{"id":256027,"date":"2026-08-03T19:30:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T19:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/chelsea-and-manchester-united-set-to-rival-tottenham-hotspur-for-victor-osimhen\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T19:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T19:30:28","slug":"chelsea-and-manchester-united-set-to-rival-tottenham-hotspur-for-victor-osimhen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/chelsea-and-manchester-united-set-to-rival-tottenham-hotspur-for-victor-osimhen\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea and Manchester United set to rival Tottenham Hotspur for Victor Osimhen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Galatasaray star Victor Osimhen has recently been linked with a move to <a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/topics\/tottenham-hotspur\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Tottenham news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tottenham<\/a> Hotspur with Galatasaray believed to be demanding \u00a365 million for the Nigerian international\u2019s services this summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Ekremkonur\/status\/2083791079346692337\" target=\"_blank\">Ekrem Konur has reported<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/topics\/chelsea\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"Chelsea news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chelsea<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/topics\/manchester-united\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Man Utd news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manchester United<\/a> are also in the mix for Osimhen\u2019s services alongside Tottenham, after the former Napoli marksman performed exceptionally with Galatasaray last season with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.com\/victor-osimhen\/leistungsdaten\/spieler\/401923\/saison\/2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">22 goals and eight assists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Osimhen has long been linked with a <a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/tag\/transfer-rumours\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Transfer rumours\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transfer<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/tag\/premier-league\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"21\" title=\"Premier League\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier League<\/a> but with a relatively lesser asking price than what Napoli were seeking a few years ago, the forward\u2019s acquisition by an English club seems like a very realistic proposition this summer.<\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea &amp; United might drag Osimhen race to the wire<\/h2>\n<p>Besides doing well in the Turkish top division, Victor Osimhen proved his qualities on the biggest stage as he bagged 10 goal contributions in as many <a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/tag\/champions-league\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"20\" title=\"Champions League\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Champions League<\/a> outings for Galatasaray last season.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea\u2019s and Manchester United\u2019s interest in the 28-year-old comes as no surprise as the opportunity to sign a specialist in the box, who excels aerially, physically and has intelligent hold-up play and movement for \u00a365 million is too attractive to let go.<\/p>\n<p>Victor Osimhen is still in the best years of his career and despite Tottenham Hotspur\u2019s supposedly advanced interest in his transfer, the forward might prefer joining a club where he is better placed to challenge for silverware.<\/p>\n<p>Should he join Chelsea, he would be a part of an exciting sporting project under Xabi Alonso, while the Blues would also have two consistent goal-scorers in their team with Joao Pedro possibly playing on the left wing next season if Osimhen joins them.<\/p>\n<p>United might fancy their chances for Osimhen if they can offload Joshua Zirkzee as the player would provide significant competition to Benjamin Sesko up top with his consistent returns, and as they gear up for a return to the Champions League, the Galatasaray ace\u2019s experience in the European Cup would be handy.<\/p>\n<p>With three Premier League clubs chasing his signatures, it will be interesting to see who he picks.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--mvp-post-tags--><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--posts-nav-link--><\/p>\n<div class=\"mvp-org-wrap\" itemprop=\"publisher\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\">\n<div class=\"mvp-org-logo\" itemprop=\"logo\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/new-logo.png\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/new-logo.png\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!--mvp-org-logo--><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Football Talk | Premier League News\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!--mvp-org-wrap-->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/236064\/chelsea-and-manchester-united-set-to-rival-tottenham-hotspur-for-victor-osimhen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galatasaray star Victor Osimhen has recently been linked with a move to Tottenham Hotspur with Galatasaray believed to be demanding \u00a365 million for the Nigerian international\u2019s services this summer. Ekrem Konur has reported that Chelsea and Manchester United are also in the mix for Osimhen\u2019s services alongside Tottenham, after the former Napoli marksman performed exceptionally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6807],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-256027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leagues-cups"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}