Man Utd drops out of race for Osimhen

… Striker too expensive for Red Devils

It’s a long way back to the top echelons of the Premier League, and Man United’s financial problems have been laid bare as the team can’t afford Napoli’s on-loan hit man, Victor Osimhen.

The 26-year-old hit-man has an astonishing return of 19 goals and five assists in 24 games in all competitions for the Turkish giants (transfermarkt), and is known to be keen to secure a permanent move from Napoli this summer.

According to TeamTalk, his preference would be to go to a Champions League club, so United’s hierarchy would have to be very persuasive in any event.

Notwithstanding that, the outlet also suggest that the Red Devils couldn’t afford the player because of his £200k per week wage demands.

Napoli apparently turned down a summer bid for Osimhen, and it’s also been reported that Man United have made a verbal offer for the player but things haven’t gone any further than that at this stage.

It’s a damning indictment on Sir Jim Ratcliffe and the INEOS board, quite frankly.

In order to give Ruben Amorim the best chance of taking Man United back to where they need to be, it’s clear that players of a certain calibre need to be signed – whatever the cost.

The fact that the club are unable or perhaps unwilling to invest such an amount of money would suggest that, in fact, it’s going to be a long, hard road back to the top of the Premier League and European tree.

It might even eat up Amorim and a successor or two in the process, and things are certainly not going to turn in favour of the club in the short term either.