Victor Osimhen: Pros and Cons
Victor Osimhen, my fellow countryman, has been arguably the biggest talking point of the transfer window so far, from looking set to make a PSG move to talks of a big money Saudi transfer, and more recently a potential swap deal involving Romelu Lukaku to Chelsea, all during this window,
He would be forgiven if he wants everything to die down a bit. Tensions with current club Napoli has seen him not even be involved in a single preseason game so far, due to this strained relationship. A transfer away will only be done sooner rather than later. With that said and with Chelsea seemingly pulling out of the race for his signature, it has opened the door for a number of clubs to strike a deal with Napoli and get him in. Among the number of clubs interested are said to be Arsenal.
With it being suggested that Arsenal will be signing at least one more Forward before the end of the window coupled with the fact that we can actually have a free go at signing him, this might actually be a likely transfer which could be our Marquee signing of the summer. So with that out of the way here are the pros and cons of signing Victor Osimhen !
PROS
- Powerful runner in behind: His pace and running power will give us a central threat in behind better than any of the current striking options already at the club. One thing I adore about him is how aggressively he attacks spaces in behind, couple that with Ørdegaard’s through balls and we could be in dream land. Another variation to his runs in behind are those channel runs he makes off the blindspot of the last defender, that could prove very useful against teams who set up in a high line, they could get absolutely exposed. Havertz also has a knack of making those well timed runs in behind but lacks the pace and conviction to be clinical in those situations.
- Elite Mentality: perhaps one of my favorite among his many qualities is his never say die attitude and commitment he gives to the course, under any given circumstance he has always shown the Willingness to give a hundred and ten percent to the badge. This has been the case for Lille, Napoli and the Nigerian national team. This trait would help Mikel Arteta further create his own group of mentality monsters.
Further pros to this transfer are his Age, Aerial prowess and SCA (shot creating actions).
Cons
- Passing/ball carrying: This is an area he certainly needs to refine in his overall gameplay due to the somewhat rash decision making he sometimes makes with his choice of pass. His passing stats via FB ref are nothing to write home about therefore any potential transfer must be given optimum considerations by Mikel and Edu respectively. Also with that same line of thought tidy passing is not what we are potentially going to judge a striker on but given the way we are currently set up to play it makes it a very important asset for any potential center forward we sign to have.
- Disciplinary Issues: as mentioned above on how passionate he plays for the badge, this often leads to tempers boiling over when provoked, this might prove a major or minor stumbling block to Mikel Arteta but it is also important to note that he has got the very best out of short tempered players before and could be an easy man management fix for him to execute.
Other cons are his recent Injury record and ball carrying ability.
These are my views so I’m curious to hear what you have to say. What are your thoughts on a potential transfer for the prolific Osimhen?
Benjamin
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I think the pros are outweighed by the cons, and he is not a player I would recruit.Every time I have watched him, I am left wandering what all the fuss is about.
Cox his an African and not English like Ivan TONNEY, WAPKINS, KEANE, JOHNSON, SAKA and co that can not even win a league title for their teams but Oshimen has broken a record set last by a legend in maradona …that’s the FUSS ok..If he was English or from one of the European countries I bet 100million pounds will look like underpayment for him cox I have seen the contributions the likes Ivan TONNEY, WAPKINs, Isak, solanake and even the great harry Kane who can win anything for an elite club like Bayern, has won by carrying their clubs on their back…but let me add one more Pros…HIS THE AFRICAN BEST PLAYER WHERE U ALSO HAVE SALAH, MANE, KUDUS, HAIKIMI AND OTHERS OK…SO SHOW HIM HIS DUE RESPECT OK
Agreed Grandad. I feel it would be quite reminiscent of Nicolas Pepe. Just not good enough technically to play our system. Numbers where good last season when Napoli where flying but other than that hasn’t hit 20 league goals in a season. The Italian league is also poor. Player like Scammaca looked fantastic in Italy and then came to England and flopped.
Agree. Also, I don’t believe we’ve ever been in for him and his situation has always been screaming for PSG.
Nicolas Pepe – always the spectre at Arsenal’s feast. Still the biggest financial disaster the club has had (although a nice enough guy).
He just signed a two year contract with the yellow submarine. Good for Nicolas.
Yes, I read that. Good news for him indeed. It’s just a little unfortunate that they didn’t choose to buy him from us earlier (£72m would have been ideal) but you can’t have everything – or, indeed, anything – in this particular case.
So Saka was high flying for us or one of the reasons we lost the league twice..WHY DIDNT ARSENAL BID FOR MBPAPE AND PAY THE RIDICULES FEE… OSHIMEN IS NO SCAMACA WHO HAD WON NOTHING OR HULUND OK…FROM THE ARTICLE U CAN CLEARLY SEE HE HAS WON A LEAGUE AND HAS A WINNING MENTALITY WHICH OUR PLAYERS LACK AT THE END..SO ADDING A WINNER GOES TO IMPROVE THE TEAM..HAVE U NOT NOTICED THAT SINCE OSHIMEN WAS NOT REGULAR AT NAPOLI AND TREATED UNFAIRLY BY THE MANAGEMENT WITH THAT DISRESPECT POST, THEY HAVE BEEN GOING DOWN DOWN..ITS COX THEY BETRAYED OSHIMEN FOR GIVING THEM THE LEAGUE…AND FOR AN ADDITONAL PROS..OSHIMEN IS NOT SELFISH OK..HE PASSES THE BALL FOR OTHERS TO SCORE…CHECK HIS HISTORY COX HIS NOT ALSO KNOWN FOR BEING TEMPERAMENTAL ALSO JUST THE NAPOLI AND THE SUPER EAGLES COACH ISSUES WAS WHAT MADE HIM ANGRY BECAUSE HE WAS BETRAYED BY BOTH AND HIS HUMAN AFTER ALL OK…IF MBPAPE OR CR7 OR IVAN TONNEY HAS ATTITUDE ISSUES THEY CAN BE OVER LOOKED BUT NOT FOR OSHIMEN RIGHT? AS IF U HAVE FORGOTTEN SO SOON WHAT XHAKA DID
I think you have issues and should maybe take your anger elsewhere
Am not angry..am stating the facts..why will someone talk down on the reputation of a player who has won the impossible for his club for decades and someone is saying what’s the FUSS or comparing him to sacamaca..Does the comparisons make any sense to you…Every player has a down moment especially when his playing with emotions.. Some Arsenal fans are just too sentimental towards other players when our own players can’t even boast of winning a league and someone is berating the italian league..does that makes sense to you..and u are saying I have anger issues….from all what have said was I wrong?.. Arteta paid 65m for Kai harvestz we hardly know if his a midfielder or Cf, which we all know his not that good at all in these positions and he came from a team that he couldn’t even perform and sold easily to us and in addition, nobody wanted him and to be honest he has done well for himself ever since he came here but we all know his not that good to give us the EPL..FACTS… if kai harvestz was bought for that amount for playing nothing exceptional for Chelsea other than a champions league goal, why should someone be saying Oshimen who went to the AFCON plus injures, was still able to amass 15 goals is a fuzz..HIS THE AFRICAN BEST PLAYER…And who says paying 80 or 85M for him is a fuss…Coz some arsenal fans don’t see the BIG picture even if u show them on a billboard, they won’t see greatness ahead of their noises but criticize and criticize till the manger loses ALL THE CUPS and guess whar, these are the set of fans who will not still criticize this manager for failing and holding him accountable especially edu…SO AM ANGRY TO WIN THE EPL AND I KNOW OSHIMEN ADDED TO THE TEAM WILL GIVE THAT TO US OR U WANT TO KEEP SEEING US CROSSING THE BALL TO A SHORTER G.JESUS, SAKA, MARTENELLI, TOSSARD OR A KAI HARVERTZ THAT GOES TO THE EDGES LOOKING A CROSS, HIS NOT EVEN GOOD AERIALLY …SO THE FACTS ARE CLEAR…FOOTBALL SOMETIMES IN DESPERATE CONDITIONS WHEN WE ARE LOSING NEEDS A PLAYER LIKE OSHIMEN TO JUST HEAD IN THE BALL FROM CROSSES FROM OUR WINGERS ESPECIALLY IN DESPERATE TIMES OF A GOAL OR TWO TO WIN A HARD MATCH AND NOT SOME FANCY FOOTBALL THAT WILL DEFINITELY NOT WORK FOR US IN ALL THE MATCHES AND WHEN THE DEFENDERS CANT EVEN SCORE FOR US…SO WE NEED OSHIMEN AND THATS THE FACT
It seems that despite the pros and cons he won’t be arriving at The Emirates because of money.
Apparently, he wants a pretty substantial increase over his already large salary at Napoli (which also has tax advantages unavailable here) and that would almost certainly destroy Arsenal’s wage structure and cause consternation in the ranks.
I would be surprised if we sign a striker in the mould of Osimhen or Gyorkes. Firstly, I don’t think we have the budget, second of all, what would happen to Havertz and finally we would have seen some more persistent rumours like we do with Merino.
Where does lack of budget come from? We came 2nd in the league which generated good revenue, have Champions League money and are making player sales. We haven’t gone crazy spending this summer, so why can we suddnely not afford a big signing? We seem to be using the stadium debt and being poor mentality.
No one has mentioned stadium debt here, or anywhere else around Arsenal for years so not sure why you bring that up. But, Arsenal aren’t Chelsea and aren’t going to be a club that spends 150-200 million every summer. It just isn’t how the club is run. The last two summers have seen large sums spent. A quieter one this year was always on the cards (and it’ll still be a 100 million summer if you include Raya and Merino also signs, so hardly that cheap!).
We are one of the largest clubs and generated a lot of revenue along with player sales now coming in. Where do you get 200m-300m from? Has anyone mentioned spending that much? Stadium debt was brought up to show that fans like yourself have that mentality that we are poor.
Arsenal do not have stadium debt anymore
the clue to lack of budget was having to take Raya on a contrived loan with option to buy, probably more FFP/PSR constraints rather than cashflow, but nonetheless Raya deal showed Arsenal at spend limited last summer and £100m committed this summer (assuming Merino arrives)
Tha’ts a fair point but we are selling quite a bit this summer too so our net spend will not be very high. Getting a proven goalscorer at 60-70m may be possible. I suppose no one apart from the Arsenal hierachy know for sure.
FFP/PSR as I understand it. We are operating on the limit and unless we manage to sell for at least 75 million, we won’t have the 80 million or so room to buy a Guyorkes.
Arsenal bought Pepe for 75 million and Rice for 105 millions. For the past four years, how much did Arsenal spend compared to other clubs. These ffp is it only focusing on arsenal
Better then what we have
Won’t win title without a proven goal scorer
Whatever reason it was for losing out on the title last year; lack of goals wasn’t it. Not sure why people keep going on about the ‘proven goalscorer’ stuff. Scoring goals isn’t a problem in this team.
welcome to JA Scrubs, new striker one track broken record
I think it was
Too many games in the season where we didn’t look like scoring
It’s fine margins at this level and we don’t have a clinical striker.
with the sales of Nketiah coming up and Nelson still open to leaving i wonder if Arsenal wont still sign a striker because havertz is playing that position. we cant win the league without a proven proper 9, look at man city they had Alvarez and Haaland when haaland got injured Alvarez filled in well for him, we cant rely on havertz alone or else we will see experiment of martinelli and Trossard playing false 9, Sorry i didnt mention Gabriel Jesus because i dont see him as a proper striker.
If a tall, strong technical striker is on the market, he’d be our target. Two things make me think this. One, we went in for Sesko pretty early. Two, Edu seems to be filling our team with that player profile. And it’s probably why we’re sticking with Hazard
Havertz of course
I think osimhen has all d quality u can think for player in this world as a proper Stricker pace, area due, fast, eye for goal, quick , and speed he has proven it time without number, everybody knows to score goals in Italian league is difficult single handedly he took Napoli to win league last two seasons for over 33yrs last season he scored 17,as a Stricker who travelled for African Nations cup,with some injuries still he was able to score 17 goals, victor osimhen is actually the Stricker we need right now the management should bring out this and sign him and we win the league as simple as it,etc,if arsenal go for cheap guys we will still not win the league is the truth.
if its so hard to score in Italy how come Lukaku is an absolute monster in that league and awful in ours?
Regardless of the cons, can I ask all gunners fans sincerelythis question? Based on stats do we have any present CF in our teams more prolific than Osimehin? No No9 has it all there are always aspect of their games to improve when they come to a new league under a new coach.
It took Odegard a whole season to understand how Arteta wants to play, even Havertz took a few weeks to satrt performing despite coming from Epl club. Osimehin would be a threat in the box for any Epl defender.
Some of us “oldies” judge players on what we see not what we read.I would only use stats to check on the injury record of a player.In the case of Osimehin he has simply not performed in the 5 matches I have seen him play.
Yes, we do. in the tail end of last season, Havertz was 3rd highest goal scorer after Halaand and Isak. He also had the highest goal contribution after Palmer. We should build on that rather than look for players who have yet to be tested in the premier league. It’s back in the days when it’s said that it’s more difficult to score a goal in Italy than in England because of their defensive solidity; the reverse is the case now, as all the best defenders are in the English top flight. Kai is finding his rhythm, and Mikel shouldn’t upset that. He is a goal and Assist machine and fits perfectly into the Arsenal style of play (which is the most important factor). He’s got a full season with the team, and its time to consolidate and not reinvent the wheel.
He isn’t a goal machine though is he though?
And yes , Osimehin ( same age ) is more prolific
But is he really that she or is he lying I just don’t trust him same as partley I think he’s older
Party I meant
He is lying I hate spell check
According to the latest report (just posted on this site as well), Arsenal have ended their interest in Osimhen.
While no reason is given there were earlier reports (referenced in my post here this morning) that his wage demands were a factor.
The hunt continues – and the clock keeps ticking.
Sign him or Toney and get rid of Nketiah