 Consequently, he was excluded from the first-team squad, sidelined from training and asked to leave the club on loan.He has made claims that club medical staff thought he was lying about his symptoms and that he was punched in the face by Napoli’s technical director, Cristiano Giuntoli, as a result of his refusal to leave the club on loan with an untreated injury.Around the time he was finally loaned to Carpi in January 2016, he sought a second medical opinion and was immediately diagnosed with an abdominal hernia.