Respected Daily Telegraph’s football news correspondent, Matt Law has explained the reason behind Chelsea’s failure to meet the demands of Victor Osimhen during the summer transfer window.
Speaking to London Is Blue Podcast via Football Transfers, Law said:
“For me, they [Chelsea] can’t go out and pay him [ Osimhen] £ 300,000 a week because that is going to cause massive issues when you’ve just given Cole Palmer an uplift that is nowhere near that really,” Law explained.
“It would have been risky. You could easily have had another Lukaku situation.”
Chelsea was keen on bringing the Nigerian striker to Stamford Bridge from Napoli.
However, the Premier League west London club failed on the last day to secure Osimhen’s signature despite expressing their readiness to sign him on a loan deal.
The 25-year-old attacker, who rejected Chelsea’s proposal, eventually ended up joining Turkish Super Lig club Galatasaray on a season-long loan.
Transfer: Why Chelsea refused to meet Victor Osimhen’s demands
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