NAPOLI HUNTING FOR STRIKER BUYER

OSHIMEN NEEDS A CLUB, NAPOLI HOPE IT'S ARSENAL

The conversation hasn't exactly raced along on any of the transfer targets. Still, fear not, all this chatter that Arsenal hasn’t entered the race or had conversations about Sesko is just nonsense. Never say never on any deal; there’s always someone willing to come in and gazump a player, like Chelsea did with Caicedo and Mudryk. But this summer, I think the gap between Arsenal and the rest is so wide, you’d be really f*cking stupid to go anywhere else.

At the start of every season, there’s always a player everyone points to after 10 games and says, "We should have gone there." Last season, that guy was James Maddison. A good player, no doubt, but he obviously came with deficiencies; otherwise, he’d have left Leicester way earlier. Spurs jumped on him. He banged to begin with, then he faded as the season progressed. He was last seen playing ridiculous Hollywood balls as he and his boys bombed out of the Champions League at home. If that wasn’t bad enough, David Ornstein dropped the bombshell that he’s out of the England squad this summer. Spurs fans and some Arsenal fans best be scrubbing those ‘YOU MADE A MISTAKE’ tweets, cause I’m coming for them with the like after 8 months. The best kind of ‘I told you so.’

The Victor Oshimen stories just keep on spilling out into the media, and I suspect the pumping is coming from Napoli. Why? They’ve lost a buyer in Chelsea, they know we’re the only club in for a striker, and the rest of Europe is broke. The latest involves their desire to do a trade with Emile Smith Rowe or Tomiyasu. It’s all sounding a bit desperate if you ask me. Traditionally, the only two teams I’d say would go near him would be United and Chelsea. But I can’t fathom how either club is going to find that sort of money with the players they have or their financial situations. The player locked himself into a new deal in December, and the release clause was rumored to be €120 million. Good luck finding that fee this summer.