So fast has won Scott McTominay about Napoli fans who, for some followers, has already reached a greater icon status than the famous Neapolitan pizza.
'Napoli. McTominay. Pizza. In that order, 'Read a great club flag on the wall of a restaurant led by a fan.
It sounds dramatic, but it is credit for McTominay that, within six months after the Manchester United union, has the fans base wrapped in its finger.
The feeling is mutual. McTominay is captivated by the city and the club. He has had a brilliant start in Italy along with his girlfriend, Cam Reading, an asset manager.
In the coastal city of southern Naples, where the average summer temperatures sizzle at 31 degrees and the center is a Unesco World Heritage site, there is a world of possibilities for tortolites to explore.
There are also unlimited possibilities in the field, with McTominay one of the key men behind the inclination of the Napoli Serie A title under Antonio Conte. They currently lead Inter Milan for a point.
Scott McTominay and his girlfriend Cam Reading are loving life in Italy after joining Napoli
The couple has been exploring the possibilities that life in southern Italy has to offer
McTominay has become a fan of fans in Napoli thanks to his goal and work ethics
While the couple enjoyed a canopy and looked through the Amalfi coast in September, Reading declared on Instagram that they had already 'enamored from Italy'. They sat in a restaurant on a medieval tower in front of the South while the Mediterranean Sea shone with the promise of the end of summer.
A fan in the comments section called the 'Queen of Italy' and you can present a case that McTominay is on the way to becoming the king.
The Scot has already scored seven goals, including one against the rivals of the title and another within 25 seconds against as close to the beginning of the season.
Manchester United loses the objectives in which he broke with the last campaign, 10 in total, and could well overcome that in the blue strip of Napoli this term.
The Italian press can't stop talking about him. 'The new leader of Napoli', Corriere dello Sport He called it in December. “Idol of fans, loved by their teammates,” they also scribbled. The Gazzetta dello Sport See it as practically undoubted: “An immovable pawn on the Napoli chess board,” they wrote.
Help that McTominay has family faces out there. The former United Romelu Lukaku teammate is the top scorer this season, having hit nine goals.
He also has one of his close friends of the Italian national team, Billy Gilmour.
The duo spent time at Christmas along with Bull Terrier Staffordshire of Gilmour, with McTominay in a historic Kit of Napoli.
A pizza restaurant led by a follower even places McTominay over the cuisine in the region
It is said that McTominay and Reading moved to a coastal city and both claim to “love” life
He got a goal in 25 seconds against how and has been scoring freely since then
He opted for the 1987-88 shirt, a fence in the hearts of Napoli fans because Diego Maradona used to use it. That season Glor Azzurri could only finish second, but there was no doubt that it was a great team, after having doubled the previous year.
McTominay is It is said that it has become quite emotional Seeing Maradona's statue for the first time at the homonym stadium, clearly respectful of the glorious past that this club has.
Conte takes the development of its players seriously and has ensured that the couple integrates as well as it can teach them Italians.
'The coach has been really good. Of course, I still don't speak Italian, and I need to learn, but he has been helping me in training, “Gilmour told Dazn earlier this season.
McTominay also said: 'Italian is not easy, because I speak fast. But every time I listen to people in Italian, they speak very fast!
“I) I have collected small bits in training sessions, the hotel, in the city.”
The 28 -year -old mocked a small linguistic turn in January when he wanted to read happy birthday in January, in Italian.
“Happy birthday, all my love in the world,” he wrote. In Scottish: “Happy birthday, all my love in the world.”
Help that has the teammate of Scotland Billy Gilmour with him in the famous blue
Napoli's manager, Antonio Conte, has been teaching the Italian couple and has them at the top of Series A
Reading, a director of an asset management company, has been with McTominay since at least 2023
It is not exactly clear when or how McTominay and reading first crossed the trails, but at least they have been together since the summer of 2023, when they were represented on a boat trip in Greece.
Reading, director of the Fortress Capital Partners asset management firm, has seen its personal celebrity shoot at that time, expanding 10,000 Instagram followers to more than 60,000.
According The RepublicThey moved to a house for Lake Patria, a coastal lake near the suburb of Giugliano.
There, McTominay can quickly be by the sea after leaving his door and is only 20 minutes away from the Napoli training center.
Reading has taken full advantage of the beautiful cities and views of the field of Italy, enjoying trips to Florence, Capri and Positano, a steep local fashion capital next to the sea where the Rolling Stones once wrote their song 'Midnight Rambler'. She and McTominay have also dinner in the shadow of the Great Cathedral of Milan.
One would think it was a great decision to leave United behind, after having been with the club since 2002. In its last season, McTominay expanded his reputation. It was no longer a reliable unconditional, but something like a talisman.
In the end, however, he did not lose much dream for the call. He said: 'The pride of playing here is really special and when I discovered that Napoli was interested in me, I felt the fire inside me.
'I wanted to come here and push as much as possible because fans are crazy, I would say they are some of the best fans I've seen. Incredible.
When you can, Reading has been making trips to Italian tourist destinations such as Florence
McTominay says that fans are 'some of the best' he has seen and not regret
The former Manchester United teammate, Romelu Lukaku, has also helped McTominay to settle in
It is reported that McTominay was excited to see Maradona's statue in Naples
“I can't talk enough about fans, people, the city and the welcome that my teammates and coaches gave me.”
He also told BBC Scotland: 'It was a great decision, but it was somehow quite simple.
'I saw the passionate fans, I saw the coach, I saw the players and I saw an opportunity.
I took it. I didn't look back. I did not take the decision for a long time because I knew that was what I wanted and I will never regret my life.
I love this place. I love fans, I love my teammates. It has been a pleasure to be with Billy every day instead of just seeing him in Scotland and we have helped ourselves a lot.
'He was friendly. I love that soccer club (united) to bits, they have been my life for 22 years, but now I have moved on. I am enjoying myself here.
It seems to be a game made in the stars. McTominay kissed the badge after scoring his first goal against how in September and since then.
In fact, the other day that has more league goals this season emerged than Rasmus Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee combined. It is not bad for an expense of £ 25.7 million, considering that Hojlund and Zirkzee cost United £ 108.5 combined.
Of course, the movement has required him to adapt. A few weeks after their movement, the reports in Italy said that McTominay had been put “at risk” for his diet and that it would be a note every day that indicates what he can and cannot eat at home.
Conte is a defender of the 'Bresaola diet', which means that fried foods, mozzarella and alcohol are firmly out of the menu, while a Mediterranean menu of vegetables and white meat rich in protein, such as turkey and Chicken, they are on the table.
It has worked in the past for Lukaku and seems to have worked a gift for McTominay, even if you can't put the Neapolitan pizza, fans have exalted it.