Thanks both, much appreciated. My fear was that in the PL he'd have less time on the ball and therefore his (supposed) deficiencies on the ball would get exposed and our attacks and build up could potentially breakdown before they have chance to develop. I might have misinterpreted the extent people are talking down his ability on the ball. I wasn't aware that Napoli play possession focused football (I only watch Serie A highlights) so it's very comforting to know that he can excel in that sort of set-up. His age and current trajectory suggest he's the ideal target. Somewhat promising that there were murmurings of the Napoli president being happy to allow him to leave if they win the Scudetto. Let's wait and see...
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Not sure he is going to drop down the conference league tbh from Italian league winners and CL footy.
Genuinely think this is one of those situations where having CL football would make a big difference.
True but Boehly's money is talking
Imagine this guy in our front line with rashford! Another one who’s on firee
Can we not just go in with a 220-250mil offer for osimhen and kvara? They are brilliant and brilliant together. Genuinely excellent partnership.
Hes definitely on the move this summer. His transfer is being investigated in the same way Juve are.
it was 100 percent cooked as well
it was 100 percent cooked as well
Another couple of goals to add to his fantastic goalscoring season
Guys a beast. He’ll cost an absolute bomb though.
Need CL football and new ownership so we can negate that threat of Chelsea for him
Gets up well when not massively tall for number 9
He’s fantastic
It's genuinely a no brainer. Make him priority number 1 in the summer.
Napoli getting ready to slap a £200m price tag on him this summer.
If we do some how sign him, our deliveries need to get so much better.
We can't miss the boat if we get Champions League, he will destroy teams in this league.
Not even gonna entertain it, he's either going to Madrid or Boehley will pay 150m
Unfortunately I don't think we can afford him.
We absolutely can.
He's starting to reach Haaland levels. I think there will be too much competition for his signature and we usually miss out when that's the case.
Is his general level of involvement as little as Haaland‘s? Maybe we should be looking for a different type of striker than an elite poacher.
Yes and probably even worse than Haaland in that aspect but he works harder defensively.
It's too easy to score in Serie A. The level of the league is low. If you have the physique you are dominant. As was Lukaku. Never buy in serie A a striker dominant thanks his physique (Lukaku, Osimhen, Vlahovic ecc.). In serie A you must muy tecnichal players.
The true top player of Napoli is not Osimhen. The top player is Kvaratskhelia.
I don't know if he'd be ten Hag's number 1 choice.
Despite being injured a lot, we've seen how much ten Hag talks up Martial, and has clearly said we play better with him in the team.
To me, that has a lot to do with a Martial's back to goal play - similar to Weghorst.
If we can get a player who has that plus goals (no one better than Kane) then I think that's who ten Hag would prefer.
Let's say we have, Kane, Martial and Rashford as our forward options, then we have two players in Kane and Martial who has fantastic link play and someone in Rashford, who, like Osimhen, is more of a running in behind striker.
Despite being injured a lot, we've seen how much ten Hag talks up Martial, and has clearly said we play better with him in the team.
To me, that has a lot to do with a Martial's back to goal play - similar to Weghorst.
If we can get a player who has that plus goals (no one better than Kane) then I think that's who ten Hag would prefer.
Let's say we have, Kane, Martial and Rashford as our forward options, then we have two players in Kane and Martial who has fantastic link play and someone in Rashford, who, like Osimhen, is more of a running in behind striker.
Hmm, not so sure if he'd be worth the outlay in that case.
I’m not sure it’s that significant. The likes of Mudryk and Enzo have just joined them knowing full well they probably won’t have UCL football next season.
Is he a one season wonder like Darwin Nunez or has he been doing it for a few years now for Napoli? He’s going to cost a lot of money and for that, i would rather get a proven quality like Kane although he’ll be older
yes we can. The summer we will have a good sized budget plus sales. We can afford him.
Yeah and confident Erik can bring even more out of his game if he's willing to take that opportunity to join us which is still 50/50
The belief that Lukaku tore the Serie A apart the way Halaand is doing the PL is a pure myth, entertained by some bias…
Using Lukaku as a stick to beat Osimhen’s Serie A performances is not fair. Lukaku scored 24 non penalty goals in the PL… His best tally in Italy, being serviced by the best team of that league was 18 non penalty goals..
It is more relevant to compare respective qualities and what we need. Osimhen is a pressing machine, nothing like Lukaku and he is very good on the air (again nothing like Lukaku)…
I don't know if Osimhen was fully fit in past seasons (think he had several injuries) but it's interesting to see how well he and Kvara link up. Osimhen's scoring record this season is so much better than previous seasons.
No need to waste our time going after him, Chelsea will offer 150m and get him.
He will be the first one billion transfer, Boehly will pay it.
We don't need a left winger.
what if we get one better than the one we got ?
How can Chelsea buy him for 100m+ after everything they've spent, surely it has to stop at some point, in terms of FFP?
So you would spend massive money on a player who may or may not be an improvement on Rashford, when we have much bigger priorities?