The FIGC Prosecutor’s Office inspected Napoli’s training ground today and reports in Italy say the players are unhappy after what they believe to be different treatment from other clubs.
The FIGC protocol tells clubs to create a bubble as soon as a player or a staff member tests positive for Covid.
Two Napoli players and a staff member of Gennaro Gattuso’s side tested positive for coronavirus last week with the team that did not make it to Turin to face Juventus.
The FIGC Prosecutor’s Office inspected Napoli’s training ground today and reports in Italy say the players are unhappy after what they believe to be different treatment from other clubs.
The FIGC protocol tells clubs to create a bubble as soon as a player or a staff member tests positive for Covid.
Two Napoli players and a staff member of Gennaro Gattuso’s side tested positive for coronavirus last week with the team that did not make it to Turin to face Juventus.
The Azzurri, however, did only create the bubble at the hotel Golden Tulip Resort, which inside their training complex in Castelvolturno, yesterday.
Il Corriere dello Sport quotes sources of the club saying that today’s inspection has nothing to do with the game that was not played at the Allianz Stadium on Sunday.
Juventus had had two confirmed cases among the external staff on Saturday and they immediately created the bubble although seven of their players have already left it.
The list includes Gianluigi Buffon and Merih Demiral who came back home and Rodrigo Bentancur, Juan Cuadrado, Danilo, Paulo Dybala and Cristiano Ronaldo who left to play for their respective national teams.
The Bianconeri promptly informed the ASL members who confirmed they received the report directly from the club and they will notify the Prosecutor’s Office with the names of the players who have left the isolation.
Milan also failed to create a bubble once the cases of Léo Duarte and Zlatan Ibrahimovic emerged two weeks ago.
All the players were allowed to leave Milanello and Theo Hernandez even celebrated his birthday with some of his friends.
As per Le Gazzetta dello Sport, these are the reasons why Napoli players are upset. They feel they’ve been treated differently from other clubs as they are living in the first ‘real’ bubble created in Italian football. Differently from what happened elsewhere, they are not allowed to leave the hotel to go back home, nor to join their national teams.