The Victor Osimhen to Chelsea transfer saga is one that many Chelsea fans will be pleased to have seen the back of, even if they were disappointed not to land the striker on transfer deadline day last Friday.
Whatever happened, Chelsea seemingly worked all summer to try and bring Osimhen but played the risky game of waiting until the final day and final moments of the window to try and agree the whole deal. The game backfired and Chelsea lost out on their man.
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Osimhen of course has now gone to play for Galatasaray on loan for the rest of this season in a weird move, but it doesn’t look like he is going to or wants to stay there for the whole season.
Osimhen has break clause
Turkish outlet A Spor report that Victor Osimhen’s January break clause can only be triggered in by 10 clubs.
Turkish reporter Kagan Dursun claims the number of clubs is eight, with Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Bayern Munich all included.
— Simon Phillips (@siphillipssport) September 3, 2024
Chelsea fans who were pleased to see the back of this transfer saga will be annoyed to hear that it is not over yet and will continue up to January now.
This is because the striker has a break clause in his loan deal and can make a permanent move away from Napoli in January.
As cited by The Evening Standard today, Turkish outlet A Spor report that Victor Osimhen’s January break clause can only be triggered in by 10 clubs.
Turkish reporter Kagan Dursun claims the number of clubs is eight, with Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Bayern Munich all included.
So Chelsea fans might have to stay strapped in, because you just know that we are about to get the rumours and stories of Chelsea getting ready to go back in for Osimhen this winter!
Simon, you really need to explain how you can accuse the club of leaving the Osimhen negotiations “late” unless you mean to imply that we should have met his extravagant wage demands earlier in the window. Is that what you’re honestly suggesting?
Because we never intended to break the bank on him and destroy our wage structure in the process, we were always going to need to leave the negotiations until late in the window in order to build pressure on him to accept less (or wind up in Saudi Arabia). This is Negotiation 101 stuff and given the amount of time you spend covering this stuff (and talking like an expert!) it’s kind of amazing that you don’t seem to get it. As it played out our strategy nearly worked and it still might because Osimhen is now going to have five months in the backwaters of Turkey to think long and hard about whether 500k/week is so important that he’s OK kissing a career in a top European league goodbye.