Osimhen agrees to join Galatasaray on loan

Victor Osimhen has agreed to join Galatasaray of Turkey on loan from Italian Serie A club Napoli.

Italian transfer expert Fabrizio Romano provided the update in a post he shared on his X account on Monday night.

“Victor Osimhen has accepted to join Galatasaray on loan. Understand Osimhen is now asking for release clause at Napoli to become €75m instead of €130m,” Romano wrote.

“Osimhen also wants a break clause for January 2025 in case top clubs approach him over a winter move. The final points of the deal are being discussed.”

Romano had earlier on Monday afternoon said Galatasaray had agreed to cover € 9 million out of €10m as the salary of Osimhen until the end of the season.

He added that the loan deal agreed with Napoli does not include any buy option or obligation clause.

Napoli manager, Antonio Conte on Saturday said that the club has no plan to reintegrate Osimhen into their squad this season.

Conte said this during the post-match press conference of the Serie A game which saw Napoli defeat Parma 2-1 at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium.

“No player will be reintegrated. Those who are out of the project will remain out of the project. We made our choices and work in one direction all together,” Conte explained.

When the striker signed his new contract in December, the plan was always to sell for the €130m release clause in the summer, but nobody came anywhere near to that figure.

Paris Saint-Germain, Arsenal, Real Madrid and Manchester United all looked elsewhere, while in the final hours of the summer transfer window last Friday, two different deals failed to go through.

According to Italian reports from Sky Sport Italia and Sportitalia, Napoli agreed the fee with Chelsea and Osimhen could not work out the personal terms, offering less than half his current €10m per season salary.

On the other hand, the Nigerian had agreed personal terms with Al-Ahli worth a massive €40m per season, with a relatively cheap release clause to be active from 2026.

Napoli, however, asked for an extra €5m in bonuses on top of the €80m offered. This angered the Saudi Pro League club, who instead turned to Brentford striker Ivan Toney.