{"id":854206,"date":"2025-06-08T17:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T22:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/08\/the-victor-osimhen-effect-besiktas-plotting-transfer-for-super-eagles-striker\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T17:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T22:12:07","slug":"the-victor-osimhen-effect-besiktas-plotting-transfer-for-super-eagles-striker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/08\/the-victor-osimhen-effect-besiktas-plotting-transfer-for-super-eagles-striker\/","title":{"rendered":"The Victor Osimhen effect: Besiktas plotting transfer for Super Eagles striker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250606_205056.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img width=\"750\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250606_205056-750x491.jpg\" alt=\"Soccer The Victor Osimhen effect: Besiktas plotting transfer for Super Eagles striker\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   data-full-width=\"900\" data-full-height=\"589\"><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Super Eagles striker Victor Osimhen seems to have made a big impression on Turkish Super Lig clubs after his performances for Galatasaray, as some of the clubs have been linked with different Nigerian players this summer, <a href=\"https:\/\/Soccernet.ng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soccernet.ng<\/a> reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Osimhen&#8217;s loan move to Galatasaray was one of the biggest shockers of last summer transfer window, as he was expected to join a club in one of the top five league in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>But eventually had to move to Turkey after he failed to secure a deal and Napoli yanked him off their plans for the season.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_156899\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156899\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/04\/imago1060539075-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Soccer Victor Osimhen of Galatasaray\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-156899\">Victor Osimhen of Galatasaray (Photo credit)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At Galatasaray, Osimhen was superb, contributing 31 goals and six assists in 34 games to help them win the Turkish Cup and the Super Lig.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Turkish clubs are being linked to more strikers. Paul Onuachu has been heavily linked with a move to Besiktas, and there have been talks about <a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/06\/henry-onyekuru-super-eagles-besiktas.html\">Henry Onyekuru returning to Turkey.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Soccer Besiktas keeping tabs on Super Eagles striker with one goal<\/h2>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/transferfeedcom\/status\/1931570259221160092?t=oyR6yLWkD1GThKYU6aKOyA&#038;s=19\" target=\"_blank\">Transfer Feed<\/a>, Besiktas have started monitoring Arokodare and could try to get him this summer.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_162920\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-162920\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/05\/NS-Announcement-Email-Soccernet-5.png\" alt=\"Soccer  Super Eagles striker Tolu Arokodare\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-162920\">\u2013 Super Eagles striker Tolu Arokodare (photos by Imago)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Genk star is coming off a very big season in Belgium that saw him register 23 goals and seven assists in 45 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Arokodare brilliance has even seen top clubs like Stuttgart and Bayern Munich linked to him, albeit nothing concrete has emerged yet.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old is one of the most expensive striker in the Belgian Jupiler Pro League, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.com\/tolu-arokodare\/profil\/spieler\/683571\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transfermarkt<\/a> valuing him at \u20ac13 million. But Genk would demand far more than that before letting him leave.<\/p>\n<p>The big, strong hitman is great in the air and very good with his feet. So, he would be a great asset for any club. But it remains to be seen if Besiktas will make a move and get him this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Arokodare has four caps for the Super Eagles, with <a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/06\/russia-nigeria-arokodare-super-eagles.html\">one goal to his name.<\/a><\/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\/06\/victor-osimhen-besiktas-super-eagles.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Kelvin Omachonu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer Super Eagles striker Victor Osimhen seems to have made a big impression on Turkish Super Lig clubs after his performances for Galatasaray, as some of the clubs have been linked with different Nigerian players this summer, Soccernet.ng reports. Osimhen&#8217;s loan move to Galatasaray was one of the biggest shockers of last summer transfer window, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":854207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96184,2005,29917],"tags":[96183,7669],"class_list":{"0":"post-854206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-osimhen","8":"category-soccer","9":"category-victor","10":"tag-osimhen","11":"tag-victor"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854206","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=854206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}