Sergio Grasso

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Free Agent
10 Dec 2028
Sunday
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The Napoli Courier

25 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Giovanni Di Lorenzo

82 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Napoli lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Ivan Ilić keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Napoli may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Alessandro Buongiorno 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near David Neres

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Stanislav Lobotka

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market

The André-Franck Zambo Anguissa question follows Napoli around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with André-Franck Zambo Anguissa’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Match

Point won or two lost for Napoli?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Pisa? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

Market

Napoli put David Neres up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. David Neres may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Miguel Gutiérrez

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 10 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

In brief

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The Napoli Courier

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Billy Gilmour out for 103 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Napoli will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Juan Jesus puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Napoli, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Casertana come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Napoli did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Eyes on Giovane again

The phone has started ringing about Giovane again, and this time the name on the line is Juve Stabia. Napoli are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Giovanni Di Lorenzo 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Matteo Politano

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matteo Politano, and the manager let it.

In brief