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Only a week into the season, but it appears Napoli Boss Antonio Conte has already gone full Conte.

I'm short, you see a short,

I'm short, differently like, as a new.

After an opening day defeat,

he said he sighed, melted like snow in the sunshine.

So how can Napoli avoid another disappointing season after their title triumph in

2023?

It's moving on Victor Osimen and reunited content with Romulukaku the answer?

I'm Ayo Kim Wellerre. Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast. Okay, so with us today we have the Athletics Italian Football Correspondent James Horn Castle,

as well as Jack Pitt Brook who covered

Antonio Conte's time at Tottenham. James for Antonio Conte wasn't so pleased with

his Napoli play saying they're melted like snow in the sunshine after

Sunday's three-nill defeat against Verona. Just give us a little bit of context to that.

It seems super early though for him to be pretty angry the season hasn't even

started properly yet absolutely i. oh i mean he'd already kind of put us all on message last week when Napoli needed penalties to

eliminate 2nd Division Modina from the copritalia that game had finished nil-0 and

was not what a lot of people expect from a Conte season opener,

because in the past that Yerventus and Inter,

you know, they've tended to score four goals in their first game and everyone gets

excited and says this team is going to win something this year so when it came

to their first game in Citi A Wayne Verona, yeah, there was some anticipation that, okay, we're going to see a team that challenges for the title this year.

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