{"id":847479,"date":"2025-05-11T16:13:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T21:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/11\/ex-besiktas-forward-admits-galatasaray-have-a-chance-of-keeping-osimhen\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T16:13:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T21:13:01","slug":"ex-besiktas-forward-admits-galatasaray-have-a-chance-of-keeping-osimhen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/11\/ex-besiktas-forward-admits-galatasaray-have-a-chance-of-keeping-osimhen\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Besiktas forward admits Galatasaray have a chance of keeping Osimhen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Former Besiktas and Turkish forward, Nihat Kahveci, has revealed the love and support the Galatasaray fans have for Victor Osimhen might play a huge role in getting him to stay at the club, <a href=\"https:\/\/Soccernet.ng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soccernet.ng<\/a> reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old has been impressive since joining Okan Buruk&#8217;s side on loan from Napoli in September, scoring 33 goals and providing seven assists in 37 games across all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Osimhen&#8217;s brilliant loan spell has seen him garner huge interest from several clubs across Europe and the Middle East, but Galatasaray are interested in keeping him permanently as well, although they&#8217;ll struggle to pay his release clause.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_155413\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155413\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/04\/imago1060403231-1024x683.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-155413\">Victor Osimhen controls the ball during the Turkish Super Lig match between Besiktas and Galatasaray at Tupras Stadium in Istanbul on March 29 , 2025. [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><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/05\/osimhen-chelsea-manchester-united.html\">Top European club set to usurp Chelsea, Manchester United by tabling \u20ac85m Osimhen bid<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/05\/victor-osimhen-transfer-super-eagles-man-united.html\">Victor Osimhen transfer update: Super Eagles star drops hint amid \u201ctalks\u201d with Man United<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_154355\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154355\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/imago1060149413-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-154355\">Victor Osimhen during the Men FIFA World Cup qualifiers match between Rwanda and Nigeria at Amahoro Stadium on March 21, 2025 in Rwanda. [Photo Credit\/ Imago].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kahveci, weighing in on the transfer situation of the former LOSC Lille man, revealed Osimhen is adored in Istanbul, and the emotion of the fans could trickle into his transfer decision when the season ends.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><span><span>\u201cGalatasaray fans even started to ask me about Osimhen. I think the possibility of keeping Osimhen is a success because the player is a very big name. Also, the teams that want him are very big,\u201d the ex-Real Sociedad forward said in quotes revealed by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.habersarikirmizi.com\/galatasaray-haberleri\/nihat-kahveci-galatasaraylilar-bana-bile-sormaya-basladi-bence-h26614.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Haber Sariki Mizi<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_153671\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-153671\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/osimhen-galatasaray-celebrates-scoring-goal-978588582.webp\" alt width=\"620\" height=\"413\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-153671\">Victor Osimhen in action for Galatasaray. [Photo Credit\/ X].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While all fingers point to a move away from Galatasaray for Osimhen this summer, he could write his name into history at RAMS Park by winning the Turkish Super Lig and the League Cup.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img alt=\"Soccer Adefolahan Guerreiro\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0f64d35abfd960f4a5a400c4bb517f7f0be6c48b655560fbdd37e59d9fc9ca58?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\/05\/besiktas-galatasaray-kahveci-osimhen.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Adefolahan Guerreiro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer Former Besiktas and Turkish forward, Nihat Kahveci, has revealed the love and support the Galatasaray fans have for Victor Osimhen might play a huge role in getting him to stay at the club, Soccernet.ng reports. The 26-year-old has been impressive since joining Okan Buruk&#8217;s side on loan from Napoli in September, scoring 33 goals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":847480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143840,3704,2005],"tags":[143839,5869],"class_list":{"0":"post-847479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ex-besiktas","8":"category-forward","9":"category-soccer","10":"tag-ex-besiktas","11":"tag-forward"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847479","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=847479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}