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I said the exact same thing and was downvoted into oblivion with people saying I said Osimhen would flop. Realistically we cant afford him due to our transfer budget and FFP. Also most people who say get him dont watch him play in Serie A, I personally believe a Toney would be a better option with the added benefit of having PL experience. Osihmen would be an upgrade to Jesus but we dont need another player with that style of play we need a clinical finisher, 1 touch 1 goal type of player.
Osimhen’s finishing is somewhat overrated imo and its kind of understandable if you don’t watch Serie A and judge his finishing purely based on stats/highlights.
I don’t exactly know how to put this into words but Osimhen is the kind of player who would miss 2/3 chances in the first 80 minutes and then parry 2 back to back chances in the next ten minutes.His numbers look good over the course of a season and he is obviously a fantastic player,but I wouldn’t call him a clinical finisher( atleast not in the same level as say a Kane/peak RVP).I think he is a great player,with great physical and technical qualities, capable of some fantastic finishing but at the same time can be a bit erratic with his finishing as well.
For a team like Napoli who create a fair bit,he is wonderful to have but I don’t know if he would be worth the price we would have to pay, playing in our system.We don’t create as much from open play(read somewhere that we are something like 11th in the league for chances created from open play and I would imagine Napoli are a lot better at creating just from watching their games, although I haven’t checked the numbers),we don’t go Gung-ho on the counter and there is barely any space to run in behind given the low blocks we face every week.There are obviously other qualities to him that we could absolutely use like his strength,arial ability and movement in the box etc and I absolutely wouldn’t complain if we sign him,but at the end of the day,I just don’t think its worth the 120m or whatever we would have to pay Napoli.