This is the case of the 2024 transfer market even if it has not exploded yet. Victor Osimhen and Napoli are prisoners of each other, both waiting for an offer that has not yet materialized and is not even visible on the horizon. The contract renewal signed during the winter, the viaticum of a transfer that had been consensually considered the way out, is becoming a golden prison that slows down the future of both the player and the club.
The summary is that so far no one has come forward from Osimhen or Napoli expressing the desire to pay the 130 million euro clause. De Laurentiis would also be willing to make a small discount and accommodate any needs in terms of payment, but the point is that to date the Nigerian striker has no suitors. The problem is that he is very unlikely to be the center forward of Antonio Conte’s Napoli who, instead, quickly needs to build his team around a new number nine.
Even De Laurentiis, when he granted Osimhen the double-digit salary increase, had in mind an immediate transfer this summer also to avoid further problems of balance in a dressing room that last year suffered badly from some failed negotiations for contractual adjustments . In short, Napoli cannot afford to retain Osimhen for a thousand reasons who, from his point of view, can’t wait to be able to land in the Premier League.
The fact is that Chelsea and Arsenal seem to be focused on different objectives for the attack and Manchester United is a work in progress that does not have the Nigerian’s name at the top of the list. In Paris, another possible solution, they don’t seem to be in a hurry to deliver an offer to Naples and so the Arab sirens who Osimhen legitimately said no to a year ago remain in the background.
The most likely scenario is that the player will have to report to training camp and start the season with Napoli. Not the best either for him or for Antonio Conte, also because Osimhen has clearly made it clear that he considers his period in Serie A over.
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