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The former Manchester City starlet has scored 12 Premier League goals this term for an Ipswich side for whom a ‘Great Escape’ has felt like fantasy for months now.

On the other side of the coin, Jamie Carragher wants Hugo Ekitike at Liverpool.

While Delap and Ekitike could certainly be moulded into the first line of defence under Slot, there is one ‘Goldilocks’ centre-forward who appears to fall neatly into all three of those categories.

As Romano explains, Victor Osimhen has a £60 million release clause in his Napoli contract.

There is even a chance that the Serie A challengers are willing to accept a lower fee, such is their desire to cut ties with a man loaned out to Galatasaray following a dramatic breakdown in relations at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona.

A breakdown which, it should be said, was more Napoli’s fault than that of the prolific Nigeria international.

So Osimhen, at a maximum of £60 million, should come far cheaper than Ekitike and certainly Isak.

Quite simply, wherever Osimhen goes, an avalanche of goals tend to follow in his wake.

Since the beginning of 2018/19, when he was playing for Charleroi in Belgium, Osimhen has scored 143 goals in 152 club matches.

“With all of this in mind, we can say that Victor is a very dangerous player to play against and a nightmare for certain defenders.

“Osimhen’s pressing is right up there with some of the very best in the world.”

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Stats website Fbref, meanwhile, ranked Osimhen in the 98th percentile for strikers across Europe’s top-five leagues when it came to ‘pressures in the final third’.

But he is a good example [of what a difference one player can make].”

Affordable, prolific, and an excellent leader of the press; As Arne Slot searches for a new Liverpool number nine, Victor Osimhen may be where his finger ends up pointing.


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