Victor Osimhen - £74m Napoli Signing

[Classical Mechanic]

What's the story here then? 13 goals and 4 assists in the French league last season, nothing to show whilst he was in Germany before that. He's 21 granted but doesn't this seem more than a little eyebrow raising?

https://www.whoscored.com/Players/298510/Show/Victor-Osimhen

 

[Paolo Di Canio]

Rinsed

 

[VorZakone]

There's a real lack of young quality strikers. Resulting in fees like these.

 

[Ish]

Wow, that's steep. What's happened to the post covid price crash?

 

[Adam-Utd]

Very good striker.

Extremely quick, finishes well with both feet and always works hard.

It's a big fee but he does have huge potential.

Played well in the CL this year, it's fair to say he improved a lot while playing in Belgium.

 

[Rozay]

In before ‘he’s not probably not really 21 either’.

 

[neilv93]

Cracking player but even in the post-Neymar market this is £20-30m too high for my liking. That said, he has a high ceiling and Napoli will fancy their chances at developing him but they just won't have any profit resale value at this price.

 

[Clermontois]

Rinsed

Far more value in this deal than what is in it for us if we go for Grealish or Maddison at a similar fee.

The fee quoted is incorrect by the way.

 

[drdoityourself]

Luis Campos is Lille's sporting director. Sold Nicholas Pepe to Arsenal for another fortune. The same guy behind the squad Monaco had before all the sales. Impressive.

 

[Chairman Steve]

My initial thought was someone has obviously bought Koulibaly then.

 

[Classical Mechanic]

Far more value in this deal than what is in it for us if we go for Grealish or Maddison at a similar fee.

The fee quoted is incorrect by the way.

What is the fee? Looks complex from what I can see. I'd just seen £74m being banded about.

 

[André Dominguez]

How did Napoli funded the transfer? But he has Luis Campos seal of quality, so...

 

[WeePat]

They're paying for potential, no doubt.

 

[duffer]

Far more value in this deal than what is in it for us if we go for Grealish or Maddison at a similar fee.

The fee quoted is incorrect by the way.

What is the correct fee?

 

[Web of Bissaka]

I'm not seeing the C19 affecting transfer prices to get lower..

Seems to be it's the other way around.

 

[Classical Mechanic]

I'm not seeing the C19 affecting transfer prices to get lower..

Seems to be it's the other way around.

That was my thought. Seems a crazy price in the Covid market. Sancho seems toppy but he's got 65 goals and assists in the past two seasons in a better league. This guys output is nowhere near that.

18/19 25 apps 12 goals 3 assists in Belgium
19/20 27 apps 13 goals 4 assists in France

 

[bond19821982]

There are about 4 Napoli players going to Lille for about 25m. These kind of shady deals are now very often probably to get around the FFP rules.

 

[Clermontois]

What is the fee? Looks complex from what I can see. I'd just seen £74m being banded about.

What is the correct fee?

As.com quoted a fee of 50mil euros + 10mil variables and over the years has been one of the most accurate mediaoutlets.

https://as.com/futbol/2020/07/31/internacional/1596206543_949265.html

 

[Mb194dc]

Deal is structured with loads of add ons, like Martial deal probably.

Will only see how covid crisis effects football when we see how revenue is by December 2021. How sponsors react is also key.

 

[BrilliantOrange]

When Ajax played Lille earlier this season he was very much hyped upfront to be the biggest threat we had to watch out for... To be perfectly honest he really didnt impress me during those two matches and was fairly easily contained by the duos Veltman Blind and Martinez Schuurs.. I didnt see anything to justify such an insane amount of money (even/especially in these times)..

That being said... Ive not seen more of him than those two games against Ajax, not a big watcher of the French league.. So my impression is based on close to nothing..

 

[paraguayo]

74m for Osihmen and 44m for Lozano who now is on the bench, two big gambles. Specially because they had Carlos Vinicius in their books, could have given him a chance

 

[Shane88]

Mafia money laundering, or something.

 

[Skills]

Napoli seem to do quite well with strikers don't they?

 

[esmufc07]

I love how so many on the Caf seemingly know the strengths and weaknesses of every player on the planet.

 

[Tarrou]

does seem a bit random

you'd think young player worth that amount would have all the top clubs after him, but I don't remember many links

 

[RedRonaldo]

Let’s try get Sancho for cheaper price!

 

[izec]

He started the season on fire though. The price is a bit steep, but we don't know the details.

 

[elnorte]

Mafia money laundering, or something.

Camorra

 

[marktan]

It's £50m is it not? Which isn't a terrible gamble on a striker with potential.

I did watch his goals and assists from last year, and while nothing struck me as amazing, he did the fundamentals well and was very pacey.

 

[stu_1992]

Very surprised to see him go for that much to be honest. It's the type of money you'd pay for a game-changing striker, and for someone who has never played in the Italian league before and is young, it's a lot to ask. The pressure will be pretty big. He did well for them, but I would have pictured the fee being 35-40 million at most. Fair play to Lille for getting more I suppose.

 

[Clermontois]

Very surprised to see him go for that much to be honest. It's the type of money you'd pay for a game-changing striker, and for someone who has never played in the Italian league before and is young, it's a lot to ask. The pressure will be pretty big. He did well for them, but I would have pictured the fee being 35-40 million at most. Fair play to Lille for getting more I suppose.

Coming from a far more physical and athletic league, it really is not.

 

[stu_1992]

Coming from a far more physical and athletic league, it really is not.

Physicality is one thing. But it's still a different style of play in Serie A than in Ligue 1. You're still asking a young person to adapt to yet another new country, new league new style of play and team-mates. All with the pressure of a big fee on top. I think it's fair to say it a lot to ask, especially when his numbers have been good but not amazing. I'm a season ticket holder here in France, I rate the Italian league as a higher standard overall.

 

[RooneyLegend]

He's quality, steep price but will eventually prove to be worth it. However he is an old fashioned striker. Devastating physicality.

 

[Red Indian Chief Torn Rubber]

very happy for him. I hope he does nigeria proud

 

[FootballHQ]

He's impressed me on the few occasions I've seen him play for Lille, scored a few in the CL aswell last season.

Certainly a premier league fee there. Can't help feeling though Napoli as a squad are past their peak now and he's joining them at the wrong time.

Is Milik to Juve happening then?

 

[pascell]

Strange fee given Napoli didn't even get Europa League for next season

 

[The Original]

does seem a bit random

you'd think young player worth that amount would have all the top clubs after him, but I don't remember many links

You could say the same with Bruno so it doesn't necessarily work that way.

 

[Arios]

as someone said 90% some players going to Lille for 25-30m I heard Ounas + Karnezis
A bit like Barcellona and Juventus did for Arthur-Pjanic
Pimp the prices so both get better value in the books

 

[chiz2kul]

I think the fee will be justified. He's such a fantastic hard working player. Definitely enjoyed watching him today.

 

[lloyd2wayne]

If we miss out on Haaland, this guy will be my next choice. His goal scoring is incredible, feels like he scores every other game. He is also only 21 too.

Napoli will be asking for close to £100 million considering they paid €70 million for him.