{"id":619523,"date":"2026-04-20T16:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/619523\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T16:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:38:08","slug":"romelu-lukaku-holds-clear-the-air-talks-with-napoli-after-training-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/619523\/","title":{"rendered":"Romelu Lukaku holds clear-the-air talks with Napoli after training absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, he returned to Naples to hold what have been described as &#8220;calm, collaborative and constructive&#8221; talks with his club. The discussions also included his agent Federico Pastorello and Napoli sporting director Giovanni Manna.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The talks are understood to have led to an amicable solution, with sources insisting the matter is now closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During the discussions, Lukaku updated Napoli on his recovery. It is hoped the striker will be available for selection in about two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, he returned to Naples to hold what have been described as &#8220;calm, collaborative and constructive&#8221; talks with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-619523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}