“Many” teams are considered the €140m price tag placed on Victor Osimhen a reasonable starting point for discussion, according to reports in TuttoMercatoWeb today.
That shows just how highly regarded the Napoli striker is. After another Champions League brace this week, there are few doubters remaining that the powerful number 9 is the successor to Robert Lewandowski and Karim Benzema as the top striker around.
He’s in the process of firing Napoli to the Serie A title, and his goals have helped them into the Champions League quarter finals too, so his work there isn’t done yet.
But come the end of this season, there’s an expectation that the super clubs of Europe are going to descend with monster offers that president Aurelio De Laurentiis simply can’t refuse.
We would dearly love Chelsea to be among them, but given our crazy spending, we’re surely not in the market for deals of this size until we shift some deadwood.
