Napoli, the dream of the Scudetto has never been so alive. And McTominay is already the symbol

Naples, 28 April 2025 - Starting from the dawn of spring, the supposed key days in view of the head-to-head duel between theInter and Napoli for the Scudetto, there have been plenty of them, perhaps even in abundance. In fact, as they say in these cases, between rhetoric, superstition, reality and hope, anything can happen until arithmetic issues its unquestionable sentences. And yet, the last two rounds of Serie A they really seem to have inexorably directed the fight for the title: Nerazzurri KO against Bologna e Roma and Neapolitans victorious at the expense of Monza e Turin and since yesterday evening now the sole leader of the rankings with well 3 points ahead of their rivals when only the tournament gong is missing 4 game. Perhaps few for those who, since yesterday, have been chasing, and perhaps many for those who now command and already savor the flavor of a celebration just a few minutes away. 2 years from the previous one. In the meantime at Fuorigrotta many things have changed and happened, on the pitch and especially off it, but today all the critical issues of the previous post-scudetto management seem light years away. Indeed, to tell the truth, the feeling has been there since last summer, that of a restyling in theory (very much in theory) good only to bring back the Napoli in Europe, possibly from the main door.  

McTominay's Season Numbers

  Practice has instead spoken of a deluxe market session for well 150 million paid to give to the new coach Antonio Conte a squad made up of players who are made and finished, without worrying about expenses or, as happened in the past, about hunting for young talents to wean and then, one day, resell at a higher price. At the time, given the huge outlay not exactly in style Aurelio De Laurentiis, there was almost talk of an all-in, and certainly not only to get one of the first four places in the standings, also because there was the feeling that, due to costs and age, none of the new acquisitions could become a future capital gain. Perhaps, even today the situation is like this, but with a very big exception that goes by the name of Scott McTominay. Paid 30,5 million al Manchester United, plus the 10% on the future resale, today the Scotsman, despite the 29 years which he will turn in December, is probably worth almost double and this time it has nothing to do with the always very expensive demands of a president who notoriously makes even the supporting players in the squad pay a lot of money (or at least, he tries). McTominay he literally took the team on his shoulders and he did it in every way. With the wind in his sails, in the midst of an injury emergency, with the formation modelled with the 4-3-3 or with the 3-5-2 and also with the interlude of the 4-4-2: the Scotsman has never had a period of decline or confusion, even going well beyond the 'simple' offensive turnover (12 goal e 4 assists), the one that notoriously catches the eye of most people. The native of Lancaster, therefore probable regret also of theEngland of the ball and not only of that Manchester United who let him go with too much ease at the end of August, is a born leader, as well as a player capable of enhancing those around him. And we're talking about midfield, yes, but also the other departments, being practically an 'all-rounder'. The same Romelu Lukaku, par excellence a team and maneuver element rather than a soloist despite what his role as a bomber usually prescribes, he came out of this synergy feeling encouraged as perhaps only done by that other winning axis composed (in truth more intermittently) with James Raspadori. In conclusion, McTominay It does good to everyone: to himself, by consecrating himself on the threshold of 29 years, to his teammates and, of course, to the Napoli, who is already beginning to savor the flavor of the celebration.

The Napoli calendar

  In reality, and here superstition, arithmetic or a wise mix of both come into play again, at the end of hostilities there are still some missing 360 ' to play, for the Azzurri equally distributed between away and home games. It is precisely in the first area that those that are perhaps the last obstacles before being able to uncork bottles aged two years concern. We start from Lecce and its Street of the Sea, which next Saturday at 18 they will try to join forces in a single body to give themselves a salvation that has become even more important after the premature death of the physiotherapist Graziano Fiorita. Between similar ambitions, or perhaps simply for the desire to snatch more points from a big team (and precisely theInter knows something about it), also the Tardini di Parma could be a trap for the Napoli, which on paper should have fewer problems in overcoming the Maradona the resistances before the Genoa and then of Cagliari: the Ligurian rossoblù are safe and already quite 'on holiday', while the Sardinian ones are not at the moment, but by the end of May they will probably have a much more defined situation. At the same time, Inter will have to take full points against Verona e Lazio a San Siro e Turin e As an away from home, with two more obstacles in between: the semi-finals of Champions League against Barcelona and the hope that in the meantime the Napoli, in turn, makes at least one mistake to give itself the play-off, the one that until a few weeks ago in the old town Pinetina represented a scarecrow. Then, between Bologna e Roma, for the Nerazzurri everything suddenly changed, with the complicity of injuries and a decline in form of the most representative men. Napoli instead, even though it does not have an empty infirmary (outside Juan Jesus e David Neres and to verify the impact of Alessandro Good morning), found the right answers from the key men. Above all McTominay, for some already the symbol of the increasingly probable championship, for someone else, regardless of how the championship ends, the most successful transfer coup: with a view to the present and also to a future in which important arguments could be needed to secure a Tale from the periodicals 'stomach ache'.

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