{"id":96068,"date":"2025-08-20T05:38:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T05:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/96068\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T05:38:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T05:38:19","slug":"arokodare-is-the-big-name-to-watch-for-napoli-if-lukaku-has-bad-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/96068\/","title":{"rendered":"Arokodare is the big name to watch for Napoli if Lukaku has bad injury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>              <a class=\"mg-blog-thumb\" href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/arokodare-is-the-name-to-watch-for-napoli\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/jamaica-v-nigeria-the-unity-cup-.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-903555 has-webp\" alt=\"BRENTFORD, ENGLAND - MAY 31: Toluwalase Emmanuel Arokodare of Nigeria during the Unity Cup Final match between Jamaica and Nigeria at Gtech Community Stadium on May 31, 2025 in Brentford, England. (Photo by Harry Murphy\/Getty Images)\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/800;max-width:1200px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>BRENTFORD, ENGLAND &#8211; MAY 31: Toluwalase Emmanuel Arokodare of Nigeria during the Unity Cup Final match between Jamaica and Nigeria at Gtech Community Stadium on May 31, 2025 in Brentford, England.  (Photo by Harry Murphy\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><\/a>              &#13;<\/p>\n<p>Tolu Arokodare was already on the Napoli radar over a month ago and the Genk striker is seen as the natural heir to Romelu Lukaku, so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportitalia.it\/2025\/08\/19\/live-calciomercato-tutte-le-trattative-di-giornata-19-agosto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">he is a name to watch.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Partenopei are waiting to find out how bad the damage is to Lukaku\u2019s thigh and if he requires a lengthy lay-off, so if they do get the worst news, then the club will go back onto the transfer market.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve seen <a href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/why-napoli-prefer-hojlund-to-jackson-dovbyk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">talk of Rasmus Hojlund from Manchester United and Roma\u2019s Artem Dovbyk,<\/a> but the name that stands out for us is Arokodare.<\/p>\n<p>Arokodare fits the profile for Napoli<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/sporting-cp-v-krc-genk-pre-seaso.jpg\" class=\"lazyload lazyload wp-image-903554 has-webp size-medium\" alt=\"FARO, PORTUGAL - JULY 19: Tolu Arokodare of KRC Genk with Daniel Braganca of Sporting CP in action during the Pre-Season Friendly match between Sporting CP and KRC Genk at Estadio Algarve on July 19, 2023 in Faro, Portugal. (Photo by Gualter Fatia\/Getty Images) (Milan links)\"  data- style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/800;max-width:1200px\"\/>FARO, PORTUGAL \u2013 JULY 19: Tolu Arokodare of KRC Genk with Daniel Braganca of Sporting CP in action during the Pre-Season Friendly match between Sporting CP and KRC Genk at Estadio Algarve on July 19, 2023 in Faro, Portugal. (Photo by Gualter Fatia\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Nigeria international has <a href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/boniface-the-preferred-milan-jackson-arokodare\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">been watched by Napoli since at least July 10<\/a>, long before the Lukaku injury concern had emerged.<\/p>\n<p>The KRC Genk centre-forward has many tactical similarities with Lukaku and has to be one of the primary candidates for Antonio Conte\u2019s side going forward.<\/p>\n<p>Genk bought him from Amiens for \u20ac5m in January 2023 and last season Arokodare contributed 23 goals and seven assists in 45 competitive games.<\/p>\n<p>                                &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tPost navigation&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRENTFORD, ENGLAND &#8211; MAY 31: Toluwalase Emmanuel Arokodare of Nigeria during the Unity Cup Final match between Jamaica&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-96068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}