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Manna: ‘Napoli fortunate we found a Lukaku buyer’ in Fenerbahce

Napoli director Giovanni Manna raised Fenerbahce eyebrows when admitting they were ‘fortunate we found someone ready to buy’ Romelu Lukaku. The centre-forward had a tense relationship with the club that hit rock bottom in the build-up to the 2026 World Cup, because he refused to return from Belgium to undergo treatment for his injury.

— Football Italia, publisher's words · Read the original ↗

12 outlets5 languages4 countriesUpdated

Who broke it

Il Napolista

IT · IT

Followed by

11

outlets in 5 languages over 21 h 3 min.

Our read

Corroborated (6)

6 of 9 outlets each added at least one detail no earlier report had; the other 3 repeat it. That is independence, not agreement: two of them can still contradict each other.

Judged on the 9 outlets in our latest edition; the timeline keeps all 12 we have seen.

Coverage timeline

12 outlets · first-seen order
  1. +0 min

    Il NapolistaIT · ITBroke it

    Manna lo scorso 2 settembre: “Per noi il Napoli è forte e completo così”

  2. +1 h 56 min

    Corriere dello SportIT · ITOwn reporting

    Manna: "Gila? Ci abbiamo provato, bravo il Milan". Poi parla anche di Gasperini

  3. +3 h 27 min

    Football ItaliaEN · ITOwn reporting

    Manna: ‘Napoli fortunate we found a Lukaku buyer’ in Fenerbahce

  4. +13 h 51 min

    Het Laatste Nieuws SportNL · BEOwn reporting

    “Een geluk dat we een koper voor hem vonden”: sportief directeur Napoli geeft toe dat verkoop van Romelu Lukaku niet liep zoals gehoopt

  5. +14 h 7 min

    TuttoMercatoWebIT · ITOwn reporting

    Manna voleva Gasp ancor prima di Conte. Ma l'addio all'Atalanta non era maturo...

  6. +16 h 22 min

    DH Les SportsFR · BEOwn reporting

    ”Les footballeurs sont égoïstes”, “On a eu de la chance de le vendre” : le directeur sportif de Naples revient sur le départ de Lukaku

  7. +16 h 35 min

    WalfootFR · BEOwn reporting

    Naples en remet une couche sur Romelu Lukaku : "On a eu de la chance de lui trouver un club"

  8. +16 h 51 min

    VoetbalkrantNL · BEOwn reporting

    Napoli doet boekje open over vertrek Lukaku: "Geluk dat iemand hem wilde kopen"

  9. +17 h 10 min

    So FootFR · FRRepeats

    Serie A : Le Napoli avait hâte de se débarrasser de Romelu Lukaku

  10. +20 h 22 min

    FotomacTR · TROwn reporting

    Napoli'den gündem olan Lukaku itirafı! "Onu alacak birini bulduğumuz için şanslıydık"

  11. +20 h 49 min

    Cumhuriyet SporTR · TRRepeats

    Napoli'den Romelu Lukaku itirafı: 'Şanslıydık, onu alabilecek birini bulduk'

  12. +21 h 3 min

    Hürriyet — SporTR · TRRepeats

    Napoli'den Lukaku açıklaması! 'Şanslıydık diyebiliriz'

First seen is our own clock across 245+ feeds; it is not a guarantee of who published first. Each time is the earlier of the publisher's own timestamp and our first sighting. Headlines and summaries are the publishers' own words, linked to the original. How we work out who broke it.