 2027
One of our own: Riccardo Marchetti joins the Napoli first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Riccardo Marchetti is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Claudio Gentile steps up from the Napoli academy
- The dugout Dinis Rodrigues knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout Babis Kostoulas has become a man the manager trusts