{"id":9654,"date":"2026-03-31T13:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/9654\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T13:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:25:09","slug":"napoli-issue-alarming-statement-as-romelu-lukaku-continues-to-ignore-calls-to-return-from-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/9654\/","title":{"rendered":"Napoli issue alarming statement as Romelu Lukaku continues to ignore calls to return from Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While his team-mates returned from international duty, the former Chelsea man remained in Belgium, prompting an unprecedented public rebuke from the Serie A side.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute stems from Lukaku&#8217;s decision to undergo personal recovery away from the club\u2019s medical staff. Despite withdrawing from the Belgium squad last week citing fitness concerns, he opted to work with private trainers rather than returning to Naples, a move that was reportedly not authorized by the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While his team-mates returned from international duty, the former Chelsea man remained in Belgium, prompting an unprecedented public&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,5837,2194,5395,1849],"class_list":{"0":"post-9654","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","12":"tag-world-cup"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116324016076025861","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9654","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=9654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}