Now the rumor is Nunez plus Chiesa and cash in a swap deal for Victor Ohsimhen.
I’m not against this deal. We just need to get rid of Nunez, he’s a square peg for a round hole as far as our striker position goes.
Feck off Napoli. 64.2m release clause and 59m for Nunez, so we’ll entertain paying you in the region of 5m. If you also want Chiesa you will have to pay at least 10m to have him back. Otherwise feck off and go waste another clubs time.
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I think we’d cut our losses on Nunez, but not to the point we go against all our principles around not being taken for mugs in the transfer market.
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Also, I seem to recall a few stories about him having a bit of a disruptive personality and caused a bit of trouble within the squad, hence they have actively tried to offload him to Chelsea, which fell through, Saudi, Turkey and now they think they can milk us to help them get rid of their problem.
As @dalglish so eliquently said, Fuck off Napoli
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That story originates from the interview given by the owner/director of Radio Kiss Kiss from Napoli, it’s a few days old. They are Napoli’s mouthpiece and they spread the information that benefit their club.
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Letters never combined in such a way before…
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A direct swap to Napoli for osimhen with some difference in transfer value between the release clause and Nunez’s perceived value might be okay.
Hopefully Atletico come up with a good offer so that Nunez gets his due asking price.
As far as the article goes , if De Laurentis wants to take undue advantage, fuck him. He’s got Osimhen on a 1+1 year contract left. Best of luck trying to sell him when no club comes in for him.
If that happens, please refrain from telling me that swap deals exist!
Because if you do there will be a bitter battle and @ZinedineBiscan will ban both of us…
And…I’m confident it won’t happen 
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Do we even want Osimhen ?
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I’m not campaigning for him to be our no1 choice (I still favour one of Isak or Ekitike), but if we did bring him in I’d be pretty pleased with it.
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I would add Alvarez as a better choice
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Don’t ban me as I don’t want to get into a discussion here.
Alvarez is the better choice by far but he’s not shown any inclination to leave Atletico.
All things considered including Isak’s price and his injury history.
I think we are stuck with Ekitike.
Not sure we’d want to have Osimhen. It’s nothing to do with his behaviour. But he’s going to be what 26 if and when he joins Liverpool ? That much of money being invested , I’d rather if it means we have someone younger.
But is he actually available?
Just not sure why we aren’t in for Goncalo Ramos. He seems a solid 2 choice CF considering we would need to replace Jota at some point too.
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I mean he’s like 1 year older than Isak, not a big deal, and half the price. It’s probably the wages.
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I do think we are too late for Isak fwiw. That is mostly for his injury prone nature.
But Osimhen is probably not what we are looking for in a CF. He’s an ace goal scorer. But I think we are looking for someone more rounded. Like Alvarez and Isak , the closest in that fit probably is Ekitike.
Any player we get in will have to follow our existing wage system.
Osimhen’s wage demands won’t be the reason why we won’t get him.
Gotta disagree with you here, fella. Osimhen is a guaranteed goal-scorer and I think he’d fit in very nicely here. He’s into his prime years and I reckon we’d get 3-4 seasons of 20+ goals from him. He has a good fitness record and I reckon will be right at home at the highest level. He’s the closest thing to a sure bet in the CF market this year, all of the others have major question marks over them.
Ekitike might be younger, but his frame is more slight and he’s had a grand total of one half-decent season in the German league. Big risk at the prices quoted. Osimhen has proven he can do the job over multiple seasons, if he’s available in a deal that also sees us shift Nunez, then I think we need to do that deal.
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Not sure. He was linked at one stage
I think that was just wishful thinking 
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