Man Utd and Chelsea are jostling for position in the queue to sign Victor Osimhen. Johnny Nic ponders ‘What’s So Great About…’ the £100million-plus Napoli hit-man…
Who’s this then?
Victor James Osimhen is a 6’1” Nigerian striker who plays in Serie A for table-topping Napoli, is one of the most successful and in-demand strikers in Europe, liable to attract a huge fee this summer. He scored two goals in the Champions League against Eintracht Frankfurt on Wednesday.
Born in Lagos in December 1998 he played for Ultimate Strikers Academy in Nigeria and aged just 17 made a huge impression at the 2015 FIFA Under-17 World Cup, which Nigeria won and our Vic picked up the Golden Boot and Silver Ball after netting 10 goals in seven games.
Wolfsburg liked what they saw, so in January 1997 they fired up the money hose, blasted 3.5million euros into Ult. Striker’s bank account and took him to Germany. However, it was a year before he made his full debut and in 16 appearances he didn’t score, so he was loaned out to Charleroi in the Belgian Premier League.
Although the club finished ninth, he netted 10 times in 36 appearances. This made the bigger boys sit up and raise a quizzical eye but Charleroi activated a clause in their loan deal to buy VJO for 3.5million euros in July 2019, but in August, French outfit Lille turned up drunk and let 22.4million euros fall out of their pocket, bundled him into the back of a rusty 2CV and took him to the capital of Flanders.
One season later he had won Player Of The Season, made 38 appearances and scored 18 goals and was looking like one of hottest young forwards in Europe. Consequently his price rocketed skywards. When Napoli arrived at Lille, pointed at Victor and said ‘we’d like one of him please’. ‘It’ll cost you 75million euros’, said Lille. I Ciucciarelli coughed up the moolah and he’s been there since 2020-21 season.
He’s scored 51 goals in 90 games and 23 in 28 this season. In February he became the first player in the history of Napoli (in the three-point era) to score in seven league games in a row. He’s expected to cost well north of £100million to get him out of Naples and into the Premier League. With Napoli 18 points ahead at the top of Serie A, he’s set to win his first club silverware of his career and they are some critics who fancy them as dark horses for the Champions League. Especially after this draw.
His international career started in 2017. He helped Nigeria…
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