No meeting with Conte but Lukaku sets sights on last Napoli games and World Cup

Reports in Italy claim that Romelu Lukaku hopes to be available for Napoli’s last three games of the season, but the Belgian striker only met club director Giovanni Manna today, not coach Antonio Conte.

Napoli striker Lukaku briefly returned to Naples to meet club directors on Monday morning, but then returned to Belgium, with the club’s consent, where he had spent the last two weeks to train individually to regain full fitness.

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Lukaku hopes to play for Napoli again

VERONA, ITALY – FEBRUARY 28: Romelu Lukaku of SSC Napoli celebrates after scoring his team second goal during the Serie A match between Hellas Verona FC and SSC Napoli at Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi on February 28, 2026 in Verona, Italy. (Photo by Alessandro Sabattini/Getty Images)

Several sources, inluding Sky Sport Italia and TMW, report that today’s meeting did not involve Napoli coach Conte, but only sporting director Giovanni Manna and Lukaku’s agent Federico Pastorello.

Sky Sport claims that Lukaku didn’t even cross paths with his teammates at the team’s training centre.

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Napoli informed Lukaku about the disciplinary action taken for missing training with the team in the last two weeks.

VERONA, ITALY – FEBRUARY 28: Romelu Lukaku of SSC Napoli and Unai Núñez of Hellas Verona during the Serie A match between Hellas Verona FC and SSC Napoli at Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi on February 28, 2026 in Verona, Italy. (Photo by Alessandro Sabattini/Getty Images)

Lukaku has been fined and frozen out of the team as he refused to return to Naples during the break in order to remain in Belgium to accellerate his recovery.

After the meeting, the club agreed that Lukaku could return to Belgium to continue training individually.

CASTEL DI SANGRO, ITALY – AUGUST 14: Romelu Lukaku of Napoli leaves the pitch after suffering an injury during the pre-season friendly match between Napoli and Olympiacos at Stadio Teofilo Patini on August 14, 2025 in Castel di Sangro, Italy. (Photo by Giuseppe Bellini/Getty Images)

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According to TMW, Lukaku is expected to return to Naples in two weeks and, by then the ex-Roma and Inter star hopes to be fit for the last three games of the season against Bologna, Pisa and Udinese and, naturally, the World Cup with the Belgium national team.

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