Hopefully we recoup enough of his transfer fee.
In other news, water is wet.
I for one am shocked that the bloke who barely kicked a ball for us since Christmas is likely to be leaving us.
Next I’ll be hearing Chiesa is going back to Italy on loan with no obligation to buy clause…
I wholeheartedly endorse this gif. The more Cornetto Trilogy on here the better.
Good luck to Darwin Nunez, wherever he ends up.
Like everyone else, I’m wondering how much, and who else we might bring in.
No loan + buy options for Napoli please. Either stump 70 million pounds or get lost. Thats a horrible club to deal with when it comes to transfers. Italian clubs are generally skint.
Yeah has to be a fee and off the books I don’t mind taking a loss on him. I doubt we will get 70m and if we do I’ll be shocked.
I’d imagine we might get that if he goes to Saudi, if he’s pushing for Italy or Spain then we’re probably looking at a lesser fee alright. Either way, just want him gone at this stage. No ill feelings towards him, but it just hasn’t worked out for him at Liverpool and a move is best for everybody.
They did bank a healthy fee for that Georgian lad, whose name I’m not going to try to spell, who went to PSG in January.
And if Osimhen goes that’ll raise them a few quid too. If he goes to Saudi that may well stop Darwin going there. If he stays in Europe somewhere I reckon that increases the chances we see Darwin go to Saudi instead.
Either way, good luck to the guy. It’s a shame it didn’t work out but a fresh start for all is needed.
what do you think of a swap deal for Nunez and Osimhen? Best in Europe?? That would be like Salah - 25 goals + Osimhen - 20 goals + Wirtz - 20 goals + Left Wing - 20 goals. Thats like 85 goals guaranteed 
Osimhen
Diaz/Gakpo Wirtz Salah
By all accounts this guy will fail the “no dickheads policy” with flying colours.
I doubt the stories that we would take Osimhen.
But we’ll see.
I’m curious to see other names that might come out, other than Isak (very unrealistic now, could do another season at Newcastle), Ekitike, etc.
There must be a few more (but stuff doesn’t leak too much from our club, which is good), that might also be for a bit later in the window.
I’ve been on the Ekitike bus if Darwin is sold, but the possibility of Osimhen is giving me pause for thought. If Napoli want Nunez, possibly Chiesa too, it might engineer a win-win if we get Osimhen in exchange.
The no dickhead thing is often touted, but I don’t know if that applies to Osimhen. My take, from afar, is that they wanted the Saudi dough for him and he didn’t want to go, so at the last minute he was bundled out the door on loan to Galatasaray.
This part may be lost in translation, but I think there was some racism from the club, or at the least, something tone deaf that was racially insensitive. Can’t remember the details though, but I don’t think it was due to Osimhen kicking off, or being a dickhead.
The one thing that might end it is his salary expectations. I’m not sure what they are, but numbers I’ve seen attached to him are a bit eye-watering.
He is fast, strong, skillful, and he scores a good amount of goals. There’s a lot to like. Maybe with Osimhen at 26 Slot might prefer the younger 22 year old Ekitike, so he can shape him a bit more. The fee looks too high for someone who still needs to improve, but that might be the cost of doing business with other suitors waiting in line to pay them the money. I would imagine the wages will be a lot less than Osimhen, and that is something the club looks at closely, whereas fans often look at the transfer fee.
Good luck to Darwin Nunez, no matter where he ends up. He has all the athletic gifts in the world and I really wanted him to succeed here, but he has fallen short of what we need and hasn’t scored enough goals, so a parting of the ways looks on the cards.
Yeah similar to my take on Osimhen, I don’t really get why people seem to think he has a bad attitude. Entirely possible I’ve missed something though and happy to stand corrected.
Osimhen in for Darwin seems like a crazy upgrade.
He’s an African player who got into a protracted and public fight with his team owner and the default framing is he is a money grabbing mercenary destabilizing his team in the interest of squeezing the club for as much money as possible. People only need to hear that framing once for to become the accepted wisdom for what he’s like. The fact he was linked to Saudi clubs makes the narrative even easier to sell, despite it being Napoli pushing that because they thought was where the high priced fee they had already banked on was going to come from.
He then fell out with the club because their SM team publicly mocked him on the official account for missing a penalty and then the fans started racially abusing him, and he was the one who criticized for reacting negatively. Rather than try to smooth it over the cunt of an owner tried to use it to force him out knowing he had just put a sizeable clause in his new contract, and even went as far as to buy Lukaku before he’d even sold Osimhen.
Good info, cheers.
Osimhen doesn’t fail the stupid, shouldn’t exist “no dickheads” policy. De Laurentiis just has big hands, and he’s controlled the narrative.
Do you trust Aurelio de Laurentiis?
Do you trust John William Henry the Second?
These are questions that will keep us all tossing and turning all night long.