The path to renewal was built with patience, strategies, twists and turns, but Victor Osimhen’s contract extension with Napoli was made official this weekend. The Nigerian striker will contractually be a Partenopei player at least until June 2026. A reward after long negotiations with management and in particular president Aurelio De Laurentiis. In total, a dozen meetings were organized between June and December to complete this renewal. Questioned by the Corriere dello SportOsimhen’s agent, Roberto Calenda, returned to this extension and would like to reassure fans: “The contract is confidential. Victor is doing well in Naples and wants to go as far as possible. He always said it and demonstrated it on the pitch. We have just completed a very important renewal in the history of Italian football. Let’s take advantage of it. And this shows that some stories were false..
“I heard that I would have preferred not to renew to have him leave immediately. The usual prosecutorial blame game: it wasn’t true. I represent Victor and I aim for the best for him, with him: we have both been aiming for a renewal since last summer. Listen, last summer many offers came in, even monstrous ones, but De Laurentiis wanted to keep Victor and we made ourselves available. If there had been a desire to leave, we would have said so. And instead, we worked, and a lot, only on renewal. And next summer it will be the same: we will talk to De Laurentiis and see together what to do.”he then concluded in the columns of our Italian colleagues.
