Lukaku has turned down a №9 at Napoli. It is known what was the reason

Romelu Lukaku started brightly at Napoli, scoring his debut goal in his first game for Antonio Conte's side. In Naples, he chose his number eleven, despite the fact that the club insisted on other numbers on his shirt.

As we read in the pages of Il Mattino, Napoli wanted the Belgian to take the number nine under which Victor Osimhen plays (although actually already played), but Lukaku decided to show respect for his rival in the position:

‘He scored at 1-1 and headed in the return. It took a few minutes to make Osimhen forget, as if it was nothing. But the feeling in the audience at Maradona was that he was waiting for nothing more than a new idol.

Number 11, because you need ‘respect’ in life. And if Victor stays in Naples, albeit out of the line-up, number nine will still be his. He can not accept it, the Belgian, he refused, although the club insisted’.

Recall, earlier it became known that Napoli head coach Antonio Conte suspended Osimhen from playing in the first team, and the club excluded him from the application for the season due to the final deterioration of relations between Osimhen and club president Aurelio De Laurentiis.