Re: ⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions

This summer their president said it wants 400 mil for Osimhen.

I doubt he will leave for less than 150.

Really it's a fantastic figure that the club wants, but recently Osimhen has agreed to a new contract that will soon be completed at the beginning of 2024 in addition to Victor Osimhen will experience a fairly high salary increase, even the media said he had the highest salary in the history of the Napoli club.

This means Chelsea will not have the opportunity to buy Osimhen if he extends his contract until 2026, the clause value is €130M according to sky sport but it could be even higher.
https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1735025642649903502

It seems that Napoli are locking Osimhen up to prevent him from leaving for another club.

150 million, the number is too high. Napoli offering this price means they don't want to sell Osimhen. No club will spend that much money to recruit this striker. Really, only the rich French guy PSG can spend that amount of money to get Osimhen. With the current situation where Mbappé will leave, they can make some money from selling him to recruit Osimhen. Osimhen will be the perfect replacement for their central striker.

I can understand why they wanted that much money for Osimhen. When they saw that the Saudi Professional League paid these absurd prices for players, it meant that there were obviously teams with a lot of money. If you take PSG and what they got for Neymar, they could easily afford 150 million for a player like Osimhen. I think that was the plan Napoli had. The same became a rumor when there was an offer of 172 million euros for Salah and some people thought that this could enable Liverpool to pay the transfer fee for a player like Mbappe. The prices are irrational, out of control and Napoli thought they could benefit from it if they decide to sell Osimhen. But it would be circular reasoning as afterwards every club knows that Napoli now has the money.