{"id":66229,"date":"2025-05-21T15:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T15:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66229"},"modified":"2025-05-21T15:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T15:18:11","slug":"napoli-blocks-turkish-move-for-osimhen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/21\/napoli-blocks-turkish-move-for-osimhen\/","title":{"rendered":"Napoli Blocks Turkish Move for Osimhen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Napoli has rejected a move by Turkish giants Galatasaray and Fenerbahce to land Super Eagles striker Victor Osimhen, signaling the club\u2019s firm stance on the forward&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p>Though figures behind the offer remain under wraps, sources close to the deal suggest the Italian side is not ready to part with their star man unless a compelling package is presented.<\/p>\n<p>Osimhen has drawn attention from several European heavyweights this transfer window, with his name topping many wish lists.<\/p>\n<p>Napoli\u2019s refusal to engage with the Turkish bid sends a strong message &#8211; the Nigerian forward is not going anywhere cheaply.<\/p>\n<p>The club is believed to be holding out for a much larger deal or eyeing a strategic replacement before entertaining any sale talks.<\/p>\n<p>As speculation swirls, all eyes remain on Osimhen and what could become one of the summer\u2019s most-watched transfer sagas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke Napoli has rejected a move by Turkish giants Galatasaray and Fenerbahce to land Super Eagles striker Victor Osimhen, signaling the club\u2019s firm stance on the forward&#8217;s future. Though figures behind the offer remain under wraps, sources close to the deal suggest the Italian side is not ready to part with their star [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":66230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-66229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66231,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66229\/revisions\/66231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}