{"id":846748,"date":"2025-05-08T15:30:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T20:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/why-we-refused-to-sign-victor-osimhen-last-summer-trabzonspor-president-ertugrul-dogan\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T15:30:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T20:30:40","slug":"why-we-refused-to-sign-victor-osimhen-last-summer-trabzonspor-president-ertugrul-dogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/why-we-refused-to-sign-victor-osimhen-last-summer-trabzonspor-president-ertugrul-dogan\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we refused to sign Victor Osimhen last summer \u2013 Trabzonspor President Ertu\u011frul Do\u011fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Trabzonspor President Ertu\u011frul Do\u011fan has revealed that thry had a chance to sign Super Eagles striker Victor Osimhen on loan last summer, but it did not work out due to financial restraints, <a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\">Soccernet.ng reports<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last summer, Osimhen was involved is a transfer debacle. The 26-year-old striker was expected to leave Naples for a big club following for impressive season.<\/p>\n<p>Osimhen was linked with many top clubs, especially in the English Premier League. Unfortunately, none of the links materialised, which meant that he had to stay put at Napoli.<\/p>\n<h2>Soccer YOU MAY ALSO LIKE<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/05\/osimhen-fenerbahce.html\">Osimhen to Fenerbahce? 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He is also on course to winning the Super Lig with The Lions.<\/p>\n<p>In a related development, the President of Trabzonspor, Dogan, has revealed that Osimhen could have been their player if they had the finances to outmuscle their rivals Galatasaray.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_142799\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-142799\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/20241122_104654.jpg\" alt=\"Soccer Victor Osimhen celebrates after scoring a goal\" width=\"680\" height=\"340\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-142799\">Victor Osimhen celebrates after scoring a goal [Photo credit\/ Imago]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAgents suggested Victor Osimhen to everyone in Turkey, Dogan said, per<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/aspor\/status\/1920078193169494252\" target=\"_blank\"> A Spor.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were one of the suggested clubs, and the figures were clear. We told them that we, as Trabzonspor, could not give these figures. If we gave 20, Galatasaray would have given 25.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Will Victor Osimhen stay in Turkey beyond this season?<\/h3>\n<p>The have been talks that Galatasaray want to keep Victor Osimhen beyond the end of the campaign. But with his talent and his ambition, only a miracle would make him stay at the club or Turkey beyond this season.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/04\/andy-cole-victor-osimhen-man-united.html\">Super Eagles star has been linked to a lot of top clubs in recent months<\/a>, including teams in the English Premier League, LaLiga, and Serie A.<\/p>\n<p>Osimhen would likely priortitize a transfer to a club in one of the top five leagues in Europe where he can play with the biggest players and feature in the biggest competitions in the world.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Soccer Kelvin Omachonu\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG-20240522-WA0001-150x150.jpg\"  height=\"80\" width=\"80\">\t\t<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/author\/kelvin\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tKelvin Omachonu\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tKelvin Omachonu is a writer with many years of experience covering sports events in Nigeria and abroad. He is fueled by his love for the job, and is dedicated to delivering captivating stories.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/05\/victor-osimhen-trabzonspor-ertugrul-dogan.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Kelvin Omachonu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer Trabzonspor President Ertu\u011frul Do\u011fan has revealed that thry had a chance to sign Super Eagles striker Victor Osimhen on loan last summer, but it did not work out due to financial restraints, Soccernet.ng reports. Last summer, Osimhen was involved is a transfer debacle. The 26-year-old striker was expected to leave Naples for a big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":846749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31617,2005,29917],"tags":[11981,7669],"class_list":{"0":"post-846748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-refused","8":"category-soccer","9":"category-victor","10":"tag-refused","11":"tag-victor"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846748","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=846748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}