Victor Osimhen has emerged as the preferred number nine for Arsenal to potentially sign this summer, but the transfer is far from straightforward.
The Nigerian striker is anticipated to depart Napoli soon after agreeing to a contract extension that includes a release clause.
Having established himself as one of the top strikers in recent seasons, Arsenal sees Osimhen as a player capable of making a significant impact for them.
While Arsenal has several forwards on their radar, Osimhen has evidently impressed them the most.
However, Napoli insists on the payment of his release clause before his departure, set at €130 million.
The Italian club is confident in Osimhen’s value and is unwavering in their stance on his valuation.
Despite Arsenal’s keen interest in signing him, Calcio Napoli24 reports that they are unwilling to meet the release clause amount for various reasons.
According to the report, Mikel Arteta’s side is not even considering approaching that figure in their offer for Osimhen’s signature.
Just Arsenal Opinion
Osimhen has been one of the best strikers in Europe in the last two seasons, but he is nowhere near his release clause.
If Napoli insists on that fee, then we can focus on signing another striker.
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Osimhen is a great and talented player no doubt. But I’m happy that we are sticking to our tradition of not bowing to extortionate prices of players. If Napoli or any other team thinks their player is this expensive, why not keep him to themselves?
Chelsea, City, ManU, PSG et al are free throw around cash as they please. That’s up to them though it makes football so boring.
Hats off sir.We are not like them
Thanks for this comment, Napoli as are club are too greedy when it comes to sale of player, I will prefer we stick to our traditional way of not over paying when it comes to player’s negotiation.
Sentiment aside, the difference between Arsenal FC losing the league to Man city was due to lack of cutting edge striker in key matches. You don’t use Kai as false nine and win the league with Man city using Haaland. Don’t spend and remain trophy less
I totally disagree with you brother. Its not the fee that qualifies a player to be that good. Most agents and selling club use the urgency of the buying club to extort huge sums even when a player is not that worth. How much did halland join city? That price is too steep. And by the way, how many goals did he score the previous season to warrant such sums?
It’s the quality of other players that makes a a good striker very good.
Halaand is way ahead of Osimhen and City with all the money they have they have they bought him for $51 million!!
And now Arsenal should play Santa Clauz? Rather than buy the jug, we want to win it in a way that proves we have the best managers in the league
Kai is more perfect than the price tag we need to focus on other options,I think your understanding is low especially in projects budget
Osimhen is a good striker but nowhere need that valuation! Someone mentioned Haaland, his release clause was £55 million, I believe pounds? Unfortunately what Man City did additionally we will never know. There are other top strikers available in a buyers market, so Arsenal will have other players lined up. Supporters should realise we were easily the top scorers after City!!
We do know how much they spent on “agents’ fees” though that season. They spent nearly £80m on top of the transfer to incentivise Haaland to come.
Has the interest in Ben sesko disappeared all of a sudden?
For now, let it see-saw, it’s OK
He’s (Sesko) a fair choice but plenty options still remain
The fact that no other club are seriously chasing osimhen despite his obvious quality is representative of the ridiculous price tag on him. Add to that an injury record that is not too favourable and CAN commitments.
There are a lot of strikers mentioned that have really only been consistent for one season only. A quality striker needs to be consistent for at least two seasons and also consistent for his country at international level.
Then there is the players attributes. Is he technical enough to have a high pass completion in the final third of the pitch. Can he easily get tackled and not hold on to the ball. Is he tough enough for the premier League bully boys.
Osimhen gets injured a lot in Italy, a more gentle league than the English premier and his technical attributes are a non fit for Arsenal’s playing style of possession football.
So Osimhen does not fit the profile I just mentioned, which is he is only a one season consistent striker with poor technical skills that gets injured easily.
I would not pay £50 million for him, let alone a laughable £100 million. I think Napoli can’t wait to get rid of him and are hoping some fool comes in without looking at the pros and cons. Now you can understand why Edu has to read through a 180 page dossier on each player, to ensure they have the right attributes to”fit in” to this Arsenal style and system of play.
So next time you see Arsenal linked with an overpriced striker, think of all the attributes I have just mentioned. It is not a case of just scoring goals for an inferior team or league. He may score goals but he may also cost other players not to score because of his poor passing and giving the ball away etc.. so we may end up with less overall team goals from other players. I have only seen one striker in the right age bracket that fits the profile and that’s the German player of the year “Wirtz” of course Mbappe being unavailable.
We need to sell a lot of players before purchasing any as we have an abundance of backup players that do not strengthen the team. We need to buy better than what we have rather than look at backup players, because we already have too many backup players but we need better than are starting Eleven not bench replacements. E.g is Olise, who would give Saka competition for his place, Olise is also two footed and can play anywhere. He would not be a backup, but a starter.
The reason city don’t pay over the odds is because as soon as they put a bid in that the selling club reject, the players push to leave because they know there going to win big trophies.. then city get them cheaper because there player puts a tranfer request in. I’d love to see Arsenal get osimhen for 100ml have you seen how great he is in the air, amazing we would hands down win the league him as our main man and have a good chance cl as well. I’d like us to sell Eddie and Jesus and replace them with 2 new strikers seko and osimhen. Dreaming but that’s how you win things
Not signing phenomenal striker like osimhen would do more harm to arsenal chances than signing him
Is it the money or the player that is more important? See how much arsenal spent on Kai H and Rice. Pls arsenal should spend money on quality players, cos for me VO9 remains the best option upfront.
there is nothing to suggest Osihmen is “the preferred #9 for Arsenal” that I have seen
in fact if you look at Arteta system there is plenty to suggest Osihmen is not a good match, and Arteta does not strike me as someone who is going to change his system to just to accommodate an Osihmen
this rumour going the same way as Ivan Toney!
Osimhen made a huge mistake by penning another contract with Napoli when he knew that he wants to explore other clubs in Europe…look at mbappe case as an example PSG ended up loosing him as a free agent because he refused to sign a new deal knowing fully well that it will disrupt his transfer to Madrid or any other clubs that comes along if PSG decided not to let him go and put a heavy release clause on him