Yes but if someone offers you that upfront as we did with Maguire it’s a different proposition. No idea if we can afford that but feel we have to try for the one or two elite strikers.
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Osimhen is the cheaper option of Kane and Hojlund. At least he has a resale value of £80m approx. meaning if things don’t fully work out we’d only be looking at losing £40m. Kane even for £100m has 0 resale value in 3 yrs.
Have you seen how much Napoli want?
Yes £120m. You have to factor in residual value .
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Wages in the region of £1million per week. Wow.
Good luck to us getting him next summer and dealing with Aurelio De Laurentiis now that Kane is moving to Bayern
We are if we want him to be our starting striker
Who cares about Osimhen?
In a world where DMs like Rice and Caicedo cost £100-£110m, Napoli's demands for Osimhen actually seem pretty reasonable.
Yeah he is a star striker after all
Posted this in the wrong forum.
Would love to sign him IF we get new ownership by next summer,otherwise that's a big chunk out of a budget for one player
Off the back of one elite season. Wow. Football is a mad game. It’s basically whoever is flavour of the month
I don’t think the clause would be valid for this summer…
It's mad isn't it. It was only a couple of months ago that these +100 million figures were being floated for the likes of Osimhen and everyone thought it was crazy. Now with the prices we've seen for the likes of Rice, Caicedo and fecking Paqueta, Napoli seem well withing their rights to want 140 mil for one of the top strikers around.
Agree. The market is absolutely bonkers though. When the next Maradona/Messi type players shows up, I shudder at what price said player would command at the age of 22/23,
We made a huge mistake by not going for him this summer.
Couldn’t be dropping 150 on him
We could have but we decided to spend budget in different way. Imo, i think that we would be stronger with him than we will be with Hojlund and Mount.
He wouldn't change a thing if our midfield is as shambolic as it was today.
Those two costed 120-130 million combined. Osimhen would haves costed 150 million, and De Laurentis is basically the Italian Levy.
What with exactly you clown
Oh I see given up on Rasmus before he has even kicked a ball for us,oh how very supportive of this team you really are
Why? He needs to work on his game in many aspects, and has had one good season for Napoli. He isn't a top tier striker like Kane or Lewandowski if that's what you think.
He would be a risk too, especially for €150m.
Worth noting that Mikel said this whilst laughing and joking. It was not a serious comment at all. Romano stripped all the context.
You don’t think he did it for social media interactions do you?
It would be unfair to assume, seeing as he has no previous with this. I'm inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.
He'd be a monster for Chelsea.
Osimhen for Jackson would be a huge upgrade.
Osimhen for Jackson would be a huge upgrade.
Oshimen for anyone at Old Trfford would be a huge upgrade.
Yes, and tax free!!
Osimhen for Old Trafford would be a huge upgrade. He doesn't leak.
Osimhem for Arnold
We’d need to shift about 4 players to afford him
Don't Napoli want a huge fee for him? Plus with our FFP troubles, I can only see him ending up at chelsea unfortunately.
I'm surprised he is still at Napoli i was sure he went to Saudi in the summer as they were basically asking him to name his price.
Nice to see some players think more of their career.
Nice to see some players think more of their career.
Yeah. Luckily for us we have those high earning - little to no contribution players in abundance. Martial and Sancho, and I’d guess all his wages are covered, and then some.
It’s raising the transfer fee I’d worry about as our high wages generally means we’re unable to shift players on successfully.