{"id":305127,"date":"2025-07-30T23:20:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T23:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305127\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T23:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T23:20:15","slug":"he-rejected-liverpool-journalist-makes-massive-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305127\/","title":{"rendered":"He Rejected Liverpool &#8211; Journalist Makes Massive Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"> Carl Recine\/Getty Images <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"single-quote\" style=\"display: block; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin: 30px 0px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;\"><a style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/liverpool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool<\/a> put an offer to Napoli for Victor Osimhen one week ago and the striker \u2018rejected\u2019 it, due to having an agreement with Galatasaray, a Turkish journalist has claimed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since winning the league title last season, the Reds have been on a spending spree this summer, in order to adequately equip Arne Slot for the challenge that lies ahead.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jeremie Frimpong, Florian Wirtz and Milos Kerkez were recently joined by Hugo Ekitike, after Liverpool <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2025\/07\/20\/total-package-could-reach-liverpool-agree-hugo-ekitike-fee\/688937\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pushed Newcastle United aside in the race for his signature<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/newcastle-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newcastle United<\/a>\u2018s star man, Alexander Isak, has emerged as their next target, with the Reds <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2025\/07\/27\/liverpool-prepared-to-go-big-for-alexander-isak-when-luis-diaz-sale-done\/689530\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">preparing a big offer for him<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While efforts are on to reach an agreement with Newcastle United, a new claim about Liverpool\u2019s striker hunt has been made.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Spurs_Romero_Ekitike2_620_ofg.webp.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Turkish journalist Yakup Cinar has insisted that Liverpool put an offer to Napoli for Osimhen just a week ago, but Osimhen would not join the Reds.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Osimhen is heading back to Galatasaray and it is claimed he was not willing to break his agreement with the Turkish side when Liverpool came calling.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<tr>\nClub<br \/>\nYears<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Wolfsburg<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">2017-2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Charleroi (loan)<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">2018-2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Charleroi<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #dddddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Lille<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #dddddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">2019-2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #dddddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Napoli<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #dddddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">2020-2025<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #dddddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Galatasaray (loan)<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #dddddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">2024-2025<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>Victor Osimhen\u2019s career history<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiverpool made an offer to Napoli for Victor Osimhen a week ago\u201d, Cinar told Turkish outlet <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/yeniacikcom\/status\/1950559636366786911\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yeni Acik<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOsimhen rejected this offer due to his agreement with Galatasaray.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Galatasaray_Victor_Osimhen3_620_ofg.webp.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool have been consistently linked with Osimhen this summer and were identified <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2025\/06\/18\/liverpool-will-step-in-host-warns-of-danger-as-star-is-waiting-for-reds\/686064\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as the biggest threat in Galatasaray\u2019s bid to re-sign the striker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Whether Liverpool really did go in with a recent offer for the Nigerian striker is unclear, but Isak has long been considered their top target when it comes to another striker.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Osimhen has been available for much of the summer for a release clause price of \u20ac75m at Napoli and Liverpool have been trying to get their business done early, meaning there was ample opportunity to move for the Nigerian earlier than a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carl Recine\/Getty Images \u00a0 Liverpool put an offer to Napoli for Victor Osimhen one week ago and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-305127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114944752259747538","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}