{"id":8568,"date":"2026-03-26T16:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/8568\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:31:07","slug":"napoli-furious-at-romelu-lukaku-as-star-striker-refuses-to-return-to-training-base-after-withdrawing-from-belgium-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/8568\/","title":{"rendered":"Napoli &#8216;furious&#8217; at Romelu Lukaku as star striker refuses to return to training base after withdrawing from Belgium squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Antonio Conte is also currently away from the training ground on a planned break, his absence was fully agreed upon with the club hierarchy. In his stead, assistant manager Cristian Stellini is overseeing sessions. Both Conte and the Napoli board are said to be equally upset by Lukaku&#8217;s decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/lists\/naples-good-news-lukaku-has-pulled-out-of-the-belgian-national-team-he-wants-to-focus-on-his-own-training\/blt490094d55decfb50\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\">self-manage his schedule<\/a>. The striker&#8217;s camp is currently in talks with the club, but sources indicate that he does not intend to return to Naples until next week.<\/p>\n<p>The tension comes at a delicate time for Lukaku, who has struggled to make an impact this season. Due to a long-term hamstring injury, his involvement on the pitch has been drastically limited. This latest act of perceived defiance is expected to make his path back into the starting lineup significantly more difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Antonio Conte is also currently away from the training ground on a planned break, his absence was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6036,7,4830,5837,2194,5395],"class_list":{"0":"post-8568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-belgium","8":"tag-a-conte","9":"tag-belgium","10":"tag-friendlies","11":"tag-r-lukaku","12":"tag-serie-a","13":"tag-ssc-napoli"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116296435849807891","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}