Real Madrid’s good start to the season does not fool the white leaders. Despite being leaders of the league and Group C of the Champions League, with Jude Bellingham arriving as a star and Vinicius Junior hoping to regain his best form after injury, Florentino Pérez knows that he in the team lacks a striker.
And Joselu is performing better than expected. The striker, who arrived this summer on loan from Espanyol, has managed to score five goals and provide two assists in the nine matches played so far in LaLiga EA Sports. Much higher numbers than the player who became a replacement for Kylian Mbappe. However, the Frenchman did not eventually arrive this summer, and that could mean another striker arriving at the Santiago Bernabeu in the winter market, Victor Osimhen.
The Nigerian is not having the best time in Naples. The Azzurro team uploaded a video clip on social media in which they mocked the missed penalty kick by their striker. This sarcasm did not please Osimhen, who threatened to take legal action against his club. Finally, both sides have taken the iron out of the issue, publicly denying the existence of any conflict, although tension between them remains.
This makes Aurelio De Laurentiis, the owner of the Napoli club, not see it as a bad idea to get rid of his player in the next market. For Real Madrid, this will be a market opportunity as they will use the money allocated to Mbappe to secure the signing of this season’s top scorer. The price, according to ESPN, will not fall below 100 million euros, although it will still be significantly less than what Napoli would ask for in normal circumstances. If this process goes through, the Paris Saint-Germain striker’s future in Madrid will be more in doubt than ever
Despite his own struggles with Napoli, and the Serie A champions’ inconsistent start, Osimhen still has impressive goalscoring numbers. With six goals in eight matches, he is the second top scorer in the league, behind Lautaro Martinez, and is the outstanding leader thanks to the poker he scored against Salernitana.
The Napoli team, which won the league last season with 90 points, 16 points behind second place, is currently in fifth place. In the Champions League, defeat to Real Madrid left them in second place alongside Braga, each with 3 points
