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Osimhen ‘might not’ be fit for Napoli-Barcelona

https://football-italia.net/osimhen-might-not-be-fit-for-napoli-barcelona/

Victor Osimhen was in the stands for the draw with Genoa and Walter Mazzarri warns he ‘might not’ be ready to face Barcelona either, as reports emerge of Napoli tension over his fitness.

The striker has not been with his teammates at club level since the end of December, as he flew out to prepare for the Africa Cup of Nations with Nigeria.

He only scored one goal and helped his side reach the Final, where they capitulated 2-1 to the Ivory Coast.

Despite the Final being last Sunday, Osimhen did not return to Naples until late Thursday evening after missing a flight and his first training session was on Friday.

Last season’s Capocannoniere was not even in the squad for today’s 1-1 draw with Genoa and there are reports in Sky Sport Italia, DAZN and Il Mattino claiming that it was Osimhen who asked to be excluded.

However, this does not seem to be any empty gesture, because Mazzarri warned to DAZN that Osimhen “might not” be ready to play against Barcelona in the Champions League on Wednesday either.

“We can only hope he can be ready, but his presence is not certain. According to him and the medical staff, he’s nowhere near fully fit, he has some muscular issues.

“After the Africa Cup of Nations, it would’ve been silly to risk him here and risk losing him for another couple of months. He will train tomorrow and we hope to have him ready for Barcelona.”

Speaking in his role as Sky Sport Italia pundit, journalist Paolo Condò criticised Napoli for not providing Osimhen with a private jet to bring him back to Italy several days ago.

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Jorrel Hato - I’ve mentioned interest from Arsenal in Jorrel Hato multiple times because they’ve been scouting him for months, but it’s also the same for other European top clubs. Hato is also set to sign new deal at Ajax very soon, it’s a matter of final details; and it will include NO release clause, from what I’m told.

Xabi Alonso - Despite links with Bayern Munich as well as Liverpool, I think Alonso deserves a chance in the Premier League, that kind of league is probably the best one for the Bayer Leverkusen boss right now. But for the time being he’s 100% focused on making history at Leverkusen - there’s no time for distractions right now.

Gleison Bremer - Despite some speculation over his future, Bremer signed new deal at Juventus in December, it was just six weeks ago. They love Bremer at Juventus. Still, as always for Italian clubs, things can change if they receive crazy proposals, so let’s wait for the summer and see if some crazy bids comes in.

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Take  De Jong , take Barella that level players not joking around with  another batch of unproven players we need mentality players around which these young players can develop 3,4 players of this caliber will transform the all  squad  but they don't know football building ''super young team'' with system 443 .

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On 18/02/2024 at 16:35, Vesper said:

I told you all so about Rasmus Højlund

he just had to adapt

starting to go beast mode now

has scored in 6 straight, 7 out of 8

Still never a £72m signing so definitely not as if we missed out on a bargain by any stretch of the imagination.

Jackson cost £35m and whilst has been so frustratingly inconsistent has also got 7 PL goals and could have had a lot lot more.

Now if Jackson cost £72m and Hojlund £35m then I could see why people would be bothered.


 

All the talk of Braithwaite from a few pages ago, yes he is an impressive young CB but don’t think we need another young CB. I mean particularly when we have Colwill and Badiashile, both young left footed players still. Silva will be gone in the summer and I would think Wesley Fofana will be in a difficult position if he isn’t fit and healthy enough. Although he was never worth the money either way and has never particularly looked great playing in a flat back 4 either as he used to play in a back 3 with Leicester. 

 

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