{"id":12161,"date":"2024-04-05T15:53:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T15:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.ng\/?p=12161"},"modified":"2024-04-05T15:53:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T15:53:20","slug":"psg-leading-chelsea-arsenal-in-race-to-sign-victor-osimhen-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.ng\/psg-leading-chelsea-arsenal-in-race-to-sign-victor-osimhen-report\/","title":{"rendered":"PSG leading Chelsea, Arsenal in race to sign Victor Osimhen &#8212;-Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>French Ligue 1 side Paris Saint-Germain is leading in the race to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ng\/two-clubs-inquire-about-super-eagles-goalkeeper-stanley-nwabali\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"10709\">sign Super Eagles<\/a> and Napoli FC striker Victor Osimhen ahead of EPL sides Chelsea and Arsenal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This report was made known in a publication by Italian media outfit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.corrieredellosport.it\/?refresh_ce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Il Corriere dello Sport<\/a>\u00a0which disclosed that the French club is firming up its move to seal a deal for the striker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The publication claims that PSG are &#8220;getting closer&#8221; to triggering Osimhen&#8217;s \u20ac130 million release clause because they believe he is the best option to replace Kylian Mbapp\u00e9, who is heading to Real Madrid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report comes days after prominent Italian pundit Giovanni Scotto\u00a0also\u00a0disclosed that\u00a0Osimhen\u00a0will join Paris Saint-Germain this summer from Napoli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>READ ALSO:<\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ng\/victor-boniface-cant-wait-to-return-for-bayer-leverkusen-xabi-alonso\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em><strong>Victor Boniface can\u2019t wait to return for Bayer Leverkusen \u2014Xabi Alonso<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scotto, who made the disclosure\u00a0in a chat with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.calcionapoli24.it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CalcioNapoli<\/a>,\u00a0said that\u00a0Osimhen\u00a0will move to PSG despite strong interest from Chelsea and Arsenal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also added that the French club is in a favourable position to land the services of the talented striker, as they expect him to replace Kylian Mbappe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDe Laurentiis was reassured:\u00a0Osimhen\u2019s 120 million will come, I believe, from Paris Saint Germain,\u201d Scotto told Calcio Napoli via Area Napoli.<br><br>\u201cThis money will compensate for the lost Champions League revenues and partially those from the Club World Cup.\u201d\u00a0The sports commentator noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French Ligue 1 side Paris Saint-Germain is leading in the race to sign Super Eagles and Napoli FC striker Victor Osimhen ahead of EPL sides Chelsea and Arsenal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":12162,"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\/12161"}],"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=12161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12163,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12161\/revisions\/12163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}