This was in large part to the signing of Lukaku for a fee of €30m from Chelsea last summer.

The city instead beatified a Lazio substitute whose goals from the bench against Inter last week ensured their team remained top of the league.

Inter were three points clear at the top of the table in April, but suffered a six-point swing with consecutive losses against Bologna and Roma at the end of that month, which put Napoli back in cont...