{"id":10226,"date":"2022-09-06T14:47:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T14:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=10226"},"modified":"2022-09-06T14:47:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T14:47:58","slug":"osimhen-still-on-manchester-united-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=10226","title":{"rendered":"Osimhen Still On Manchester United Radar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Nigerian forward Victor Osimhen is still on Manchester United\u2019s radar for the January transfer window as they remain determined to get their man, PUNCH Sports Extra reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Osimhen who plays for Napoli was involved in one of the biggest transfer sagas of the 2022\/23 summer transfer window and according to Express Sport, the transfer rumours are prepared to follow him into the winter transfer wndow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Towards the close of the summer window, there was talk of a swap deal between United and Napoli involving the 23-year-old and Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo, but the deal did not happen before Deadline Day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Manchester United were able to sign six players following the arrival of new manager Erik ten Hag.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">However, the Red Devils missed out on a host of other stars, including Osimhen, ahead of Thursday\u2019s deadline, which means Ten Hag could be tempted to delve back into the transfer market in January.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to Express Sports, United do not consider the central striker position adequately strengthened. Their failure to strengthen this position in the window has left Marcus Rashford, Cristiano Ronaldo, Anthony Martial and Anthony Elanga all battling for the position.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So Ten Hag could still go for Napoli striker Osimhen in January. Last month, reports suggested the Italian club wanted \u20ac100m plus Ronaldo in return for Osimhen. And Express Sport reports that the Red Devils may decide that it\u2019s a price worth paying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Osimhen enjoyed a stellar start to the 2022\/23 season, scoring in both opening Serie A matches as Napoli walloped Hellas Verona and Monza via an aggregate score of 9-2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Brought in from Lille in a club record \u20ac70m in 2020, the Nigeria international has experienced good fortunes in Italy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Other potential January window pursuits for the Red Devils include Barcelona man Frenkie de Jong, PSV\u2019s Cody Gakpo, and Juve\u2019s Adrien Rabiot.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian forward Victor Osimhen is still on Manchester United\u2019s radar for the January transfer window as they remain determined to get their man, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. Osimhen who plays for Napoli was involved in one of the biggest transfer sagas of the 2022\/23 summer transfer window and according to Express Sport, the transfer rumours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1370,5397,4202,2400],"class_list":["post-10226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-manchester-united","tag-napoli","tag-psv","tag-victor-osimhen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10227,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10226\/revisions\/10227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}