{"id":838708,"date":"2025-04-03T12:12:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T17:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/chelsea-manchester-united-get-massive-boost-as-osimhen-shuns-serie-a-move\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T12:12:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T17:12:04","slug":"chelsea-manchester-united-get-massive-boost-as-osimhen-shuns-serie-a-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/chelsea-manchester-united-get-massive-boost-as-osimhen-shuns-serie-a-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea, Manchester United get massive boost as Osimhen shuns Serie A move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal are now on alert after Super Eagles striker, Victor Osimhen, turned down an offer from the record Serie A champions, <a href=\"https:\/\/Soccernet.ng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soccernet.ng<\/a> reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old forward is on the radar of several clubs, ranging from the top five leagues in Europe to the oil money teams in the Saudi Pro League.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s been excellent during his loan spell with Galatasaray, but as the summer beckons, the big question about the next club he\u2019ll play for continues to ring. One thing is clear, he\u2019s not playing for Napoli.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_154288\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154288\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250321_203644-1024x793.jpg\" alt=\"Soccer Victor Osimhen and Ademola Lookman in action for the Super Eagles of Nigeria\" width=\"1024\" height=\"793\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-154288\">Victor Osimhen and Ademola Lookman in action for the Super Eagles of Nigeria against Rwanda. [Photo Credit\/ Imago].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><strong>Get Our Sports News First \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VagMHLcA89MZvw0Btc21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Join Our WhatsApp Channel Now!<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/03\/denmark-manchester-united-nigeria.html\">Denmark star asks Manchester United to recognise his Nigerian roots<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/03\/nigeria-italy-juventus-leao.html\">New Leao \u2013 Highly-rated Juventus attacking youngster ditches Nigeria, dreams of Italy call-up<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/03\/yamal-williams-skales-spain.html\">Watch: Lamine Yamal and Nico Williams vibe to Skales\u2019 shakebody on duty with Spain<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_141245\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141245\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/s-67d3e4c76fe39c8585d8a492abcb7a98fb24d943.jpg\" alt width=\"600\" height=\"340\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-141245\">Osimhen in action for Galatasaray. [Photo Credit\/ X].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caughtoffside.com\/2025\/04\/02\/victor-osimhen-transfer-arsenal-utd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Caught Offside<\/a><\/strong>, the former Napoli forward turned down an offer from Juventus. Osimhen thanked the Bianconeri for their interest in him but made it clear he\u2019s not entertaining a move to the Old Ladies.<\/p>\n<p>As per <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.juvefc.com\/exclusive-in-demand-striker-rejects-juventus-he-prefers-premier-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Juve FC<\/a><\/strong>, the Super Eagles star has made it clear that his preference is to move to the Premier League, with Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal scouring the transfer market for a prolific striker.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_125796\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-125796\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_20231223_143652-750x500-1.jpg\" alt width=\"750\" height=\"500\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-125796\">Osimhen signing a new deal with Napoli just before the 2024 winter transfer window opened. [Photo Credit\/ X].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>Enzo Maresca\u2019s Chelsea need an upgrade on Nicolas Jackson, and their former coach, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/04\/chelsea-osimhen-champions-league.html\">Roberto Di Matteo<\/a><\/strong> has urged them to consider making a move for Victor Osimhen or Alexander Isak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The pair Di Matteo mentioned are also being considered by Arsenal, while Manchester United are looking for a fresh summer start to a full season under Ruben Amorim.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed Osimhen will be available for about \u00a363m when the transfer window reopens and it\u2019ll be interesting to see the final destination of the 2023 Scudetto winner.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img alt=\"Soccer Adefolahan Guerreiro\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/740e257566cac1cbb2887e0f85afd655?s=80&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g\"  height=\"80\" width=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\">\t\t<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/author\/guerreiro\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tAdefolahan Guerreiro\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAdefolahan is a multilingual journalist and writer at Soccernet Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>With a track record of involvement in College sports, Adefolahan is focused on crafting engaging football content and utilising his language skills and extensive sports knowledge to enhance content accessibility for a global audience.<\/p>\n<p>He has interviewed Nigerian stars like Finidi George, Junior Lokosa, and Abraham Onahi Ogbu.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/04\/chelsea-serie-a-osimhen.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Adefolahan Guerreiro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal are now on alert after Super Eagles striker, Victor Osimhen, turned down an offer from the record Serie A champions, Soccernet.ng reports. The 26-year-old forward is on the radar of several clubs, ranging from the top five leagues in Europe to the oil money teams in the Saudi Pro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":838709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2012,26033,2005],"tags":[15041,8130],"class_list":{"0":"post-838708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chelsea","8":"category-manchester","9":"category-soccer","10":"tag-chelsea","11":"tag-manchester"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}