{"id":9608,"date":"2026-03-31T08:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/9608\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:36:08","slug":"romelu-lukaku-hits-back-at-napoli-exit-rumours-as-striker-clarifies-belgium-rehabilitation-after-noise-surrounding-injury-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/9608\/","title":{"rendered":"Romelu Lukaku hits back at Napoli exit rumours as striker clarifies Belgium rehabilitation after &#8216;noise&#8217; surrounding injury recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a direct address to the fanbase, Lukaku stated: &#8220;This season has been very challenging for me, between the injury and personal loss. I know there has been a lot of noise over the last few days about my situation and it is important to clarify everything. The truth is that in recent weeks I didn\u2019t feel well physically, I underwent some checks while I was in Belgium and it turned out there was inflammation and fluid in the iliopsoas muscle, near the scar tissue,&#8221; the forward explained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is the second problem I have had since I returned at the beginning of November. I chose to do the rehabilitation in Belgium so that I can be ready when called upon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think most of you saw the interview I did in Verona: I could never turn my back on Napoli, never. There is nothing I would want more than to play and make my team win, but right now I have to make sure I am clinically 100%, because lately I wasn\u2019t and this also weighed on me mentally.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a direct address to the fanbase, Lukaku stated: &#8220;This season has been very challenging for me, between&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,5837,2194,5395],"class_list":{"0":"post-9608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-belgium","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-r-lukaku","10":"tag-serie-a","11":"tag-ssc-napoli"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116322879721592222","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608","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=9608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}