Renovation of Osimhen: monstrous figures. All the details of the new contract

Naples, 23 December 2023 - The first approach took place close to the championship celebration, complete with a promise from Aurelio De Laurentiis to now have in hand the signature that would have prolonged the winning partnership between Napoli e Victor Osimhen. Then the summer, thanks to the sirens of the very rich woman Saudi Arabia, would have instead brought about a sensational slowdown which in the autumn would have become something very similar to a real crisis: on the pitch but above all off. Evidently it was only a question of seasons, because with the arrival of winter De Laurentiis can finally blurt out the most awaited news by an entire square via social media: the contract with osimhen was renewed up to 2026.

Genius and recklessness: the Osimhen 'package'

 The Nigerian will thus remain in blue for one year longer than deadline set by the previous agreement, the one signed at the time of purchase (much discussed) by Lille. Everything had remained that way, unchanged, for longer 3 years in which really everything happened in the Campania capital: disappointments, hopes, growth, up until the tricolor exploit last June, favored by the mass of goals scored by the man who in a few days will achieve 25 years, the age of a player's football maturity. It may be a coincidence or maybe not, but the long-awaited signature arrives just before both Christmas and his birthday osimhen: two parties to be enriched perhaps by finding continuity in the championship to stay in the wake of the area Champions League and to quickly forget the premature elimination from Coppa Italia by the hand of Frosinone. And say that for once De Laurentiis he renounces the total plot twist by announcing, the evening before to the microphones of TG1, the imminence of the renewal of the player who symbolizes the Scudetto, the one who perhaps today is least resigned to seeing a Napoli practically already out of the fight for the title and even at risk of not even making it into the top 4, as per the minimum seasonal objective. That osimhen It's a well-known fact that he's not exactly a sugar daddy when the sea is stormy. This was also seen after the poker inflicted by Frosinone, with a scene immortalized after the match that went around the world and this time not to garner applause: a guest player who asks for and receives the shirt of osimhen, who instead refuses the opponent's offer as an exchange, as usual after the final whistle. The Azzurri fans themselves have repeatedly savored, even via social media, the excesses of a player with an angular and smoking character. Precisely those social networks that in the early hours of the afternoon before Christmas Eve had announced the most awaited news: the entire package osimhen (goals, assists, sumptuous plays but also, indeed, often questionable attitudes) will remain in the shadow of Vesuvius until 30 June 2026. But will it really be like this?

The monstrous termination clause

In reality, as often happens in the headquarters of Castel Volturno, the reality may be different. This is suggested by the release clause, valid only for the foreign market, with a value between 120 and 130 million included in the new agreement: a now usual exit strategy for De Laurentiis to sell their jewels at monstrous prices without antagonizing the market. At least, as far as the majority of them are concerned, the one aware that the great cycles in blue were born after transfers that were bloody on paper but in reality preparatory to the renewal of the entire squad. Then there is the other faction, the one notoriously more critical towards ADL, which instead in these cases speaks of the systematic dismantling of the project and the Napoli like an ultra-luxury showcase but still ready to be 'looted' by the superpowers, those who are impossible to get close to if every champion is destined to leave. As always, it is possible that the truth is somewhere in the middle but, in the year following the championship triumph, more inclined towards the first thesis. It is no coincidence that many of the protagonists of the championship run a year ago seem almost unrecognizable today. A question of stimuli or perhaps, simply, of having already closed one's cycle in blue with that upward peak (and how high!).

The staggering figures: Osimhen the highest paid in Serie A

One of the few to go beyond this discussion is himself osimhen, who continues to be the same ravenous player in front of opposing goalkeepers and angry (to put it mildly) when you don't win. In short, the famous package mentioned above. In addition to the honors, however, this time the burdens will also rise for the Nigerian: fault (or, depending on your point of view, merit) of the salary from 10 million net which will be offered by the new agreement, which will make the bomber of the Napoli the highest paid player in the Serie A. If until 30 June 2026 or whether, as many people in the Campania capital (and elsewhere) think, only until next summer is currently unknown. What is known is that a long, exhausting soap opera full of twists and turns from start to finish which has seen in Roberto Calenda, the Nigerian's agent, one of the main actors, as well as a tough nut to crack for ADL, accustomed to surrounding himself with interlocutors with less cumbersome personalities. It was the prosecutor's line that prevailed, but perhaps the prosecutor himself De Laurentiis which, as usual under its management, reserves its own ace: whoever wants to ensure the performance of osimhen will have to do it by shelling out no less than 120 million, all strictly cash, to be reached either through the termination clause or in a more traditional way but in any case without leaving room for any negotiation or compensation. It's the method De Laurentiis, the one who was able to shape the best eras of his creation from the great transfers, paradoxically suffering instead when the group was confirmed as a whole. A contradiction, as there are many in the Campania capital, which has laid its foundations in a scudetto-winning scouting network. Well, recently in this sense the machine has jammed and will have to be restarted in case a replacement is needed osimhen. Not an easy task, regardless of the loot that would enter the coffers of the Napoli.

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