Victor Osimhen | out of options | goes to Gala on loan

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bosnian_red said:
One of those where it really hammers in "take your transfer when you have the chance". From one of the most sought after strikers to now being excluded from registration in a year? Of course he'd still be wanted but he must have just been too demanding wages wise, and this is what happens.
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The club may bear some blame not being able to move him if they had much better offers last year. Especially from PSG, which you'd imagine would have been more flexible for wages. De Laurentiis gambled and lost.
 
Not sure what his fault is..
No one should ever be blamed for not going to the Saudi league.. especially not a 25 year old striker playing at the highest level
and, the Chelsea offer was a joke.

It's a shit situation.. happens..
He might still go to the saudi league if they offer him stupid money.. but that's the least he should be demanding to move there at this stage of his career.
 
Veni_Vidi_Vidic said:
It's been kind of forgotten that Napoli paid Lille €70 million plus add-ons of up to €10 million for him, despite Lille only paying €12 million for him a year earlier.

The €65 million they've been trying to flog him for represents a loss on him. And yet they still couldn't shift him.
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It was a big fee but slightly dodgy and inflated — in return Lille paid around €20m for four players; three youth kids who were instantly loaned into Serie C/D and a 35 year old keeper.

Effectively Napoli paid around €50m or so for him in actuality. Maybe a bit more depending on the add-ons.
 
bb8 said:
Are you sure about that? I'd be interested in seeing a source. Capology says he makes £209k per week GROSS, and any articles on his extension don't mention a net/gross distinction.

Worth noting, Italy has repealed the favorable taxation for foreign footballers. It no longer applies if that's what you're referring to.
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Capology is not a reliable source. I have no idea why anyone treats it as such.
 
he and his agent clearly over played their hand and he's going to sit on his arse now for 5 months doing feck all
 
duffer said:
What do you think the Chelsea offer was?

I'm not trying to catch you out, I saw that it was £8mil a year inc performance based stuff but obviously that might be wrong.
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£8m including(!) bonuses is less than what people on Bayern’s bench make. I completely understand how that offer (if true) can be labeled as insulting.
 
DWelbz19 said:
Capology is not a reliable source. I have no idea why anyone treats it as such.
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Certainly more reliable than nothing. and usually directionally close. That's why I asked for a source anyway.
 
duffer said:
Bayern pay crazy money though. You've got multiple people on over 300K a week.
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Two wrongs don’t make a right. Paying Gnabry, Goretzka, Coman €17m is stupid.

Offering a 25yo Osimhen that is on 300k pw and playing the most requested position in football a £4m + £4m in add-ons contract is pathetic, if true.
 
Alemar said:
But is it so relevant? If there are no takers at this salary, then perhaps his “fair salary” is lower than that.
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Yes, but there is a (very big!) gap between 300k pw and Chelsea’s alleged 4m+4m offer.

Fecking Bryan Zaragoza (“Who?”, you rightfully ask) is on €5-6m a year.
 
duffer said:
He's on 300K a week at Napoli? Jesus Christ.
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He's not, because of favourable taxation. But an english club would have to pay him that for him not to lose money. He's on around 14m euros a year. But again, PSG were ok paying him that(14 gross) and he was fine taking the paycut for them. He just wasn't keen on Chelsea earlier on, and then your offer was frankly ridiculous compared to what he makes.

Napoli fecked him over 5m with the Saudi club
 
duffer said:
What do you think the Chelsea offer was?

I'm not trying to catch you out, I saw that it was £8mil a year inc performance based stuff but obviously that might be wrong.
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I read he is on 11m euros at Napoli. Chelsea offered him 4m guaranteed and another 4m based on CL qualification/goals

the guaranteed was less than 40% of what he is on and even with all bonuses, it was well under his current wages.
 
Napoli surely the cause of their own downfall, agree a deal with Saudi only to change the parameters likely due to the Chelsea interest.

Now they will have to sell an out of form striker in a few months paying his wages and receiving less given his diminished value within that time frame.
 
prateik said:
I read he is on 11m euros at Napoli. Chelsea offered him 4m guaranteed and another 4m based on CL qualification/goals

the guaranteed was less than 40% of what he is on and even with all bonuses, it was well under his current wages.
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That €11m at Napoli is net. As @giorno stated above, it corresponds to £300k pw gross in England.
 
A lot of people commenting on Osimhen that don’t actually watch him play. But that’s the internet for you. People speaking with confidence on things they don’t know about. His numbers at Napoli are a little over a goal every other game (65 goals or so in 108 appearances).

He’s not the most technical player but in the right team, where he’s the final tip of the spear, he’ll do well. I think if he moved to Arsenal they’d be serious title cotenders.

I’ve seen a lot of posters on other social media sites pile on him as being some sort of money grubbing mercenary for not taking Cheslea’s offer which is about half of his current wages. How many posters here would take a 50% paycut to do the same job at a different company.

I’m in the tech industry and sure, I’d like to work at an Apple or Google. But if they told me “Mr.Williams, we want you, but your current salary of $280K a year, we can’t do that. $140K a year is the best we can offer” I’d look elsewhere.

Where Osimhen messed up was signing the contract extension. Napoli were never going to be in the position to pay him that £300K/wk salary through the end of the contract extension and the asking price at the time (€100M+) put off a lot of suitors.

The market for strikers simply changed in a year. The clubs that needed a striker and can afford him, all seem settled. ADL misread the market badly, could have cashed in on him for closer to €80-€90M last season.
 
duffer said:
Bayern pay crazy money though. You've got multiple people on over 300K a week.
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Your offer was a joke mate and he didn’t want to play for Chelsea in the first place.
You’re not going to sign one of the top rated strikers in football on 90k a week plus bonuses
 
duffer said:
"I never fancied her anyway".
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he didnt sign for you after you sent a delegate to Napoli for over 3 days. His agent said publicly he would not join you on loan weeks ago.

You thought you could take advantage of the situation which is fair enough, but it didnt work
 
Marcus said:
Cheeky bid in January seems the way to go?
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The interesting question is how low you can hope to go if he's basically lepered for 6 months and SSCN are desperate to get rid. 50m ?
There might be a bit of a bidding war though.
 
Cassidy said:
he didnt sign for you after you sent a delegate to Napoli for over 3 days. His agent said publicly he would not join you on loan weeks ago.

You thought you could take advantage of the situation which is fair enough. But it didnt work
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If he didn't want to play for Chelsea, he would not have wasted his time negotiating. He'd have said "I don't want to play for Chelsea".

He fecked around, was greedy and now he's cleaning Lukaku's boots for 6 months.
 
duffer said:
If he didn't want to play for Chelsea, he would not have wasted his time negotiating. He'd have said "I don't want to play for Chelsea".

He fecked around, was greedy and now he's cleaning Lukaku's boots for 6 months.
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Greedy ha. Good luck with Jackson and good luck finding a top striker for 90k a week
 
Acrobat7 said:
£8m including(!) bonuses is less than what people on Bayern’s bench make. I completely understand how that offer (if true) can be labeled as insulting.
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If you're going by Di Marzio's reports on the salary offer, that was net yearly wages which is how Italians always report them. For a pre-tax figure you'd have to almost double the reported number. That would put the offer somewhere in the £300K/wk region bonuses included. Surely Bayern's bench do not earn that much?

Cassidy said:
Greedy ha. Good luck with Jackson and good luck finding a top striker for 90k a week
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Said it before on this forum but will repeat it again. Jackson is seriously underrated here.
 
Rnd898 said:
If you're going by Di Marzio's reports on the salary offer, that was net yearly wages which is how Italians always report them. For a pre-tax figure you'd have to almost double the reported number. That would put the offer somewhere in the £300K/wk region bonuses included. Surely Bayern's bench do not earn that much?
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Since Goretzka and Coman are on the bench…

I read the €4m+4m offer as gross, not net. If it was net, it is obviously twice as good. However, according to ChatGPT, the base salary would still only be £120k pw!
 
No sympathy for him or Napoli in this one. Thankfully McTominay moving wasnt dependent on this deal.
 
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