Chelsea are ‘studying a strategy’ to get a discount on Napoli star Victor Osimhen, with a meeting scheduled this week.
La Gazzetta dello Sport cover the striker today and Chelsea’s efforts to bring down his price tag ahead of the summer transfer window.
Two reports yesterday made it clear that Chelsea were still very much in the mix for Osimhen, explaining that they had planned a summit this week to discuss a €100m move.
Gazzetta pick up on that and explain Napoli are already looking at Feyenoord’s Santiago Gimenez as a replacement for Osimhen, who is being targeted by Chelsea and Paris Saint Germain.
However, they are first ‘studying a strategy’ to get to the Nigerian and weighing up the possibility of including a player in the deal to lower the cash part of the negotiation. In other words, they want to try and bring his price tag down and get themselves a discount.
Napoli are aware of the interest and moving themselves, eyeing up Gimenez and also Lille’s Jonathan David as replacements in what should be a big summer of change given their poor title defence this season.
Their plan is to heavily reinvest the money they get from Osimhen around the squad to strengthen it in several areas and so it seems unlikely they will be willing to offer any discounts or bring that release clause figure down.
Chelsea are going to try either way and that summit this week could be the one in which the two parties lay out their terms and see where they can go from there.
