Isaac Solet

Defensive Midfielder - Napoli
22 Oct 2035
Monday
Process

Marked for Isaac Solet

426 Edition

The Napoli Courier

25 Sep 2034
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Filippo Missori damages knee ligaments — 126 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 126 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings

Both of them Alessio Cacciamani's — 8.87

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.87, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Amir Richardson 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.

Match

Another one collected away from home

7 on the bounce on the road for Napoli. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

Squad

Rafa Marín 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.

Match

Nobody wants to play Napoli right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad

Lorenzo Lucca 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.

Player ratings

Giovane runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Alessio Cacciamani the difference as Napoli beat Hellas Verona

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Alessio Cacciamani. 3‑1 against Hellas Verona, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

In brief

Back issues
418 Edition

The Napoli Courier

31 Jul 2034
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Rafa Marín 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

Words at Napoli training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alessandro Buongiorno is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Luca Di Maggio pulls a muscle — 18 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 18 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Market

Lecce expected to open talks for Giuseppe Ambrosino

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Napoli will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Squad

Nico Paz has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Napoli will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market

Toma Bašić told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Toma Bašić has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Napoli.

In brief

412 Edition

The Napoli Courier

19 Jun 2034
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Napoli are in among the leaders

Position 1 and 96 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market

Napoli turn down Lecce for Giuseppe Ambrosino

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Nico Paz wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

Rafa Marín 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

Words at Napoli training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alessandro Buongiorno is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Market

Manuel Nardozi is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Napoli is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

In brief

407 Edition

The Napoli Courier

15 May 2034
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Lorenzo Lucca

32 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

Tempers go at Napoli

Rafa Marín was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Words at Napoli training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Neres is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Lorenzo Lucca

“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 Miguel Gutiérrez question follows Napoli around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Miguel Gutiérrez’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Market

Napoli put Isaac Solet up for sale

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

In brief