Juventus could present new competition to Arsenal in the race to sign Victor Osimhen as the Nigerian prepares to move to a new club in the summer.
Osimhen has been one of the top players in Europe and is on Arsenal’s radar to become their newest number nine.
Most people believe the Gunners will choose between him and Ivan Toney when they are in the market for reinforcements.
Chelsea remains a key rival for Mikel Arteta’s men for both strikers, and they will not make life easy for the Gunners.
However, Osimhen could remain in Serie A, where former Italy striker Alessandro Matri has tipped him to move to Juventus.
He said, as quoted by Football Italia:
“I would not rule out Osimhen going to Juventus.
“If Vlahovic ends this season well, he could be sold for €70m, while Matias Soulé can also bring in a very healthy profit.
“The purchase would not be unsustainable and don’t forget Juve has done this before with Gonzalo Higuain. They saved money this season and if they qualify for the Champions League, they’d have that extra cash to spend.”
Just Arsenal Opinion
Juventus and Napoli share a huge rivalry, and Osimhen will destroy his entire reputation in Naples to move to Juve.
Because of this, our main competitor for his signature remains Chelsea because the Blues can lure him to London.
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So Juventus is tipped to beat Arsenal when Victor apparently choosed Chelsea, according to some vague report the other day. Better not listen to anyone, its all attention seeking guesswork. But Juve probably cant afford him.
Osimhen has not chosen Chelsea. Drogba was his role model, that does not mean he wants to play for Chelsea. Juve cant afford him either. He wants to play in the EPL.
Chelsea wont offer Champions league football next season anyway.
Arsenal should get him.
Osimhen is a complete Striker.
Imagine this line up
Martinelli Osimhen Saka
Trsossard Rice Odegaard
Champions Football is definitely a reason why he wouldn’t go to Chelsea. If it’s money, I bet we can match them in wages. If I deed he wants the EPL:
Chelsea is in disarray and without CL football
United already has Hojlund
City has Halaand
Klopp is leaving Merseyside
Tottenham has never been a competition for us as regards player transfers and we’re definitely a bigger club than them
That leaves Arsenal. We need a striker, can afford the fee and wages and have CL football.
Our only competition will be from Europe and even at that:
Bayern has Kane
Barcelona can’t even afford Nketiah’s left leg
No Italian club can afford him, plus he won’t even think of that
That leaves only Madrid and PSG as our main competition and I’m not sure he will want to return to the French League
What happened to Arsenal scouts. Is Ivan Toney really the only option to Osimhen that Arsenal is giving itself? What happened to the scouts who uncovered the Anelkas, Van Persies, Henrys, and other young talents that took the team to its best heights? Of course we know we are going to miss out on Osimhen deliberately, but there are better, hungrier strikers displaying their talents right now at AFCON.
Has Arteta unearthed any young talent? Any players he has signed for under 30 million don’t seem to make it. Sambi, Nuno, Vieira, Kiwior all look like they could be gone soon.
Tomi is the only one close to the first 11, and with everyone fit, he doesn’t play.
Let’s be honest here, Arteta is not great at sourcing transfers. There has been some serious wastage. Everyone can see the one area we need to invest heavily and we blow the budget elsewhere. He should be selling deadwood and going all out now to get a top striker, the summer is too late.
I don’t think Juve(and by extension, any Serie A club for that matter) can afford Osimhen. Assuming we could stump up the required funds to get him, i believe our main competition for the lad would be our London rivals Chelsea. I would personally hate for that to happen.
Osimhen is a machine. He scores goals every other day, but his game brings much more than just the guaranteed goals. For someone of his stature, his technical ability is quite awesome.
He is a complete striker with an uncanny ability to conjure up a moment of game-changing magic on his own, a tireless hard worker, an absolute bully for defenders & a signing that would instantly take us to another level.
If we were to pull this off in the summer, it would be a massive statement of intent.
Between Osimhen and Toney, I would prefer Osimhen. But the point is, would he like coming to Arsenal and will Arsenal be able to afford him, only time will tell. But we surely do need a striker in the summer along with a defensive midfielder and a left back.