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Victor Osimhen | out of options | goes to Gala on loan
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Liked how decisive and ruthless Napoli were with him, we could learn a thing or two from that. No messing about, we ain't registering you and we are taking off your shirt number to give to another. We are too nice with wage thieves taking the piss just staying here for the contract.
Given the situation, if he were available in January, what do we think his value would be now? Could we potentially look at getting him then for a much lower fee than was being quoted previously? 50-60mil ballpark?
Napoli could do that because they had clubs happy to take him... What would be the point of doing this with players no one else wants?
I would be up in arms if my club destroyed about 70m in value.
Another interpretation is that they have shot themselves in the foot given they could probably have sold him for 80m last yead
Last year they'd just won the league and had big ambitions both in the league and in the UCL. They gave him a big salary increase to keep him. That was a bold and ambitious move.
Keeping Osimhen didn't shoot any feet... Picking wrong coaches did.
Out of the current situation, they managed to offload his expensive salary while keeping his value thanks to the contract extension, which may have only just pushed the problem down the road. Time will tell.
This time last year it would have cost over 200m for Osimhen and Ferguson (Brighton)
12 months later one has barely played and the other has joined a Turkish team on loan. Madness.
12 months later one has barely played and the other has joined a Turkish team on loan. Madness.
Wow. Really wish we loaned him. Turkey?????
I reckon he will set the Turkish league on fire and hope a bigger team comes for him in January
could certainly be a candidate to get something lined up for next summer. Especially if he does well there. As somebody said above, will surely cost a whole lot less than what was asked last year
I get that demanding 150m backfired, but couldn’t they have just played him? He cost Napoli something like 80m, and he’s not stinking the place out. Save yourself 30m on that donkey Lukaku, kiss and make up with Osimhen and reassess next summer.
Wondering why we didn’t just loan him now.
Wondering why we didn’t just loan him now.
I don't think we could have loaned him. Seems Napoli were clinging on to the idea of a full sale (or loan + obligation) until the transfer window for the big leagues was shut.
Gala are only getting this deal because they're the last game in town.
Quality control
You'd have kept Greenwood then? (100mil in sale value)
It wasn't the club that did that
Ah ok, so their transfer window is still open?
Yeah, I think theirs is open the latest of all the (relatively) high profile leagues. Closes mid-September.
Until Sept.13 yes.
What a completely inappropriate and distasteful comparison.
Quality control
Oh do behave yourself, there's no need for a faux moral indignation overreaction instead of just answering the question.
It's a dumb comparison.
Your lack of morals doesn't render anyone else's "faux". Some people actually do have moral convictions they stand by.
Stay on topic please folks.
Insulting another member
Feck off you idiot
The Turkish clubs are up to something. Lots of high profile acquisitions in recent times. Did the economic situation in Turkey improve or is there something else going on?
Also yeah nuts that Chelsea seemingly presented about 20 different options for Osimhen and they said no for every single one and yet they choose to loan him to Turkey? Something's off.
Also yeah nuts that Chelsea seemingly presented about 20 different options for Osimhen and they said no for every single one and yet they choose to loan him to Turkey? Something's off.
Apparently the issue with some of Chelsea proposals were personal terms with the player. Up late club side the Saudi offer was apparently better.
Chelsea had a couple of clunky deals this summer, you'd have expected they'd wrap this one in the wake of agreeing on Lukaku. It added to the fumble SSCN and the player's agent cooked together.
??? They scuppered the saidi deal by demanding 75M instead of 70?? The only other real offer they got was last year, for 150, and they very much did not reject that
Apparently the relationship had broken down to a point this was never an option....why is anyone's guess. Lots of people blaming his agent for turning his head and convincing him PSG would come for him, but then those people tend to be peddling pro-Napoli message, so...
They got a 150m offer for Osimhen?!? From who?
Can we try to Weghorst this and bring him in on loan in January?
Saudi Arabia of course
So let me get this right, he turned down multiple proposals from Chelsea because the money on offer wasn’t as good as the Saudi money, only to not even go to Saudi and end up on loan at Gala in the Turkish league?
What a monumentally incredible way to torpedo your own career. And all for a guy that was being linked with £100 million moves to all of Europe’s elite within the last 12 months.
What a monumentally incredible way to torpedo your own career. And all for a guy that was being linked with £100 million moves to all of Europe’s elite within the last 12 months.
He did not request Saudi’s money from Chelsea. He wanted Chelsea to at least match his current salary at Napoli which is €220k/week. Chelsea maximum salary offer on the final day was €155k/week. If he was just about the money he would have gone to Saudi.
Agent has been, unsurprisingly, relieved of his duties as an employed person.
That is not true. The amount we offered, anyway. Now, very possible if he wanted an obligation (with no stipulations) on the loan to purchase that the “base” portion of the salary offered was 150 ish. We released a brief that we offered him 7 different package scenarios in total. Two weeks before deadline day we heard how his agent, Callenda, considered the higher guaranteed yearly offer (less incentive based) a non starter because the obligation to buy was conditional on qualifying for CL. Their team wanted assurances they were leaving Napoli no matter what.
Anyway, all Chelsea players are on incentive based contracts. Most of the incentives are not difficult to reach. It’s not like you have to reach the Balon D’or to get the last 30% of your contract. And yes, there stipulations for alternative extra compensation if a player is injured.
I think the explanation of Di Marzio’s numbers being “net” (which Osimhen agent was obsessed with) is most likely. Our most reputable journos assured that the offers on the table would have made Osimhen the highest earner at the club. For comparison, Enzo makes 180k per week BEFORE bonuses. What Di Marzio reported would have come to a gross of ~325/wk with all bonuses hit. Which is the right area to have been ONE of the offered structures.
Again, I think there being stipulations on the obligation to buy at the end of the loan was a bigger sticking point than the monetary amount itself.
Osimhen wasnt solely obsessed with money. He didn’t particularly want to go to Saudi and understood it would be a blow to his footballing legacy. Now he’s had to endure the marketability hit and humiliation of having to play on loan in Turkey. And he has rightfully fired his agent.
Its quite funny that for all these years we used to complain about not getting our business done early. Yet if we had waited there was a chance to get him or Toney for a similar fee to what we paid Zirkzee. This club is cursed
So maybe the club didn't want either of those two, I mean look where they have ended up...
What you're implying is truly absurd.
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