{"id":11726,"date":"2024-03-27T23:15:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T23:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.ng\/?p=11726"},"modified":"2024-03-27T23:25:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T23:25:38","slug":"ravanelli-fears-napoli-will-struggle-to-replace-osimhen-when-he-leaves-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.ng\/ravanelli-fears-napoli-will-struggle-to-replace-osimhen-when-he-leaves-next-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravanelli fears Napoli will struggle to replace Osimhen when he leaves next season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former Juventus striker Fabrizio Ravanelli\u00a0is sceptical about Napoli\u2019s ability to go toe-to-toe with the top teams in Serie A when <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ng\/agent-reveals-manchester-uniteds-keen-interest-in-signing-napolis-victor-osimhen\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"11466\">Victor Osimhen<\/a> eventually leaves the Parthenopeans next season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ravanelli, speaking ahead of Osimhen\u2019s likely departure from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SSC_Napoli\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Napoli<\/a> next season, said it will not be easy for the club to replace him when he leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the retired footballer, who has 22 caps for the Italian national team, Napoli will struggle to find a ready replacement for Osimhen when he leaves in the coming months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOsimhen is among the best strikers in the world. He has incredible ferocity and is not afraid of anything. It will not be easy for Napoli to replace him,&#8221;\u00a0Ravanelli\u00a0said, according to\u00a0Napoli Magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Osimhen, who has scored&nbsp;no fewer than 13 goals in all competitions this season for Napoli,&nbsp;is valued at around $130 million by his&nbsp;modest Italian&nbsp;club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports say\u00a0Paris Saint-Germain is in the running and better positioned to pay Osimhen&#8217;s massive $130 million release clause. Arsenal FC is also reportedly trailing London rivals Chelsea in its bid to sign the prolific Nigerian international.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ng\/osimhen-ebuehi-ruled-out-of-super-eagles-friendly-games-against-ghana-and-mali\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"11371\">Osimhen<\/a> is the 2022\u201323 Serie A top scorer for Napoli, who bagged 26 goals en route to winning the Scudetto last season but is most likely set to depart the team at the end of the current campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Juventus striker Fabrizio Ravanelli\u00a0is sceptical about Napoli\u2019s ability to go toe-to-toe with the top teams in Serie A when Victor Osimhen eventually leaves the Parthenopeans next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":11731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11737,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11726\/revisions\/11737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}