Rules us out then. No chance we spend over 100m on a striker.
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Wouldn't be so sure. In a world where teams are willing to buy players like Nunez, Antony and Mudryk for fees of up to £85m, £82m and £89m respectively, a £105m+ fee for Osimhen seems quite reachable.
I don’t know if we’re doing that but the way we’re spending, I wouldn’t rule it out. I undersold his value anyway. Napoli will demand no less than 140m for him as their starting point.
Generally teams do that from a position of strength.. well you could always do that, but it's tough to integrate them and grow them properly if not in a position of strength. If your team is constantly in turmoil/changing things, you don't have the opportunity to build properly and take risks like those because there are always more pressing needs. Hopefully different now. A few positions to address but also can start building more. That was presumably the idea in Pellistri and Amad, despite the high price for Amad.
He’s so so so so so good.
Yeah can see it being €140m including addons
It’s amazing that people don’t understand how the FFP works still. Plenty of wiggle room IF we get new owners. That also doesn’t include moving fringe players on; Maguire, McT etc
The way Napoli signed a £30m striker for £80m and he actually turned into an £80m gunman is just mad. That’s exactly what I wanted Havertz’s development arc to look like.
No, plenty of wiggle room if we get CL. The original story was literally we can sign one big player only without CL but could sign two if we qualify.
How this has melted into we are fecked by FFP is beyond me
I agree totally. I also agree that things might start to change or be different now that we have ETH. The cost of purchasing players is rising to unfathomable levels and prices like we're seeing quoted for Osimhen are going to become more of the norm. It's mad. In this case, for the situation that we're in right now and with the way things are, we really do have to go for him, though.
Yeah we won't pay it without ME ownership
He seems just the ticket for us. I doubt FFP will be a problem, more the Napoli owner and Chelsea offering the most.
For Osimhen it would be a step up but he's onto a good thing in Italy, winning the league with a passionate crowd, playing in the CL. Hopefully the player is interested in joining in us and ETH if that is our managers top choice. We should have CL football and Chelsea might not.
For Osimhen it would be a step up but he's onto a good thing in Italy, winning the league with a passionate crowd, playing in the CL. Hopefully the player is interested in joining in us and ETH if that is our managers top choice. We should have CL football and Chelsea might not.
Sublime touch. What a player, really dream signing
This is such an obvious new owner statement signing. Please fecking god let us finally have some luck and sign this player.
My only concern is the cost with him (unless we get rich ownership)
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Any owner that buys us is going to pump money in.
Haha. That's it.
So we are firmly on this train then
Napoli are under investigation for the transfer. Let’s say he might be in the move this summer and I wouldn’t be praising the way he was signed!
I'd take him over spending an enormous amount on Kane for 2-3 seasons. But there may be more Julian Alvarez's about, if our scouting is good enough. Maybe we don't have to spend a 100m on a single player. We certainly will need quite a big summer.
Osimhen over Kane any day of the week. Kane is past his best, Osimhen will enter it soon. He is a beast and undefendable if you give him any sort of service.
Can we give him that service though
To be fair, if he wins Serie A, he’s pretty much will have more winning trophy experienced than Kane. 
I haven’t watch him yet but based on the youtube videos, his ‘’outside the box‘’ game play reminds me of Welbeck. Welbeck has poor finishing ability but this guy has top class finishing ability. Some of the goals he scored are from difficult angle yet he managed to score them the one that I still remember was the goal vs Smalling. I think he can play in PL.
I haven’t watch him yet but based on the youtube videos, his ‘’outside the box‘’ game play reminds me of Welbeck. Welbeck has poor finishing ability but this guy has top class finishing ability. Some of the goals he scored are from difficult angle yet he managed to score them the one that I still remember was the goal vs Smalling. I think he can play in PL.
The dynamism is on another planet compared to Kane. Zero interest in Kane for me.
Will his technique be good enough for Utd,can anyone confirm if that is an issue at all
Is he tall enough?
Still love Kane. Osimhen looking very good this season though.
Serie A is full of false prophets these days but this guy is the real deal
Should be a priority target this summer
Should be a priority target this summer
How many players have Chelsea got at this stage!
I’ll be honest I’ve wanted Kane more than Osimhen but I’ve spent over an hour watching a lot of Osimhen this evening and my opinion has changed, I did think he has a touch of Lukaku about him which is why I was against signing him but Osimhen reminds me of a cross between Eto’o and Drogba.
He seems to have pace, power, decent touch, aerial ability, decent link up play and most of all knows how to find the back of the net in a variety of ways. At 24 years old we’d get a good 4-5 years and still have sell on value to maybe similar to what we pay, he’s also a United fan too isn’t he ?
He seems to have pace, power, decent touch, aerial ability, decent link up play and most of all knows how to find the back of the net in a variety of ways. At 24 years old we’d get a good 4-5 years and still have sell on value to maybe similar to what we pay, he’s also a United fan too isn’t he ?
look at his goal tonight, you can’t do that with poor technique.
Woof, that's some goal.
The time and space you get on the ball in Serie A compared to Premier League is night and day. There is definitely potential in the guy but I think he'd struggle in the PL where you do not get remotely get that much time and space on the ball and everything is faster, tighter and more pressure on you.
The price mentioned for him is also insane and I think it takes us out of the equation.
The price mentioned for him is also insane and I think it takes us out of the equation.
So what would you do
To be fair, if he wins Serie A, he’s pretty much will have more winning trophy experienced than Kane.
I haven’t watch him yet but based on the youtube videos, his ‘’outside the box‘’ game play reminds me of Welbeck. Welbeck has poor finishing ability but this guy has top class finishing ability. Some of the goals he scored are from difficult angle yet he managed to score them the one that I still remember was the goal vs Smalling. I think he can play in PL.
If he was as good as Welbeck outside the box he’s be totally without risk. As it is, Welbeck is technically far better.
This point gets talked about a bit too much. It's not like you have a nano second to do things. Strikers often get plenty of time. Besides, he has got great movement and finishing so it shouldn't be a problem for him to adapt to the league.
His goal was also a bit similar to Mitoma's earlier today in the way that they had about as much space and time, from a similar angle.
Well, the last part of my post could change if we head into the summer under new ownership depending on who that would be. We can almost guarantee Chelsea will be in for him.
So how come Chelsea haven't put a bid in with the player staying at Napoli until the summer?
Come on Victor, you know you want to....
We still remember the pic you did with Ighalo and a signed Man United shirt
We still remember the pic you did with Ighalo and a signed Man United shirt
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Can't say I've noticed him being a particularly egregious diver.
Can't say I've noticed him being a particularly egregious diver.
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