After Al-Ahli… Napoli: The door was closed in Osimen’s face

Italian Napoli have explained that Nigerian Victor Osimene, a first-team football striker, chose not to play for the club, which dropped him from the local league list, after negotiations for his transfer to Chelsea failed. Al-Ahly of England or Saudi Arabia.
The Italian club’s director Giovanni Manna told the streaming network: “Osimene’s name was not included in the list that Napoli submitted to Serie A on Saturday, because it was very clear that he did not want to play for Napoli, so we took other options,” since the end of last season. Victor expressed his desire not to stay and play in Naples and we tried to please him.”
Mana added: “Then we thought we finished the negotiations, but then we bought the Belgian Romelu Lukaku, and that didn’t happen. At the moment, we are maintaining the same approach that we took from the beginning. He expressed his desire not to play for Napoli, So we created other options.
After the summer transfer market closed in the five major European leagues, and thus Chelsea were out of the picture, Mana was asked if the possibility of Osimehene moving to the Saudi league still existed and he replied: “The transfer market in some countries still has many options, but I. .. “I don’t think Victor will go to Saudi Arabia during this transfer window, especially since the registration window for new players in the Saudi league closes on Monday night.”
Osimene’s situation represents a big financial burden on the club, as his sale would ensure funding for a new contract, and Mana continued: “Our ideas were clear from the beginning that the sale we were waiting for to sell Victor to finance these operations did not happen, and the president Aurelio De Laurentiis took over the investment “he took all the risks and he was amazing.”
Osimhen, 25, became the subject of much attention during the summer of 2023 after he scored 26 goals in the Italian league and was one of the architects of the third crown in Napoli’s history.