Papers disagree on Napoli's lineup for Frosinone clash

The build-up to Napoli's home game against Frosinone is dominated by one question: who starts. Even the papers can't agree with each other.

A third Sky Sport piece, picked up by Tutto Napoli, undercuts the first two: it says Allegri "hasn't decided yet" and warns to watch for surprises. Within hours, the same outlet contradicted itself — a sign that nothing is truly fixed at Napoli right now.

Il Mattino works two separate angles. On the pitch, it says the "anticoagulant issue" around McTominay remains ahead of Saturday's game, without going into further detail. Off it, the paper reports that Allegri, following his outburst in Florence, "surprised the squad" with something done at Castel Volturno (the training ground) — again without saying what.

On the transfer front, TuttoMercatoWeb reports a complication: Napoli had been watching Como's Perrone, but Como are "locking him down", and a follow-up piece from the same source confirms the club is working on extending his contract.

Our take

Sky Sport's own shift in a matter of hours from "confirmed" to "hasn't decided" says more than any formation would. There is no certainty right now over who plays, hours before kick-off, with a squad that hasn't even gone into a pre-match retreat.

The anticoagulant issue around McTominay deserves more care and less editorial randomness. This is a player who had heart surgery in September, not a tactical variable, and it should be treated with the respect the story requires.

The Perrone-Como story — with the transfer window closed for a month and not reopening until January — is a padded footnote filling a day short on real news.

What's missing from today's coverage is the simplest question: with a fanbase whistling at the ownership and a league position that doesn't resemble what was promised, why didn't Napoli go into a pre-match retreat ahead of a home game that, after Florence, it cannot afford to get wrong.