Jose Mourinho has already told Liverpool all it needs to know about Victor Osimhen transfer

Victor Osimhen is reportedly among Liverpool's striker targets arsenic the nine looks to enlistee a replacement for Darwin Nunez, who is expected to permission Anfield successful the coming weeks.

Nunez moved to Liverpool 3 years agone but has tallied conscionable 40 goals, and past play was his worst of the lot, arsenic helium scored conscionable 7 times and was not a portion of Arne Slot's favored starting XI.

Liverpool's dream signing this summertime would beryllium Alexander Isak, but Newcastle is nether nary unit to merchantability the Sweden planetary aft qualifying for the upcoming season's Champions League. Sky Germany newsman Florian Plettenberg claims that Isak, Osimhen and Frankfurt's Hugo Ekitike are each connected a three-man striker shortlist for the Reds.

Osimhen spent past play connected indebtedness astatine Galatasaray but is contracted to Napoli, wherever his declaration is owed to expire successful 12 months' time.

The Nigeria planetary is not expected to play for the Naples outfit again, and the nine wants to merchantability him to debar losing him connected a escaped transportation adjacent summer.

There is nary doubting Osimhen's pedigree astatine the apical level — helium has averaged 0.57 goals per crippled implicit the people of his vocation — and helium has a large instrumentality successful Fenerbahce manager Jose Mourinho.

Mourinho spoke highly of Osimhen successful an interrogation with Turkish media past season, though helium did impeach the 26-year-old of gamesmanship arsenic helium said that the subordinate "dives excessively much."

"Osimhen is simply a fantastic player," Mourinho said during an interrogation with HT Spor. "He's a subordinate that, if I was astatine a nine with the imaginable to wage £70-75 million, I would buy.

"He's a fantastic player. Of course, helium comes successful antithetic circumstances [to Galatasaray], but successful the extremity that doesn't matter, what matters is that Galatasaray person got an perfectly fantastic player.

"I don't person immoderate problems with Victor. In fact, we person a precise bully relationship. Every clip we play against him, I talk with him due to the fact that I don't similar the mode helium behaves. He dives excessively much..

"The past clip we played Roma and Napoli and I had this speech with him. I told him; 'You are 1 of the 2 champion African players, it's you and [Mohamed] Salah.

"In the past, Didier Drogba, Samuel Eto'o, George Weah... You cannot behave similar this [diving].

"He dives excessively overmuch and that's my problem. After 10 minutes, we are good we person a precise bully relationship."

Story Saved

You tin find this communicative successful  My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the idiosyncratic icon successful the apical right.