The Napoli striker had injured herself in the friendly with Olympiacos. In the event of an operation, it should be stopped between 4 and 5 months

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August 18, 2025 (modification at 13:26) – NAPLES

In the language, cruel and necessarily “brutal”, of medicine, it went like this: “Following the injury remedied in the match against Olympiacos, Romelu Lukaku underwent, at the Grande Hospital pine forest, to instrumental tests that highlighted a high degree injury of the femoral rectum of the left thigh. surgical “. And therefore, for the series at “worst there is never an end”, other than two months to find Big Rom at the center of the Napoli attack, because a “high degree lesion” looks a lot like a tear, that is. But then there is that passage “surgical advice” that becomes an existential torment: the summit of the medical staff, with specialists, will try to understand what the best solution is to recover Lukaku and the hypotheses are two: conservative therapy or surgery.

The two hypotheses for Lukaku

The striker has a very serious but not complete injury of the fabrics, so you can proceed with conservative therapy or directly with the surgery. But the conservative therapy, apparently less drastic, hides an insidia: it needs time to take effect and does not fully guarantee the resolution of the problem; It would not exclude the need for an intervention at a later time, with consequent loss of further time. That’s why, if the intervention would involve a 4-5 month stop (Lukaku in fact would return no earlier than January 2026), the choice of conservative therapy could mean a stop that would vary from 2 to 7 months, in the event that in the end it should be necessary to operate the Belgian striker of Napoli anyway (he would mean returning to March/April 2026, with the risk of losing even the World Cup in America). In the next few hours, player and club will make a decision of mutual agreement.

Naples on the market

And at this point, from one summit to another, because De Laurentiis, Conte and Manna must move on to the operational phase, the one on the market: they can the champions of Italy, engaged in the Champions League, approach the season with a single center forward, Lucca, who will debut on Saturday 23 August in Reggio Emilia in place of Big Rom? The answer is in fact: Napoli looks for an attacker. And when thirteen days are missing at the end of the market, it is not even easy to find the right one.



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