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Thursday briefing: New documents, emails and texts published on Victor Osimhen's transfer to Napoli

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9 October 2025 - 4:30 AM

Italian publication La Repubblica has revealed documents, emails, and text messages pertaining to the €70 million transfer of Victor Osimhen from Lille to Napoli in 2020.

Earlier this year, Rome’s prosecutor’s office requested the indictment of Napoli owner Aurelio De Laurentiis over alleged false accounting over a three-year period between 2019 and 2021.

Napoli had set a spending limit of €50 million for Osimhen, which was short of Lille’s asking price of €70 million. However,

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