Here are the names of the top European football clubs that Victor Osimhen can potentially join in the summer transfer window.
In recent months, there has been much speculation about whether Nigeria international Victor Osimhen will leave Italian Serie A side Napoli in the summer transfer window.
Let’s see where the 2022-23 Serie A top scorer could play next season despite a recent contract extension until June 2026.
Which team will Victor Osimhen join if he leaves Napoli in the 2023 summer transfer window?
It’s hard to say which team Victor Osimhen will join if he leaves Napoli in the 2024 summer transfer window because stories in the media over the past few months have linked him to several clubs.
However, the teams that keep getting mentioned more than any others include the following:
- Team: Chelsea. League: English Premier League. Average odds: 9/1 (fractional), 10.00 (decimal), +900 (American/moneyline). IPR (implied probability rate: 10.00%
- Team: Arsenal. League: English Premier League. Average odds: 11/1 (fractional), 12.00 (decimal), +1,100 (American/moneyline). IPR (implied probability rate: 8.30%
- Team: Al-Hilal, Al-Nassr. League: Saudi Pro League. Average odds: 12/1 (fractional), 13.00 (decimal), +1,200 (American/moneyline). IPR (implied probability rate: 7.70%
- Team: Paris Saint-Germain. League: French Ligue 1. Average odds: 14/1 (fractional), 15.00 (decimal), +1,400 (American/moneyline). IPR (implied probability rate: 6.70%
Some of the other clubs that have also been suggested but are much less likely to land the services of Osimhen are Manchester United, Manchester City, Real Madrid, Tottenham Hotspur, Liverpool, Milan, and Barcelona.
Although these premier league odds for which team Osimhen might join are accurate at the time of writing, they are subject to change at any time.
Can Napoli win the 2023-24 Serie A campaign?
It’s not looking very good at all for Napoli, who are currently in ninth place in the league. After 23 games played, Napoli have just 35 points, having won 10 games, drawn five, and lost eight times. The defending champions have scored 32 goals and conceded 27, which gives them a +5-goal difference.
The quickest, easiest, and most accurate way to find out if Napoli can win the league would be to look at the latest Serie A outright winner odds on trusted iGaming sites.
For example, right now, you will see that Napoli don’t really stand a chance of winning. They are currently only the sixth odds-on favourite team to win Serie A outright this season.
To win the league outright, you are currently looking at terrible odds of around 500/1 (which is 501.00 in decimal odds and +50,000 in American/moneyline odds), meaning they only have a 0.20% implied probability rate of winning.
In comparison, the odds-on favourites to win the league, Inter Milan (who are currently sitting at the top of the table), are currently priced, on average, at around 1/4 (1.25, or -400), with a whopping 80.00% IPR.
A much safer bet (although no bets are ever guaranteed to win, don’t forget) would be for Napoli to finish the season in the top four. For this particular betting market, you’re currently looking at average odds of around 3/1 (4.00, or +300) with a 25% IPR.
Final thoughts
There’s a very good chance that Osimhen will leave Napoli at the end of the season, although nothing is set in stone yet.
His stay at the Stadio Maradona seems unlikely, as recently confirmed by club President Aurelio De Laurentiis, and a move to the Premier League seems the most likely for the serial Nigerian goal-scorer. Ligue 1 giants PSG have also emerged as contenders for the 25-year-old forward as the French side are preparing for life after Kylian Mbappé who is expected to join Real Madrid on a free transfer.
Osimhen will soon return to Napoli after an AFCON campaign that saw his Nigeria side go all the way to the Final, losing to Roma‘s Evan N’Dicka. Osimhen scored just one goal in seven appearances in the tournament, delivering three assists. Despite his disappointing goal tally at AFCON, Napoli are expected to demand his full release clause worth €120-130m to let the striker leave in the summer.