Chelsea’s last-ditch transfer for Victor Osimhen HIJACKED as Blues gazzumped by big-spending Saudi club

VICTOR OSIMHEN is set to snub Chelsea and join Saudi Arabian side Al-Ahli, according to reports.

The Napoli striker, 25, has been heavily linked with a move to Stamford Bridge throughout the summer.

Victor Osimhen is reportedly set to join Saudi Arabian side Al-Ahli
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Victor Osimhen is reportedly set to join Saudi Arabian side Al-AhliCredit: Alamy
Osimhen scored 15 Serie A goals for Napoli last season
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Osimhen scored 15 Serie A goals for Napoli last season

Meanwhile, Al-Ahli were interested in signing Brentford striker Ivan Toney - who rejected the Saudi side as he eyes a Premier League move.

Now the Middle East outfit have set their sights on Osimhen, with Sky Sports reporting he is poised to sign for Al-Ahli.

It comes after SunSport revealed Osimhen was demanding £500,000-a-week wages to join Chelsea.

The Blues agreed a deal with Napoli for Romelu Lukaku to move the other way for £38million.

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Jamie Carragher says 'players should stop joining Chelsea' and 'sign a four-year deal at a proper club' in stunning rant

Where will they get changed? Jamie Carragher's huge Chelsea rant

PREMIER LEAGUE legend Jamie Carragher let rip at Chelsea's transfer market activity, going on an epic rant about the west Londoners…

He told Sky Sports: "Chelsea have just got to stop buying players and players have got to stop signing for Chelsea.

"If I was a player and look at Chelsea, why would you sign?

"The only reason you'd sign is because someone might say - your agent might say - 'We're getting a seven-year deal'.

"You know what I'd say? 'Back yourself as a player, sign a four-year deal at a proper club and back yourself to do well'.

"And then when you're due for renewal your money goes up anyway.

"I don't understand why you'd sign a seven-year deal. Back yourself."

He continued: "All players need competition. But every team I played in there were seven or eight players who knew they were playing every week.

"Then you've got six or seven players who are fighting for three positions, and then you've got another six players who know they are squad players."

And of the Blues' swollen array of talent, Carragher asked: "Where are they going to fit in the changing room?

"How are you going to put on a training session."

Chelsea are a circus - it will be TERRIBLE for football if they win anything, says Troy Deeney

CHELSEA are a circus — aren’t they?, writes Troy Deeney.

But the bigger concern should be if somehow, some way, Todd Boehly’s insane master-plan brings about success this season.

Finish in the top four. Win a trophy like the FA Cup.

He will then turn around and say: “See, it works” and all of a sudden, other clubs will begin considering copying this mad model to try and compete in the Premier League.

Before you know it, there will be a bigger divide between the top clubs and the rest and this country’s top flight will become something we have been fighting against — a Super League.

The smaller sides and promoted teams will be wiped out by the elite and will end up saying, ‘What’s the point?’

Football as we know it will change, and there will be no going back.

As a neutral, you don’t want to wish failure on a club or a regime, but it’s depressing to think about.

We should almost be looking at it in amazement — the owners have come in with this model and they’ve treated it as if they are buying stocks and shares, not players or human beings.

Boehly has wiped away any sense of sentiment or old-school values from that club and the worrying thing is that he doesn’t seem to care.

Does he even like football?

Read Troy Deeney's hard-hitting opinion on Boehly's Chelsea shambles in full.

Or check out all of Troy's columns on SunSport.