Corriere Della Sera reports that the price tag on Napoli striker Victor Osimhen by the club’s President is a strategy to keep the player from leaving the Gli Azzurri in the summer.
According to Corriere Della Sera, Osimhen’s value has not appreciated above the €60m spent to bring him from Lille stressing that President De Laurentiis’ €100m for the Nigerian Super Eagle is exorbitant.
He said, “Its value is 60 million and remains today the same as it was two years ago when it was taken over by Lille. De Laurentiis’ €100 million is too much? It is certainly a strategy to lock the center forward for the future”.
Osimhen has been a subject of interest in England with Manchester United and Newcastle rumoured to be studying the possibility of securing the services of the Napoli striker.
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The player who has spent two seasons in Italy scored 11 goals in 22 appearances in all competition for Napoli this season despite his two months absence from action due to a sustained head injury.
Nonetheless, Napoli’s President is looking towards Liverpool’s Divock Origi whose contract is due to expire as a possible replacement for Osimhen should he leave in the summer.
Napoli manager Luciano Spalletti trying to bring the best out of the Nigerian striker ensures he undergoes pieces of training that will aid him to channel his energy to be more clinical in the club’s attack.
