The Napoli Courier
Match29 Dec 2035
Still nobody has beaten Napoli
The unbeaten run reaches 25. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match29 Dec 2035
Rodrigo Mora leads the rout of Pescara
3‑0, and Rodrigo Mora took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Napoli tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Match29 Dec 2035
The run at home goes on for Napoli
15 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Player ratings31 Dec 2035
A brace, and Rodrigo Mora takes the afternoon — 8.59
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Rodrigo Mora provided it, and the 8.59 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market31 Dec 2035
Alphadjo Cissé has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Napoli they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market31 Dec 2035
Idrissa Guèye hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Napoli can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Dec 2035
Rodrigo Mora is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.45 with 17 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad31 Dec 2035
A falling-out at Napoli
Khéphren Thuram and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market31 Dec 2035
Napoli promote Angelo Marchetti from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Angelo Marchetti 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.
In brief
- Market Edoardo Martini steps up from the Napoli academy
- Squad Napoli count the cost of losing Enrico Paganelli
- The dugout A promise honoured at Napoli