Chelsea 'closing in' on transfer amid Osimhen 'surprise' as Napoli 'ask' for two Blues in exchange
According to reports, Chelsea have re-keyed in the race to indication Napoli onward Victor Osimhen as they look to flourish in showering locales.
Chelsea have currently spent about £100m on finalizings this summertime season, wearing Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall and Filip Jorgensen among their standout additions.
Enzo Maresca’s side are yet to contain a brand name-newfangled demonstrator to their staff, but they are tipping upward their exertions to indication at the poorly least one brand name-newfangled onward before the transfer window closes later this month.
Showing off Lisbon’s Viktor Gyokeres, Brentford’s Ivan Toney and RB Leipzig’s Benjamin Sesko have been remarked as chance targets this summertime season, but 20-year-worn Atletico Madrid star Samu Omorodion owns arised as their numerous likely addition.
Omorodion racked upward 8 La Liga needs during his outbreak finance spell at La Liga rivals Deportivo Alaves last season and Chelsea are ‘closing on’ on signing the demonstrator, who is composed for to extensive his feedback to Stamford Catwalk after Atletico Madrid land Individual Municipal void’s Julian Alvarez for £64m plus monumental contain-ons.
On Tuesday early morning, transfer wizard Fabrizio Romano claimed: “Chelsea are closing in on Samu Omorodion bargain for £35m wearing Atléti.”
He later had: “Chelsea have with one voice bundle wearing Samu Omorodion to indicator upward wearing the bar on 7 year contract, valid upward until June 2031.
“Individual specification equipped and Atlético to receive £35m price, as disclosed the other day.
“Environment-friendly light aloof when Atlético will extensive with one voice final ordinances for Julián Álvarez.”
Via Chelsea bundle to indication Omorodion, you could be forgiven for assuming they had imparted upward on landing Osimhen, but this could not be the capsule.
A report from The Athletic cases Chelsea ‘exceptionally re-keyed in the race for the Napoli demonstrator Osimhen this week regardless of unconditionally judgment him out as a chance previously in the window’. They contain.
‘One or two showering gamers are still the priority. Osimhen was nailed off the wishlist a couple of months previously offered that he was reputed too costly.
‘Via irreparable admirers Paris Saint-Germain unwilling to commission Napoli’s querying price, Chelsea have opened upward talks wearing the Serie A bar over a finance endure an selection to acquire.
‘A bargain for Omorodion is individualist of their talks over Osimhen, which are composed for to flourish.’
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Trapped Offside at the aggravatingly same time claim Chelsea and Napoli are previously in talks as they try to ‘whip out a bargain’ for Osimhen. The report cases the Serie A titans pine at the poorly least two gamers in bazaar.
‘The two bars discern that the elaborations will snag even auxiliary time to dissect offered that of the technical parts of the cure, and there will indisputably not be a resolution before mid-August.
‘Much of the cure’s productivity will trust fund the aligned amount Chelsea have to afford the Nigerian demonstrator.
‘According to CaughtOffside sources wearing competence of the dealings, the Funks wear’t pine to go past €60m, while Napoli have quized for at the poorly least 2 gamers – Romelu Lukaku and either Trevoh Chalobah or Cesare Casadei – as faultlessly as about €80/90m silver.
‘Another meeting owns been prepped in the composed for days to flourish wherein the elaborations take off off, and the mystery niceties are composed for to be nailed down.’
