Victor Osimhen has joined Galatasaray on a permanent transfer from Napoli.
The 26-year-old spent the final season on loan in the Turkish league, becoming a member of them in September 2024 after signing a season-long loan deal from the Serie A side.
Osimhen has signed a four-year contract with the Istanbul-based membership. In accordance with Galatasaray, the two football clubs agreed on a price of € 75 million (£64.8m; $85.6m), with Napoli retaining a ten percent sell-on clause as part of the deal. Galatasaray additionally added that the striker would earn a wage of €15m with a loyalty bonus of €1m.
The striker scored 37 goals throughout 41 appearances for the club together including six in their Europa League campaign, and helped them retain the Turkish Super Lig title.
The Nigerian had entered the ultimate year of his contract at Napoli, having most recently signed a contract extension in December 2023.
Last summer, Napoli signed Romelu Lukaku to replace Osimhen as their starting No. 9 following the appointment of Antonio Conte as head coach, whereas Italy worldwide striker Lorenzo Lucca joined on loan from Udinese.
Chelsea had been one of many teams desirous about Osimhen last summer, however failed to come to an agreement in last year’s transfer window, whereas Saudi Professional League club Al Ahli additionally labored on a deal earlier before signing Ivan Toney from Brentford.
Osimhen began out within the Final Strikers Academy in his residence metropolis of Lagos before becoming a player of German club Wolfsburg in January 2017, making his debut in May of that year.
He was loaned out to Belgian Professional League club Charleroi for the 2018-19 season and had a fruitful spell, scoring 20 goals in 36 games. Charleroi activated their possibility to purchase Osimhen completely at the end of the campaign, although he moved to Lille in August 2019.
After scoring 18 goals in his sole season in France, Osimhen joined Napoli in 2020, where he scored 76 goals and 18 assists throughout 4 seasons for the Italian club.
He performed a key role in Napoli’s historic 2022-23 Serie A title win, their first in 33 years, by scoring 31 goals in all competitions before netting 17 times for the Italian membership in 2023-24.
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, another star of Napoli’s 2022-23 title-winning marketing campaign, joined Paris Saint-Germain in a permanent deal in January.
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