Here are three identified reasons why Chelsea will not make a move to sign Victor Osimhen in the June 2024 transfer window as initially speculated.
Amidst speculations of his future at Napoli, Victor Osimhen has continued to dominate transfer headlines to date the CAF African Footballer of the Year 2023 has taken centre stage again when it was revealed that Chelsea will reportedly consider another alternative instead of pushing to sign him in the June 2024 transfer window.
In 2023, the news of Chelsea being interested in signing Victor Osimhen broke out on social media with many initially speculating as to if this could be a good move or not. By 2024, the reports were further fueled by statements made by the player about his future at the club.
We initially analyzed why Victor Osimhen will not consider a move to Chelsea but as things stand it has also been revealed that Chelsea is also poised to opt out of the potential move.
For many the question of why Chelsea will opt out of making a transfer move to arguably one of the best strikers in Europe at the moment has been hovering in their minds, but we have also spotlighted 3 key reasons the Blues might avoid such a move for the Napoli forward.
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What is the latest Victor Osimhen Chelsea transfer news?
According to numerous media outlets in their latest transfer news, Chelsea have pulled out of the race to sign Victor Osimhen as their main striker ahead of the 2024/2025 Premier League season. This finally puts to bed initial reports and speculations of the Nigerian completing a move to Stamford Bridge amidst initial reports.
Why will Chelsea not sign Victor Osimhen?
These reports have highlighted three key reasons as to why the move for Victor Osimhen has been ruled out of Chelsea's plans ahead of the June 2024 transfer window. These reasons are:
Victor Osimhen's Injury History
Following the current concerns of Chelsea in the injury department, the Board have reportedly ruled out the option of signing Victor Osimhen who also possesses a long wrap sheet of injuries. Here is a timeline of Victor Osimhen's injuries at Napoli:
- 23/24 Season:
- Muscle fatigue (May 13, 2024): 12 days, missed 1 game.
- Muscular problems (Mar 13, 2024 - Mar 17, 2024): 4 days, missed 1 game.
- Fitness issue (Feb 15, 2024 - Feb 18, 2024): 3 days, missed 1 game.
- Abdominal problems (Feb 6, 2024): No missed games.
- Hamstring muscle injury (Oct 13, 2023 - Nov 24, 2023): 42 days, missed 6 games.
- Muscle fatigue (Aug 2, 2023 - Aug 7, 2023): 5 days, no missed games.
- 22/23 Season:
- Adductor injury (Mar 28, 2023 - Apr 15, 2023): 18 days, missed 4 games.
- Hamstring muscle injury (Sep 8, 2022 - Oct 10, 2022): 32 days, missed 7 games.
- 21/22 Season:
- Muscular problems (Apr 6, 2022 - Apr 8, 2022): 2 days, no missed games.
- Broken cheekbone (Nov 21, 2021 - Jan 14, 2022): 54 days, missed 13 games.
- Calf strain (Oct 29, 2021 - Nov 5, 2021): 7 days, missed 2 games.
Victor Osimhen's Transfer Fee
Following Victor Osimhen's Napoli contract extension, Chelsea saw the transfer fee of Victor Osimhen take a huge spike from the initial 80 million plus euros to a fee of over 110 million euros.
This takes things out of a club clearly trying to stick to Financial Fair Play laws following the ongoing scrunity Chelsea is currently under as a result of shocking transfer spendings under the new ownership.
Victor Osimhen's Style of Play
It has also been stated that Victor Osimhen's style of play which revolves around, pace, agility and clinical finishing has been stated as a reason Chelsea will not consider a move for the African Footballer of the Year.
This has been categorised as a half baked reason amongst sports professionals which we also agree with as well.
Chelsea overtime struggled to get a Didier Drogba and Diego Costa esquire type of striker who will be a menace upfront. This is what Victor Osimhen boasts of as a player. The Nigerian international's quality upfront is one clubs search for in strikers today.
What do we think?
As initially stated for a player as ambitious as Victor Osimhen, a move to a struggling side in Chelsea is taking multiple steps away from unlocking your full potential as one of the ebst African strikers to ever grace the field of play. Although Chelsea might be making logical points our opinion is the Blues were never in the race from the onset.
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