According to the Campania edition of the Corriere della Sera, Gattuso's Lazio made an approach for Lorenzo Lucca in the summer, but Napoli turned down the dry loan proposal. The club did not want to devalue the €35 million investment made in 2025, and De Laurentiis confirmed Lucca would stay as Hojlund's backup. The situation could potentially be revisited in January, and his contract with Napoli runs until June 2030.