Man Utd offer €40m PLUS flop for Victor Osimhen

Carlo Garganese

• Updated: 12 Mar 2025 10:55 GMT
• 3 min read

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Manchester United are ready to offer €40 million plus Rasmus Hojlund for Victor Osimhen.

That is according to CalcioNapoli24 journalist Luca Cerchione, who reports that United have made a swap offer - plus cash - to Napoli to sign Osimhen.

The deal would see Osimhen move to Man Utd, with Hojlund going the other way in addition to a big cash sum.

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Cerchione adds that Napoli will accept €40m as part of the exchange.

He also reports that Napoli coach Antonio Conte is a big fan of Hojlund, who United are ready to sell after two miserable seasons at Old Trafford.

The Dane arrived with big hopes in the summer of 2022 from Atalanta for a fee of up to €85 million. However, he has been a big disappointment and scored just 23 goals in 80 games. This season he has just two Premier League goals.

United are leading the race for Osimhen, but there is strong interest elsewhere from the likes of Arsenal and Juventus.

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The Red Devils will sign a new number nine this summer and Osimhen is their top target.

Osimhen joined Galatasaray last summer on loan for the season from Napoli until June 2025.

It is a dry loan with Galatasaray simply covering his salary from September until June at a cost of €10 million.

Osimhen will leave Napoli permanently in the summer.

The 26-year-old has a release clause in his Napoli contract worth €75 million, for foreign clubs only.

He has enjoyed a fantastic season with Galatasaray, already scoring 22 goals in 28 games in all competitions.

Osimhen will leave Napoli

Osimhen has no future at Napoli after falling out with the club last year.

The attacker had spent the entire summer searching for a new club and sacked his agent when this wasn’t forthcoming.

The 26-year-old had been frozen out of the squad at Napoli, with no chance of being reintegrated under new manager Antonio Conte.

Instead of spending the entire first half of the season training on his own, Osimhen opted to join Galatasaray on loan.

Osimhen saw his relationship with Napoli sour last season, following the TikTok scandal in which the club’s own social media team mocked his penalty miss with Bologna.

Osimhen had a largely difficult season on the pitch, while Napoli endured a disastrous defence of the Scudetto they won in the 2022-23 season as they finished 10th in Serie A.

The Nigerian had been a key player in the Scudetto campaign, scoring 26 league goals in 32 games.