Yeah, this one is one of those completely made up rumors given life by twitter 'journalists'.
Victor Osimhen
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What is that supposed to prove?Well this just changes everything. Wow. I mean it makes you completely forget that his agent is publicly trying to move him to another club, so that he could pad his personal stats. But this 19 second clip just shows Ronaldo, as an amazing team player.
It's the club's money. Glazers either spend or get out ffs.
Are you being sarcastic? Amazing team player or not, please look at what he contributes to the team during the game... we are a football club not a pre-match club...
People are laughing at the deal but looking at all the pieces in isolation, it would be far better for us. Never happening due to us being done in the window IMO, no chance of another big purchase. But 130m euros for osimhein is basically the going rate for a guy like that (more proven than Darwin), and getting rid of Ronaldo is a pretty important thing to do IMO. No chance we pay 85% though, more likely we have a mutual termination in some way where we pay him off a bit.
Yes
He's got much more about him than Nunez. This is exactly the type of signing that moves the needle.
From a sporting side, this deal will be much better for us. From the economical side not, but again, today's market is weird so if deal improves our performance on the pitch, why not. I would like to see Osimhen at the end of that inswinging cross by Antony. 
Very true but no way we paying €100m+
Wow, he looks terrible on YouTube.
Seriously? We just payed 100 mill € for Antony. This ain’t happening 100%.
Ronaldo to Napoli and Memphis to United.
Ronaldo to Napoli and Memphis to United.
Yeah or Aubameyang
They don't. It's a simple matter of the plan with Osimhen was always going to be to sell for 9 figures down the line, so if the offer comes now, they can't really turn it down, especially when they're getting a replacement in place at the same time
Only way this happens is if we can get some of the same deal ls Spurs did for Kulusevski. Obligation to buy for at least €80m if we make CL next summer sounds fair and we get to see if he's good enough.
Overall, given our transfer dealings a bit of a pipe dream.
Overall, given our transfer dealings a bit of a pipe dream.
Only way this deal makes sense is if they accept an obligation to buy and us paying Ronnie's wages effectively becomes their loan fee. Then next season we make a big effort to push out the deadwood on permanent deals so that next summer's budget is not heavily affected as we will still need a GK, CM and RB. But if we can chance one or two biggish sales by then it could be done, for example Henderson, Maguire/Shaw, the likes of Bailly, Tuanzebe etc.
Could that happen at all?
Is he a big deal in Italy or something? Does he always look so base?
What exactly is supposed to be potentially special about him?
I'd love this, and I think it would make a massive difference to our season. But it goes without saying it's complete nonsense. Agent noise and some creativity by a couple of Italian journos.
I mean he's no Tammy Abraham
I don't know enough about Napoli and the Italian league FFP (if there are any) but we've seen similar arrangements plenty often, usually within Seria A. Even Mbappe was 'loaned' to PSG with an obligation to buy for a season.
As long as they know they're getting the money, they can get financing as well, I think.
Having said that, it'd take Murtough a couple of days to fly there and check who this guy is. Unless, of course, the Glazers got scared to death again and just said green-lit the whole thing in 5 minutes Casemiro-style.
Yeah this is definitely pie in the sky
Let say if the club be able to pay for him as loan with obligation to buy next season, what the opionion on him as a player for us? Suit us? Can he improve in the future and be that striker for us?
Im like 50/50 for him.
Im like 50/50 for him.
He seems to split opinion, some of very much on the bandwagon whereas others think he looks utterly terrible on YouTube
What kind of channel does he have? I hope it isn't one of those applying makeup channels.
Loan deal for him looks highly unlikely
Yes, he's looked really special in serie A, he's a big deal for sure. Rare combination of size, strenght, pace, acceleration, engine and football IQ. Think poor man's Haaland
Technique wise hes ok and scoring goals with his feet is still to be seen. However, it certainly effected by the way he play becaue he looks like to fight for the ball all the time and use his physique to do it. It kinda hinders and makes him looks rushy and busy all the time and thus no finese.
Nah, you and Chelsea are simply overpaying a winger for however meagre his output, call it panic buy or desperation or throw money away I can’t say… on the other hand, a truly promising striker on the up and going for the same amount will pretty always however score more than any winger but a new Ronaldo. Silly for silly, I rest my logic.
A poor man's Haaland for over £100m sounds very underwhelming.
....have you seen Haaland?
Yeah, the whole thing seems unrealistic.
But knowing the extent of our interest in Osimhen would be interesting, because we will need a CF signing next summer and I can't think of many other premium talents who will become available over the next year. So this might be a link that gets picked back up on next summer.
I have but we should try to sign someone as close to his quality as possible. Out of interest, how would you compare Osimhen to Lautaro Martinez? Who do you think is the better player?....have you seen Haaland?
Osimhen. Way better
Fact of the matter is, better young strikers than Osimhen are very few, and mostly unattainable at this time(Mbappé, Haaland, Gabriel Jesus, jury still out on Nuñez and Vlahovic)
he'd 100% score more goals than Cristiano or Martial, but we surely can't spend another 100m on 1 attacker
But we can take him on loan with an option to buy, while sending Ronaldo in the opposite direction. Then Osimhen becomes an instant starter and very likely significantly improves our team
Interesting. As someone who doesn't watch much Italian football, I was under the impression that Martinez is a better and more technically proficient player.
More technically proficient yeah, though not by much. Better player, i don't think so. Lautaro lacks elite physical traits and isn't some genius technician on the ball. His best quality arguably is his doggedness, but Osimhen is a terrier too
Antony is also a promising winger on the up. And this guy's goal output last year was nothing great. Antony wasn't the main goal getter in his team and did job as a creator just as well while being much younger. Not such what your logic even is.
Scored 14 league goals in a cone league last year, so no.