{"id":625065,"date":"2023-07-10T15:41:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T19:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=625065"},"modified":"2023-07-10T15:41:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T19:41:21","slug":"manchester-united-victor-osimhen-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/07\/10\/manchester-united-victor-osimhen-blow\/","title":{"rendered":"Napoli President Issues Victor Osimhen Update That Will Frustrate Manchester United Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Napoli have no plans to sell striker Victor Osimhen in the summer transfer window, the club&#8217;s president Aurelio De Laurentiis <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1678407472875274246?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has confirmed<\/a>. The Nigerian striker has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2023\/jun\/14\/manchester-united-pull-out-of-harry-kane-chase-tottenham-transfer\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">linked<\/a> with a move to Manchester United, but that looks extremely unlikely now.<\/p>\n<p>[metabet_core_side_odds_tile query=&#8221;soi\/napoli&#8221; size=&#8221;350&#215;300&#8243; site_id=&#8221;metabet-website&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2>Manchester United Learn Victor Osimhen Fate<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Napoli president de Laurentiis: \u201cWe will see Victor Osimhen wearing our shirt next season, that\u2019s for sure\u201d. \ud83d\udd35\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddec<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen if a \u2018more than indecent proposal arrives, we will move on and find another top talent as we did with Kvaratskhelia and Osimhen\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D2GXxG7E3b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/D2GXxG7E3b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1678407472875274246?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>What Napoli President Said About Osimhen\u2019s Future<\/h3>\n<p>The 24-year-old forward had a defining season with the Serie A giants in the 22\/23 campaign, helping them win the Scudetto and scoring 26 goals in 32 appearances in the league &#8211; as well as five in six Champions League games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/07\/09\/manchester-united-really-close-signing-andre-onana\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United Close In on Andre Onana Signing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amid all the speculation around his future, de Laurentiis has insisted that Osimhen will spend at least another year with the Italian side before they can contemplate cashing in on him. He said: &#8220;We will see Victor Osimhen wearing our shirt next season, that\u2019s for sure. Then if a \u2018more than indecent&#8217; proposal arrives, we will move on and find another top talent as we did with Kvaratskhelia and Osimhen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is the most blatant way of stating that the Nigeria international is not up for sale at the moment, and that Napoli will probably demand a huge amount of money to sell him to any other club next year, before using that money sale to sign another promising striker themselves.<\/p>\n<h3>Which Striker Are United Targeting?<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Manchester United Will Line Up Under Erik ten Hag Next Season\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gxysc8j5UJo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Even though it now looks like they can&#8217;t sign the 24-year-old in the summer window, the Red Devils are going to push for a new striker signing in the summer after struggling for goals last season &#8211; scoring the fourth-fewest goals for any side in the top half of the Premier League last season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/07\/09\/bayern-set-for-kim-min-jae-signing\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United Set to Lose Kim Min-jae to Bayern Munich<\/a><\/p>\n<p>United have been linked to multiple strikers, but they are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.in\/football\/story\/_\/id\/37971275\/transfer-talk-man-united-prepare-50m-bid-hojlund\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> to be preparing a bid to sign Atalanta forward Rasmus Hojlund &#8211; who scored 12 goals and provided seven assists across all competitions in the 22\/23 campaign. The Danish striker is a promising youngster, but still not at the level of the goal machine that is the Napoli forward &#8211; whose unavailability this summer could frustrate a lot of Red Devils&#8217; supporters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured Image<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_625070\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-625070\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-625070 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/Napoli-Fans-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"Napoli fans hoisting up a banner of Diego Maradona during a match\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/Napoli-Fans-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/Napoli-Fans-1024x829.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/Napoli-Fans-768x622.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/Napoli-Fans.jpg 1265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-625070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo provided to Wikimedia Commons by: https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Werner100359 CC by SA-4.0: https:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/wiki\/Q18199165<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Napoli have no plans to sell striker Victor Osimhen in the summer transfer window, the club&#8217;s president Aurelio De Laurentiis has confirmed. The Nigerian striker has been linked with a move to Manchester United, but that looks extremely unlikely now. [metabet_core_side_odds_tile query=&#8221;soi\/napoli&#8221; size=&#8221;350&#215;300&#8243; site_id=&#8221;metabet-website&#8221;] Manchester United Learn Victor Osimhen Fate Napoli president de Laurentiis: \u201cWe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4218,"featured_media":625070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18,30,5],"tags":[895,4293],"class_list":["post-625065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-manchester-united","category-news","category-serie-a","tag-napoli","tag-victor-osimhen"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}