Conte is one hell of a good coach and from what I believe is that if Antonio Conte wanted to work with both Lukaku and Osimhen it would have been possible but he only desire to work with Lukaku and not Osimhen, both strikers are good in different ways, Conte knows what he's doing. With fact that Osimhen wants to leave due to how the atmosphere is for him at Napoli, I think that's his decision to leave. If Conte wants Osimhen to stay he can as well talk to him to stay at least a season or two to help make the team stronger, other coaches are doing it to convince players who wants to leave to stay so this Osimhen's issue is something we all know that the new manager Antonio Conte doesn't want in his team so we don't need to blame either Conte or Osimhen is their choice, the player made the decision before the arrival of Antonio Conte, if I'm not mistaken.
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It's true, Conte could include Osimhen in the Napoli squad. However, the problem is not his ability or playing style that makes Conte not include Osimhen in his squad. However, because Osimhen wants to leave Napoli and no longer wants to play with Napoli. I think the biggest reason Conte didn't include Osimhen in the Napoli squad is because of this. The reason is, Conte will definitely be confused if he forces or persuades Osimhen to return to the Napoli squad. The reason is that Osimhen will definitely not play well even if he returns to play again, because basically Osimhen was hurt by the Napoli team last season. So, here is the crux of the matter.
So for now we don't need to debate about Osimhen. Because, Osimhen will clearly leave Napoli sooner or later. So now we just have to see how Napoli is in Conte's hands. Will it go well or vice versa? If you look at the results of Napoli's latest match, I think Conte can most likely bring Napoli to a better performance. And Lukaku in his first match with Napoli could be said to have had a pretty good performance too. Because Lukaku was able to score 1 goal in that match. So this could be said to be quite a positive thing so far.
I don't think it will happen that Osimhen won't play well if Conte persuade him to come back to the team or make him play for the club, there's a way a coach would address an issue and it will fall to his favor with the player to be even more effective than he used to be. Conte has come across so many players and he has his way of convincing them to take a different turn and Osimhen can as well be among those players but from how I see it Conte doesn't want to work with Osimhen but choose to work with Lukaku.
Between these two players I'd say Osimhen made an account of himself last season than Lukaku so he's better than the Belgium international, is just the choice of the manager to choose who he prefers which is working with Lukaku, I'm waiting to see who scores the highest this season between the two players.
One game one goal no problem, let's hope it continues that way and let him bring that energy when the club needs it. My question is will Napoli miss the Nigeria striker Victor Osimhen?