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Former Manchester United man McTominay has excelled in his first season in Italy.

Fittingly, McTominay scored the opening goal as Napoli beat Cagliari 2-0 to edge out Inter Milan in a title race that ran down to the wire.

McTominay ended his season with 16 league goal involvements – 12 goals and four assists. Only one midfielder has been involved in as many goals in his first season in the Italian top-flight in the past 20 editions of the tournament: Hernanes in 2010-2011, with 16.

The 28-year-old scooped the prize of Serie A's MVP, and said: "The sacrifice of every single player in this group is just incredible. The people deserve it, as they’ve been behind us from day one. For me to come here and experience this, it’s just a dream.

"My Italian is OK, I can understand, but speaking it takes more confidence and it’s not easy.

"It is much easier to do it with people who don’t speak any English. I can feel a lot of love."

Napoli scored 59 goals in Serie A this term, setting a new record for the fewest goals scored by a title-winning team.

Antonio Conte, meanwhile, became the second coach to win the Scudetto in his debut season as Napoli coach after Alberto Bigon in 1989-1990.

Conte has won his fifth Scudetto as a coach in Serie A, after the three with Juventus between 2011-2012 and 2013-2014 and the title with Inter in 2020-2021.

"It happened again, and it’s something wonderful,"  he said.

"When we got to the stadium, it was honestly difficult to get in, as I don’t know how many people were there. I had a slight thought, if we let these people down, it’d be something we carried with us for a long time.

"All the credit goes to the boys. Winning in Naples is difficult, these boys are doing it for the second time in two years.

"They are serious boys, you don't leave in a team that always plays to win."