Napoli star, Victor Osimhen, is reportedly willing to reject a move to Paris Saint-Germain in favour of a Premier League transfer.
The Nigerian international will depart Napoli at the end of the current campaign, according to Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis, despite having signed a new deal with the team in December that included a release clause worth approximately £113 million ($144 million).
Osimhen, 25, has been linked to PSG, Chelsea, and Arsenal.
However, Italian journalist Gianluca di Marzio claims that Osimhen would prefer to play in the Premier League the following season as opposed to going back to Ligue 1.
Napoli is apparently in talks with Chelsea about a cash-plus-player transfer to sweeten a potential deal; Romelu Lukaku might join the Serie A team in addition to the Blues paying a hefty sum for Osimhen.
The former Lille man is also said to be more excited over joining an English top-flight side rather than the Ligue 1 champions.
Since Osimhen swapped Lille for Napoli in the summer of 2020, for a club-record fee of £60 million ($75.2m), he has scored 76 goals in 131 games and helped them to Serie A glory in the 2022-23 campaign – the club’s first league triumph in 33 years.
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However, while transfer discussions continue behind the scenes, Osimhen’s Napoli side take on Bologna in Serie A action on Saturday, before rounding off the season against Fiorentina and Lecce on May 19 and 26 respectively.
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