{"id":655460,"date":"2025-06-08T12:19:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T16:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=655460"},"modified":"2025-06-08T12:40:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T16:40:56","slug":"victor-osimhen-transfer-saga-al-hilal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/06\/08\/victor-osimhen-transfer-saga-al-hilal\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabrizio Romano Breaking News: Victor Osimhen Shock Decision – Transfer Saga Reignites"},"content":{"rendered":"

The future of prolific Nigerian striker Victor Osimhen has taken another twist, with Al-Hilal prepared to pay the reported \u00a363m to sign the striker from Serie A champions Napoli. However, according to <\/span>Fabrizio Romano<\/span><\/a>, the striker has said no to the Saudi Pro League, with Galatasaray where the Nigerian spent last season on loan, now back in the running. (More to Follow)<\/span><\/p>\n

Victor Osimhen Transfer Saga Takes Another Twist<\/h2>\n

Al-Hilal Ready to Pay But Victor Osimhen Says No<\/h3>\n

The breaking news X post from Romano said: “Victor Osimhen has rejected Al <\/span>Hilal<\/span> proposal. Despite agreement club to club with Napoli for \u20ac75m fee, Osimhen says no to the Saudi Pro League club. Galatasaray will insist <\/span>to sign<\/span> him with race now open again.”<\/span><\/p>\n

It had seemed Osimhen would move to the Saudi Pro League and play for <\/span>Al Hilal<\/span><\/a>, who had made it clear they were prepared to pay the \u00a363m required for his parent club Napoli to sell the striker.<\/span><\/p>\n

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He enjoyed a fantastic season at Galatasaray last year, scoring 37 goals, which came after interest from <\/span>Chelsea<\/span><\/a> failed to materialise. Despite the seeming agreement between Napoli and Al-Hilal, it now appears the player prefers to stay in Europe and has rejected the financial lure of the Saudi Pro League. Chelsea have recently signed Liam Delap and I don’t see them paying that fee or the wages to Osimhen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Victor Osimhen<\/h3>\n

Osimhen is as dynamic as they come. He’s a physical presence who can hold the ball when needed and link the play – but is also always looking to create half a yard to shoot. He’s excellent in the air and has explosive pace, which makes him a winger’s dream.<\/p>\n

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Where the Nigerian ends up next season remains to be seen, but it appears Osimhen still prefers Europe over the bucketloads of cash in Saudi. A stay at Galatasaray appears most likely, with the Al Hilal deal now off the table. Romano’s report says: “Galatasaray will insist to sign him with race now open again.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The future of prolific Nigerian striker Victor Osimhen has taken another twist, with Al-Hilal prepared to pay the reported \u00a363m to sign the striker from Serie A champions Napoli. However, according to Fabrizio Romano, the striker has said no to the Saudi Pro League, with Galatasaray where the Nigerian spent last season on loan, now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":655461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[30,11,7188],"tags":[8611,7787,2118,4293],"class_list":["post-655460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-chelsea","category-rumours","tag-chelsea-transfer-rumours","tag-galatasaray-transfer-news","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-victor-osimhen"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655460","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\/4106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655460"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655470,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655460\/revisions\/655470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}