Victor Osimhen Playing In The Serie A Once Again Remains A Strong Possibility

Written By Onyeka Daniel

There was a recent report that reigning Serie A champions, Napoli will almost certainly call Victor Osimhen to the club for their pre-season training camp starting by the second week of July, but his future at the club has never been in doubt.

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After falling out with the club president, Aurelio De Laurentiis, he is almost certain to be on the way out and with a €75m release clause, there is only a handful of clubs that can afford to sign him when we also factor in his huge salary demands.

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For the Nigerian striker, the idea is to remain in Europe as he has already rejected multiple offers from Saudi Arabia with the promise of a huge salary not even enough to tempt him and it is now looking like he might be back in the Serie A for the upcoming season.

Even though his release clause is only valid for clubs outside the Italy, Juventus have not given up on signing him either. This is according to a report from Sky Sport Italia that further went on to report that the Old Lady have already contacted Osimhen’s entourage in the last 48 hours to intensify talks.

It Is no secret that the Bianconeri had the Nigerian on their wish-list for the attack next season, along with free agent Jonathan David and those negotiations have intensified over the weekend, according to the source. Any move would be extremely difficult, as the exit clause is only valid for clubs outside of Italy.

It was done specifically because Napoli are wary of Juve poaching their stars after spending €100m for Gonzalo Higuain a few years back. If they were to sell to a direct Scudetto rival, then Napoli would ask for at least €80m that is if they exhaust all other options to sell him off.

However, Osimhen is returning to pre-season training from his Galatasaray loan and seems to be quite low on the list of priorities for other clubs, such as Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester United .Al-Hilal had been prepared to pay the full €75m fee and give him an eye-watering salary of around €30m per season.

Instead, he turned it down. For Juve, they will still need to sort out the future of Dusan Vlahovic before they can make any move to strengthen their attack, which is proving to be more difficult than initially thought. They’re also facing difficulties in their quest to bring in David as a free agent.

In a related development, Sam Beukema remains determined to do everything he can to join Napoli and that means pressuring Bologna to lower their asking price to €30m plus add-ons. The defender has made It perfectly clear he considers this a huge opportunity that he does not want to let slip through his fingers.

The problem remains that Bologna have set a very high asking price on his head, but they are coming under pressure from all sides now. As expected after the player’s father met with Napoli last week, the pressing is intensifying with Beukema asking for this dream to be allowed to come true.

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The Serie A champions have set aside a figure of around €30m plus add-ons, which they believe would be a fair price for the 26-year-old. The two clubs are also meeting regularly to discuss another player, Dan Ndoye, who is in a similar situation when it comes to his asking price.

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