You are conveniently ignoring the fact that we have better players, a much deeper squad, and far more resources than Napoli.
okay, let's talk facts.
in 2015/16, napoli were leading the table until mid february, then they lost to juve. anyone would expect a team in a similar position to triple their efforts, but they drew the two following league games against milan and fiorentina. during the same season, they lost to inda in the coppa. in the europa league, they were going very strong winning all group matches, but choked against villarreal in the first knockout round. i don't think either villarreal or inda had a better or deeper squad.
next season, they finished 3rd behind roma. do i need to add anything about resources, players or depth? their coppa exit was excusable against juve, as were their cl exit against real too.
and then sarri's best league season, when he became the tuz legend he is. in '17/18, they choked when it mattered the most: 0-3 against fiorentina, a draw against torino. they lost 5 points during these two games, and finished with 4 points behind us. their fate was in their own hands 4 rounds before the end of the scudetto race, and they simply blew it, against 9th placed fiorentina and 10th placed torino. not to mention their coppa exit against atalanta (big team, big resources!), their 3rd place in the cl behind shakhtar (6 points against city, donetsk and feyenoord, bravo!), or their embarrassing home defeat against leipzig in their el.
is it the money, the squad depth, the resources, or is it maurizio sarri not rotating his fucking squad and squeezing everything out of his preferred 12-14 players? fun fact: callejon was in the squad 50 times in '17/18, and played every single match. hamsik played 49 out of 50. koulibaly played 45 matches, and was never subbed. hysaj was fielded 47 times, and an experienced player like maggio barely played even against minnows. squad players like diawara, rog, tonelli, giak were also barely used.
i did the math for you: his favorite 14 players covered 91% of the playtime, and the rest, an other 9 players only got 9%.
