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Victor Osimhen

Why is he being branded a greedy man for not taking a paycut? Never heard of a footballer taking a paycut in his prime, and it’s one thing taking a paycut to play for a Barca/Madrid.

We are not talking a 10-20% paycut here, we are talking a 60% pay cut. Should his wage demands even drop by 40%, there will be a long queue of teams with us at the back.
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He's not taking a pay cut, he's taking a salary that would be in line with his experience and worth. No different from Sancho having to take a lower salary if he wants out of Utd. He's the one that wants to move clubs, and no one is paying £400k a week for a striker that's never played in a top league and only two elite goal scoring seasons under his belt at 27.

Our contracts are incentive based. If he was as good as he clearly thinks he is, he'd make the money he deserves with the goals he scores for the club.

 
I rate the guy but he's going to go wherever pays him the most money, Mikel can go on about how Osimhen loves Chelsea and all we have to do is make a phone call etc, but at the end of the day he wants to make as much money as possible, I suspect even if if we matched Napoli's wage and a Saudi club offered him an extra £50k a week he'd take that.

 
I rate the guy but he's going to go wherever pays him the most money, Mikel can go on about how Osimhen loves Chelsea and all we have to do is make a phone call etc, but at the end of the day he wants to make as much money as possible, I suspect even if if we matched Napoli's wage and a Saudi club offered him an extra £50k a week he'd take that.
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C’mon now; we had and have no intentions of getting close to his Napoli’s wages. Let’s be honest the contract we put before him in the summer was insulting, I personally would have blocked the club’s number. Everyone knows he is on €22m gross which is about €10m net at Napoli. Offering him €4m net in wages, €4m in performance bonuses, and €2m tied to CL qualification is just wild.

I am glad they have come out early this year and said they are only going after players that fit in with £150k/w wage ceiling. That discounts Isak, Osimhen, Gyokeres and most likely Sesko who is currently on about £95k/w at Leipzig. That leaves Delap, Ekitike and any other CF at the bottom of the barrel. We surely aren’t getting a 20 league scorer.

 
C’mon now; we had and have no intentions of getting close to his Napoli’s wages. Let’s be honest the contract we put before him in the summer was insulting, I personally would have blocked the club’s number. Everyone knows he is on €22m gross which is about €10m net at Napoli. Offering him €4m net in wages, €4m in performance bonuses, and €2m tied to CL qualification is just wild.

I am glad they have come out early this year and said they are only going after players that fit in with £150k/w wage ceiling. That discounts Isak, Osimhen, Gyokeres and most likely Sesko who is currently on about £95k/w at Leipzig. That leaves Delap, Ekitike and any other CF at the bottom of the barrel. We surely aren’t getting a 20 league scorer.
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Insulting in what regard? We offered him what he's worth. Just because Napoli made the mistake of giving him too much money doesn't mean any other club. If he was an elite footballer he's be staying in Europe and have clubs lining up for him.

 
Insulting in what regard? We offered him what he's worth. Just because Napoli made the mistake of giving him too much money doesn't mean any other club. If he was an elite footballer he's be staying in Europe and have clubs lining up for him.
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I feel like Osimhen is a sign of player power not being as strong as it once was. He may be a good striker, but if he wants to play at an elite level, he has to lower his wage demands. If he doesn't, then clubs will be like "oh well, off to Saudi you go then" and they will move on to somebody else.

 
I feel like Osimhen is a sign of player power not being as strong as it once was. He may be a good striker, but if he wants to play at an elite level, he has to lower his wage demands. If he doesn't, then clubs will be like "oh well, off to Saudi you go then" and they will move on to somebody else.
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And whilst it remains early days there appears to be no returning as yet. Don't get me wrong the players need never do another thing, and a lot of the players are nearing the end of their careers anyway but the increase in the profile of the Saudi league has not yet occurred and a number of players are now out of the limelight, possibly never to return.

But, of course, you can't deny them the bag, it's life changing of course.

 
This one has always struck me as an obvious failure if he comes here. Don't know why. But I can just easily see him being sh*t for us.

 
If we sign another first team striker it will be that Ekitike guy from Frankfurt, not either of the Victor's in my opinion.

 
This is Aguero part 2 but worse as we don't have a Drogba.

Guaranteed if he goes to Arsenal or Utd he will score many goals whilst we waste 100s of millions on average striker after average striker.

 
Sometimes the best signings are the ones you don’t make. So happy we’ve managed to avoid this Lukaku regen.

 
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