Napoli director Meluso reflects on Atalanta defeat and transfer market plans

Napoli sporting director Mauro Meluso gave his apologies on behalf of the gamers for Saturday afternoon’s 3-0 dwelling defeat in opposition to Gian Piero Gasperini’s Atalanta, insisting that the crew have eight video games of the 2023-24 left to ‘honour’ the membership’s loyal supporters.

Although Napoli struck the woodwork twice, first half strikes from Aleksei Miranchuk, Gianluca Scamacca and a 3rd from Teun Koopmeieners two minutes off the ninetieth condemned the Partenopei to a gut-wrenching dwelling defeat.

Meluso spoke in entrance of the DAZN cameras on behalf of the enjoying squad after full-time, telling the media that: “We have now eight matches left to pay our respect to our supporters, however we’re sorry for this heavy defeat in entrance of our followers.

“Let’s play for the target that we set ourselves weekly, with out overthinking an excessive amount of. Sure discussions must occur at one other time,” Meluso mentioned, reported by way of TMW.

The discussions that Meluso was referring to narrate to questions on star midfielder Piotr Zielinski, who is ready to hitch Inter on a free switch upon the conclusion of the 2023-24 marketing campaign.

When pushed once more with regards to Zielinski, and likewise dealing with questions concerning the summer season switch market, Meluso mentioned: “We have to transcend the norm. There was no retaliation or angle from Zielinski, nor did we go in opposition to his needs.

‘With all of the coaches who’ve come and gone this yr, we’ve got all the time mentioned that meritocracy is necessary, there’s little doubt about that.”

Returning to Saturday’s 3-0 defeat to Atalanta, Meluso added: “It hurts the crew and the technical employees. We thought that this yr would go in another way. One thing wasn’t proper, however this isn’t the time to speak about it.

“We hope that the crew finds its greatness instantly, we lacked that at present. As we speak, we misplaced our brilliance, particularly within the first half. The second purpose was decisive, it quashed our hopes. However we deserved the defeat at present regardless.

“The return of excessive morale and aggressive drive. As we speak I got here to talk to maintain the gamers out of the highlight.

“In Naples, no person loses motivation, the supporters make you’re feeling lots of ardour and so they (the gamers) must rediscover their chunk. We’ve had a superb journey below Calzona, we hope to place a collection of wins collectively, however sadly the primary half left us perplexed.