Victor Osimhen has dominated gossip columns throughout Europe for the most effective a part of a yr.
The striker, because of his unbelievable type at SSC Napoli, has grow to be the most popular property in Europe heading into the summer season switch window with a number of Premier League golf equipment all eager to signal him.
So which membership ought to he be a part of?
Properly that is what we’re right here to search out out.
By enlisting the assistance of 90min’s resident Arsenal (Harry Symeou), Chelsea (Tom Gott), and Manchester United (Scott Saunders) consultants, we have assessed the professionals and cons for every membership signing Osimhen this summer season.
Professionals:
Becoming a member of a workforce who’re creating sufficient probabilities to plunder 21 targets of their final 4 Premier League video games regardless of not having a prolific quantity 9?
That is a dream situation for any prolific striker, and that is precisely what Osimhen is. The 25-year-old’s aim document at Napoli speaks for itself – 61 in 99 Serie A video games – and his presence in and across the field lead many to consider that he’ll carry that type to the Premier League too.
Given the opposite golf equipment he is linked with, Osimhen would even be a press release signing for the Gunners.
Cons:
The potential price is the primary one.
With a £112m price ticket on his head, and a notoriously troublesome negotiator in Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis to try to persuade that valuation is unreasonable, Arsenal shall be anticipated to be pay over the chances to signal the ahead.
And in the event that they do signal him, questions will stay over whether or not or not Osimhen is the best tactical match for Mikel Arteta’s aspect. Can he press within the closing third to an enough normal? Can he be a facilitator for Arsenal’s vast gamers in the identical means Gabriel Jesus is? It is all up within the air proper now.
Professionals:
With pictures doing the rounds on social media of a younger Osimhen sporting a Chelsea shirt, signing a participant who really loves the membership is a large plus.
The truth that he has been a constant goalscorer throughout three leagues (Belgian Professional League, Ligue 1 and Serie A) and his bodily presence additionally counsel he might really be the reply to Chelsea’s current quantity 9 curse and, on the very least, be an enormous improve on Nicolas Jackson.
Cons:
Once more, the price.
Regardless of signing a number of gamers in current seasons, the present Chelsea squad nonetheless requires a number of work and signing a participant as costly as Osimhen would restrict the membership’s capability to resolve different drawback areas within the squad.
Osimhen’s current checklist of hamstring and muscle accidents might also be a pink flag for Chelsea too. The Blues have already got loads of senior gamers with patchy health information (here is you, Reece James), so it is arduous to the membership leaping on the likelihood to signal one other one.
Professionals:
Manchester United lack high quality choices up entrance, and Osimhen might be the best high quality ahead that shall be in the marketplace this summer season. With Bruno Fernandes whipping the ball into the field, the ahead would just about assure targets at Outdated Trafford
One other upside to touchdown Osimhen could be the truth that United’s rivals cannot signal him.
Cons:
United’s present monetary state of affairs and sheer quantity of holes of their squad (here is you, defence and midfield), implies that investing over £100m on one participant in all probability would not be good.
Below new INEOS management, the Pink Devils must make intelligent, a lot cheaper, signings so as strengthen the workforce as an entire.
One other big disadvantage for signing Osimhen would even be the truth that it might doubtlessly stunt the event of Rasmus Hojlund. The younger striker had, previous to a current minor damage, come on leaps and bounds for the reason that flip of the yr, and it might be a disgrace not proceed to domesticate his skills and make him the membership’s marquee quantity 9 transferring ahead.
