VICTOR OSIMHEN’S (25)
Time At Napoli Is Coming To An End, With Owner Aurelio De Laurentiis Ready To
Accept Offers For His Wantaway Striker.
After Ending A 33-Year
Wait For A Scudetto, De Laurentiis Was Ready To Gamble Last Summer, As He Tried
To Keep Hold Of As Much Of His Title-Winning Team As Possible. It Was A Risk
That Never Quite Worked.
Luciano Spaletti, The
Architect Behind Their First League Title Since Diego Maradona Was Gone. The Manager
Had Left After A Disagreement With The Owner, While In Defence Bayern Munich Had
Met Kim Min-Jae’s (27) Release Clause.
Gaps Were Beginning To
Form, But De Laurentiis Held On Tight To Osimhen. He Rejected A €130 Million
Offer From Saudi Arabia For Osimhen And Fended Off Significant Interest From Paris
Saint-Germain.
However, After A Poor
Season That Has Been Wracked With Injuries And Simmering Tension, De Laurentiis
Is Now Ready To Cash In On The Striker. And May Reluctantly Accept An Offer
Below Osimhen’s €120 Million Release Clause, Although He Still Holds Out Hope.
The Writing Had Been On
The Wall That This Would Be The Last Season For Osimhen, With De Laurentiis Even
Telling The Media That He Had Been Preparing For The Striker To Leave Since
Last Summer. “That’s Why The Contract Negotiations Were So Drawn Out And
Amicable… But We Knew Perfectly Well That He Would Go Real Madrid, To PSG Or To
An English Team.”
It’s Unlikely That Real
Madrid Will Move For Osimhen When They Look Set On Finally Securing Kylian
Mbappé