Napoli on David, Roma on Rafa Silva: the market after Osimhen and Lukaku

Vincenzo D’Angelo and Andrea Pugliese

April 28 – 10.19am – MILAN

The striker’s challenge is off, but Victor Osimhen and Romelu Lukaku remain connected on the same market frequencies. They will leave Naples and Rome, but the future is still a big question mark. Victor has a termination clause that ranges between 120 and 130 million, PSG likes him a lot but dreams of the Premier League and Chelsea, who however will not participate in the next Champions League. Non-trivial detail Osi, who after finishing 8th in the Ballon d’Or rankings and having won the African one is in a hurry to climb the world and aims to win everything. Lukaku will return to London, but only in passing. Chelsea are waiting for the offer for the permanent transfer, but his high salary remains a problem. Napoli and Roma are already looking for the future number 9, with different positions: De Laurentiis has been working on the new center forward for some time, the Friedkins are forced to stall.

here Naples

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Jonathan David remains the first target since last summer, when Osi seemed to be on his way out. The Canadian continued to score and enchant with Lille and now only has one year left on his contract (expires in 2025): the cost, however, does not drop, because there is already an auction. Napoli would accept even without the Champions League, but De Laurentiis will have to convince Lille to lower the request of 50 million. The alternatives remain Gimenez from Feyenoord and Dovbyk from Girona: here too the auction risk is very high, but Napoli will have a treasure of over one hundred million to spend on the market.

here Rome

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In Rome, at the moment, everything is at sea. Without a sporting director and with the budget still to be defined (it will vary based on whether or not they qualify for the next Champions League), little or nothing was said about the transfer market in Trigoria. Especially for the center forward, with the three internal situations to be defined. As of today, Roma’s number 9 for next year is Tammy Abraham, considering that Romelu Lukaku will need 43 million euros (although in Trigoria they hope that Chelsea will accept another one-year loan). Above all, then, if the English center forward shows signs of awakening between now and the end of the season. The situation of Azmoun, on loan from Leverkusen, for whose redemption requires 12.5 million, needs to be assessed. Daniele De Rossi really likes Scamacca, but it is an unapproachable track at the moment. So keep an eye on the free agent market: Benfica’s Rafa Silva (mobile striker and not pure center forward) and Fenerbahçe’s Batshuayi are possible solutions. The Champions League would open up many other scenarios.