The Italian Football Thread

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Gennaro Gattuso has forfeited his salary to ensure that Napoli employees, who are placed on furlough, will still receive their full pay.

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The Guardian

Dries Mertens agrees new contract at Napoli to disappoint Chelsea and Inter



Dries Mertens has agreed a new three-year extension with Napoli, ending Chelsea and Internazionale’s hopes of signing the 33-year-old on a free transfer this summer.

The Chelsea manager, Frank Lampard, is a huge admirer of the Belgian and was one of his main targets this summer. Inter, meanwhile, offered Mertens a three-year deal worth £170,000 a week but in the end the forward decided to stay at the club he joined in 2013.

Napoli did not match the offer from Inter but Mertens will be paid £140,000 a week once the new contract starts and will also receive a signing-on bonus of £2.2m. The former PSV Eindhoven player has been one of the best forwards in Serie A for the past few seasons and Napoli fans will be delighted that he has decided to stay.

Mertens has scored 90 league goals in 226 matches for Napoli, his highest tally coming in 2016-17 with 28 goals in 35 league games. Napoli are in sixth place in Serie A with 12 games remaining.

Serie A is suspended until 14 June unless the Italian government gives it the green light to resume a day earlier as planned. The league announced last week that the 20 teams agreed to resume competition on 13 June in empty stadiums. However, the Italian soccer federation announced on Monday, a day after a government decree banning sports until 14 June, that it was complying.

FIGC announced that “pending any further and desirable decision by the competent authority” its competitions will remain suspended until that date. Serie A has been suspended since 9 March, when the government ordered a nationwide lockdown.

[Ach]

San Siro to be no more.

Iconic stadium

[Zenith]

Inter take the lead as Eriksen scores directly from a corner kick following Ospina's howler.

https://streamja.com/l27pZ

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1-1 Mertens has now become all-time leading scorer for Napoli

https://streamja.com/21Lka

Also props to Ospina for his kick to find Insigne, making up for his earlier mistake.

[Ach]

Sarri is awful

Napoli win the cup

[Highbury Hillbilly]

Congrats to Napoli, Gattuso deserves some silverware after a nightmare stint with Milan.

[Zenith]

Great combination play by Conté's team for the opener.

From Candreva to Martínez, who back-heels the ball to Lukaku, followed by a nice one-two between him Eriksen.

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shame Lukaku scuffs the finish a bit and ruins it,was a nice move. Tuck that ball into the corner and it looks so much nicer.


Still, wish we could do anything like that these days.

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Also Eriksen is class when he isn't sulking at Spurs.

[Ach]

Dybala with a great finish

Hopefully he doesn't take this form in to international duty

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2-0

Ronaldo

Juve 7 clear.

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Ronaldo with a GOAT free kick

They won 4-1

Great assist as well

Lazio 0-3 Milan

Still playing but fair to say that match is done as is the title race if there ever was one.

[Santi]

Goatnaldo the first player to score 25 serie a goals for Juve in almost 60 years, beast.

[Ach]

Also the first player ever to score 25 in big 3 leagues.

No one comes close to him