Victor Osimhen was the surprise move of the summer in many ways as he ended up at Galatasaray after a long ordeal, but his future beyond this season remains a mystery.
As Calciomercato.com recall, Osimhen’s dream of a move to the Premier League never came to fruition and in the end a player with a market value of over €100m and a salary of €12m net per season ended up in the Turkish capital.
He has six goals in as many league games for Galatasaray, two in the Europa League and more importantly a rediscovered confidence. However, he is on a dry loan and that pushes the issue of his permanent future down the line to next summer.
Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis wants at least the same amount paid to sign him from Lille, which is €75m, also his release clause after renewing with the Partenopei until 2027. It is a figure clearly not within the reach of Galatasaray.
If Osimhen were to continue to maintain his scoring average of one goal per game from now until early January – not to mention the end of the season – it is in the natural order of things that more than one club would come knocking on Napoli’s door.
A half a rich Premier League club like Arsenal, Chelsea or Manchester United could make an attempt as early as January, but although the lure of English football and the idea of returning to a more competitive league are tempting prospects for the Nigerian, a winter deal does seem difficult.
Could he end up back in Serie A? Discarding a priori the hypothesis of a return to Napoli, Osimhen has been linked with Milan and Juventus. When asked about a Rossoneri attempt to get him on loan at the end of the transfer window, Zlatan Ibrahimovic gave a smile and nothing more.
Milan are a club that have long been very economically stringent and that is why making a huge investment seems almost impossible at the moment. Juve meanwhile cannot afford such a big fee either, even with the sale of Dusan Vlahovic.
One of the best strikers in the world for 70m is a good opportunity.
Obviously the owner won’t do it. Considering this is the player who would take us to the next level.
I just don’t want to hear about how ambitious our owner is and how we want to win.
Sign Osimehn and we believe you. Don’t and you’re proven to be the fraudster you are
75M transfer free and 12M net per season would make Osimhen one of the biggest transfer operations in all of football. Nobody in Serie A can afford this. Even PL clubs weren’t lining up last summer. What does this have to do with ambition? We’re not going to wreck club finances for one player. Juventus did that with Ronaldo and it nearly did them in. Stupid statement.
I’d sooner spend 70m on Scalvini and Ricci, we went for Morata, Camarda will suffer if we sign Osimhen. The best striker move for us would be Jonathan David but that was the case 2 summers ago and we didn’t.
Osimhen is world class but it doesn’t make sense
Scalvini hhh no thanks
Why would he suffer? Kid is 16
16!
In some alternative universe, sure, a teenager would lead Milans atk. In this here universe he will get bits and pieces in the first team nor the next 4 years and then a loan.
Osi makes all the sense in the world. But we won’t cash out unfortunately. For us cashing out is giving Morata 5.5M net a year on a 4 year contract.
And at 16 he’s already making an impression, he scored a great header in the UCL. This kid should be ready to go in the next couple of years, bringing in Osimhen will only put him down the pecking order. If Camarda is the once in a generational talent we hope he is (Rooney, Owen, R9) he should be starting at 18 ish or even sooner. If you’re good enough you’re old enough
Personally I’d send Abraham back in the summer, bring in David on a free and spend the money where it’s needed. Players like Bellanova, Scalvini, Ricci…feel free to insert realistic names.
I can see Osimhen at Arsenal, he’s the natural final piece in the jigsaw for them
For some reason bringing osi would put camrda down the pecking line but david on free wouldn’t have the same effect?
Well probably not because he’d flop anyway while osi would bomb goals.
Tho it would definitely be better to get two 35M cbs than one 70M ST. We need upgrades there more.
Yeah you got it, David is an interim solution for me, he’s very good, but once Camarda hits the ground running you can sell him on, or rotate difficult to do that with a world class talent like Osimhen
We don’t need more CB’S, heck we didn’t need Pavlovic had we kept Kalulu.
The Redbirds were chirping about us signing Morata as a way to keep the path clear for Camarda, that was just classic Trump’esque nonsense.
The kid is 16, he needs years yet before he will lead the attack and even then he will need an alternative.
I like the idea of Ricci
Yup
No we don’t need quantity we need quality. Other than Gabbia all our CBs have mistakes in them
If we’re going all out on a striker than I would try for Vlahovic personally, or the swedish dude from lisbon.
But a striker pairing of osihmen and leao is almost too good to imagine. It’s just that there are slightly better candidates for the single striker role
Vlahovic is an overrated and over paid log
We’re NOT getting a player valued at 75 million. What’s the point of this kind of article??? Empty, useless speculation.
Osimhen &/ Tonali is too big ac jeri (they r 20m++)
Nice if he came, but he won’t. And putting the ball in the back of the net isn’t our biggest problem. It’s keeping it out of our own net.
Absolutely