Osimhen's future with Galatasaray: the coach of the Turkish team reveals a great secret
Options from different clubs around the world have arrived for the talented Nigerian striker, Chelsea made an offer to sign the Nigerian last summer, but the requests of the Italian management financially were very huge, 150 million euros were requested by the president and owner of Napoli for those who want to sign Osimhen.
Galatasaray's coach Ismael Garcia Gomez, revealed that Chelsea club had efforts to sign the Nigerian striker and that the Saudi club Ahli Jeddah tried to bring the 25-year-old to the Saudi league, Ahli Jeddah's attempts were from 2023 in the summer specifically, Chelsea also tried last summer to include the Nigerian, but The required amount of money that was requested was high.
After losing the Osimhen deal, the parents of Jeddah opted to Ivan Toni from Brentford, After that, Okan Buruk the president of the Turkish club, managed to convince him come to Galatasaray in Istanbul.
“We all know that his summer was a bit shaky, there were a lot of rumors, only that he was definitely not staying in Napoly, But in the last days of [the market] there was an option for us to try. I remember that I was coming from an away match, coach Okan Boruk made the first call with him, when we were about to return to Istanbul" Ismael Garcia Gomez said to BBC.