Reporters in Poland have voiced dissatisfaction with the present situation involving national team midfielder Piotr Zileinski and his relationship with Napoli.
Zielinski is expected to join Inter on a free transfer when his contract expires at the end of the season, but until then, the 29-year-old has been left in limbo, and it appears unlikely that he will return to regular first-team play before departing for San Siro.
The club revealed last week that Zielinski has been left from Walter Mazzarri’s Champions League team list for the second half of the 2023-24 season.
He has made only two appearances in Serie A, one as a starter against Lazio and 45 minutes against Torino before being substituted at half-time.
According to recent rumors, Zielinski has been dealing with muscle difficulties.
Eleven Sports Poland writer Piotr Dumanovski has raised concern for the Poland national team due to Zielinski’s current lack of regular game time.
Dumanovski further indicated that President Aurelio De Laurentiis could have kept Zielinski in Naples ‘without many complications’ if he had honestly wanted to.
“Zielinski won the title of Polish player of the year for the first time, and he deserved it after winning the Scudetto. But now, nobody in Poland understands his exclusion from the squad list,” Dumanovski stated as quoted by TMW.
“It was big news here, the Polish people are criticising De Laurentiis a lot now. In a month, our national team has a set of important matches to play and we need Zielinski to be ready and have consistency. The Euros are at stake.
“Zielinski being out of the Champions League and Serie A is very strange. We know that his last few months with Napoli have not been very good, but in Poland there are lots of Napoli fans who follow him and remember how important he was for the team and their league title.
“We know he is not at the top of his game at the moment, but he should still be on Napoli’s Champions League list. If De Laurentiis had really wanted to keep Zielinski in Naples, he could have done so without many problems.
“He didn’t present a good enough offer and now it’s too late.”
