Newcastle: Osimhen can be Ronaldo 2.0

Regardless of ending in eleventh place within the Premier League final season, Newcastle United nonetheless managed to concede 62 targets in complete all through the marketing campaign.

One participant that managed to get his title on the scoresheet in opposition to the Toon was Manchester United’s Cristiano Ronaldo.

The truth is, the Portuguese attacker obtained his first season again at Outdated Trafford off to a powerful begin as he scored twice in United’s 4-1 win over the Magpies again in September.

Given how the 37-year-old has scored 698 targets in 932 membership appearances all through his spectacular profession, it’s protected to say that having Ronaldo rating in opposition to you isn’t a very uncommon factor.

With the summer time switch window nonetheless open for enterprise, this might give the Tyneside membership the possibility to herald what might be their very own model of the United icon to St. James’ Park.

Again in Might, it was reported that the Magpies have been fascinated by signing Napoli striker Victor Osimhen.

After scoring 18 targets in 38 appearances for Lille, the 23-year-old joined his present membership again in September 2020.

Since then, the Nigerian has discovered the online 28 instances in 62 video games throughout all competitions.

When it comes to being Newcastle’s personal model of Ronaldo, the Portugal worldwide at the moment sits on the high of an inventory of comparable gamers to Osimhen in accordance with Football Transfers.

This might be primarily on account of the truth that each gamers clearly have a knack for scoring targets.

Would Victor Osimhen be a wise signing for Newcastle?

To get a clearer image of how a lot of a assured attacking determine he’s, former Cagliari coach Walter Mazzarri had this to say in regards to the striker.

He said: “Osimhen is phenomenal as a result of he runs alone at 5 gamers and will get by.”

In line with Il Corriere dello Sport (by way of Football Italia), Napoli have put a reported price ticket of £100m on their star striker, which means that it might be a considerable funding from Newcastle to get him.

Nevertheless, with the goalscoring expertise he has proven and the time forward of him he has in his profession to blossom right into a deadlier attacking determine, in the identical approach that Ronaldo has, this might be an funding value making for Eddie Howe and PIF.

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