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Victor Osimhen wants out of Napoli. I don’t know if this is clear to everybody else, but I’ve suspected it for a while, and this week’s TikTok fiasco has only confirmed my suspicions. If you haven’t heard the story, this week’s soccer drama involves Osimhen taking offense to a video Napoli’s official TikTok account posted.
I have not seen the video. I cannot speak to what was in it. From what I’ve been told, it was a video of Osimhen asking an official for a penalty, as players often do, and then missing the penalty. Osimhen didn’t appreciate it and was so offended that his agent released a public statement threatening a lawsuit against the team.
The video had already been removed, but it didn’t stop the controversy, particularly when Napoli was already off to a slow start under new manager Rudi Garcia, and Osimhen was visually upset with Garcia for being subbed off in the same match he missed the penalty. Napoli has since issued a public apology to Osimhen, and I’m assuming it has fired or at least reprimanded whoever is running the team’s social media accounts.
Anyway, it’s all stupid, but it’s clear to me that Osimhen has been draping the crepe for an exit. Napoli has been trying to sign him to an extension for a while, and even though there were multiple reports about how close it was to being completed in August, it hasn’t been signed. This after a summer full of reported interest in Osimhen from clubs around Europe, though Napoli publicly said they never received an offer lucrative enough to accept. I don’t know about you, but any time there are reports of the world’s wealthiest teams being interested, but the team that has never been shy about selling its stars when the money is right says there weren’t significant enough offers, I default to assuming the agent is floating those rumors.
Combine those rumors with the lack of signature on a new contract, and then the threat of a…
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