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Born in Nigeria, Osimhen began his senior career in Germany at VfL Wolfsburg in 2017.[4] Following a season and a half at the club, he moved to Belgian side Charleroi on loan in 2018–19, before moving to Ligue 1 with Lille, scoring eighteen goals in his sole season with the French club.

In 2020, Osimhen transferred to Serie A side Napoli for a club-record fee of €90 million and won the Serie A Best Young Player award in the 2021–22 season. In the following campaign, he finished as the league's top scorer with 26 goals, a record-high for an African player, as he helped Napoli win a first Serie A title in 33 years. For his efforts, he won the league's Best Striker award, prior to being named Serie A Footballer of the Year a few months later. Osimhen is currently the highest scoring African player in the history of Serie A.[5][6]

Osimhen won the Golden Boot award at the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup, which Nigeria won.[7] He made his senior international debut in June 2017, and played at the Africa Cup of Nations in 2019 and 2023, reaching the final of the latter competition. He is currently the second all-time highest goalscorer of the Nigeria national team.[8] On 29 May 2023, Osimhen was made a Member of the Federal Republic by President Muhammadu Buhari.[9]

Osimhen finished in eight place at the 2023 Ballon d'Or ceremony, becoming the first Nigerian to make the top ten of the French award.[10] He was also named the African Footballer of the Year at the 2023 CAF Awards, the first Nigerian to receive this honour since Nwankwo Kanu in 1999.[11] Victor Osimhen is targeting a move to the Premier League or Juventus once his spell at Galatasaray comes to an end, a source has told ESPN.

Osimhen is expected to move in the summer after spending the season on loan in Turkey from Napoli.

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A source has told ESPN that there is no option built into the agreement for Galatasaray to make the deal permanent and that Osimhen favours a move to England or Italian giants Juventus.

The 26-year-old, who has scored 28 goals in 32 games for Galatasaray this season, is available for €65 million ($71m). He averaged better than a goal every two games during four years at Napoli.

Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal are among the Premier League clubs looking for a striker ahead of next season.

Chelsea have been linked with Osimhen in the past and the Nigerian is on United's transfer shortlist for the summer window.

Sources have told ESPN that Osimhen has been leapfrogged by Ipswich striker Liam Delap on United's list of priorities in part because of his salary. Former Super Eagles and Chelsea midfielder, John Mikel Obi, has admitted he wouldn’t be convincing Victor Osimhen to join the Blues after previous attempts, Soccernet.ng reports.

The 2012 UEFA Champions League winner has been very critical of the Blues’ attack since the start of last season, making it clear that Nicholas Jackson shouldn’t be the starter for Enzo Maresca’s side.

While the Senegalese forward didn’t take kindly to Mikel’s comments, the AFCON 2013 winner has urged the Blues to go all out for Victor Osimhen.

“His hunger when he plays, the ambition when he plays is something that few players have, the arrogance he has, the feistiness he has that you need to be able to succeed in the Premier League as a top striker. So, for me, I can see a great partnership happening.

“I’ve said what I have to say, I’ve done my part. If the club chose not to pursue it, fair enough. The player has so many options. Good luck to him, good luck to Chelsea. If it doesn’t happen, it doesn’t happen,” the former Stoke City man said on the Obi One Podcast.

While Osimhen has several offers in Europe and the Middle East, Mikel would prefer the Napoli loanee joins Chelsea.

“I hope he doesn’t go there [Saudi Pro League]. That was my fight; that was my conversation with him in the summer. I told the kid, ‘Don’t go. ’ Saudi is always going to be there; they don’t have the World Cup until 2034, but they will still be spending.

“Come here, come to us [Chelsea], they [Saudi Arabia] will still be spending, come to us for three or four seasons, and he listened, but how long are you going to continue to say no to such huge, huge money?

“At some point, your head gets turned. You have family members talking to you, parents talking to you; it’s generational money. You can’t keep putting it off; at some point, your head is going to get turned,” the 37-year-old concluded.

In the meantime, Victor Osimhen is enjoying his loan spell with Galatasaray, scoring 28 goals and providing five assists in 32 games for the Cim Bom Aslan. Galatasaray's top 10 African goal-scorers: Where does Victor Osimhen rank?
Stephen Oladehinde • 13:06 - 10.04.2025
Galatasaray's Victor Osimhen has been exceptional, scoring goals at a pace that's almost unheard of in Turkish football.
The Super Eagles star made a move to the Turkish champions on loan during the summer transfer window.

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Since his move, he has continued to build his reputation as one of the best and most dangerous strikers in front of goal in the world.

Galatasaray has been a beacon for African football talent for decades, and he is upholding this proud legacy, but where does the Nigerian striker rank among the club’s all-time top-scoring African stars. /storage/emulated/0/Download/google6170e9d15902cb37 (6).html