Super Eagles’ star, Victor Osimhen is now the 7th most valuable Player In Serie A, the italian league, At €65m
This was disclosed according to the latest transfer market valuation of players in the Italian league, as the Nigerian striker Victor Osimhen’s value has now risen to €65million.
This does not come as a surprise, after the Napoli attacker netted 18 goals in 32 games for the Naples side to record an impressive season.
The forward suffered a cheekbone injury in November last year during a Serie A game against Inter Milan. The injury took him out of action for almost eight weeks and he still went ahead to score 14 goals in the league and helped The Blues secure an automatic Champions League qualification for next season.
Recall that the Lille star was voted the U-23 Best Young Player in Serie A for the 2021/22 season. The ex-Lille hitman scooped the award after beating the likes of Dusan Vlahovic of Juventus and Sassuolo’s Gianluca Scamacca.
The Nigerian is behind Juventus’ January signing Dusan Vlahovic, Inter’s Lautaro Martinez, Matthijs De Ligt, and AC Milan’s Rafael Leao,
With his stunning performance in the just concluded 2020/21 season, the striker’s value increased by €5million, as he was only worth €60 million as at December 2021, the value he had kept for two months.
Osimhen’s current market value is the highest in his football career, and his lowest was €1million; his value at Wolfsburg in 2017.
Osimhen, who is currently in the Eagles camp for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Sierra Leone on Thursday.
