The Napoli Courier
Squad25 Sep 2028
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.
Squad25 Sep 2028
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.
Squad25 Sep 2028
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 ratings25 Sep 2028
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.
Squad25 Sep 2028
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.
Market25 Sep 2028
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.
Match23 Sep 2028
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.
Market25 Sep 2028
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 ratings25 Sep 2028
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
- Market Sergio Grasso leaves for nothing
- Market Edoardo Parisi leaves for nothing