Mikel to Chelsea: You are just one phone call away from signing Osimhen

Chelsea legend Mikel Obi says his former Premier League club is just a phone call away from securing the signing of Galatasaray loanee, Victor Osimhen.

Th former Nigeria captain has been pressurizing Chelsea to sign his Nigerian compatriot and the club came close to signing the 26-year-old striker last summer but pulled out of a loan deal with what was believed to be the Osimhen’s wage demands the stumbling block.

With the transfer window closing in England and most of the major leagues in Europe, Osimhen had to accept a season-long loan move to Galatasaray where he has proved, with his goals, that he was not Serie A top scorer in the 2022/23 season by happenstance.

Mikel is asking Chelsea to restart the move that failed at the end of last season.

‘We have to get Victor Osimhen. It will be a disaster after everything we have been through between me, the club and him if he goes somewhere and wears another shirt.

“He has been on fire; the hunger he plays with, he is reliable, gets you goals and assists. Victor is tailor made for us. He supported us growing up, his idol is [Didier] Drogba. How many times am I going to say this? He bleeds blue, he wants to play for us.

“It would literally be a phone call, a couple of days and done. I have done all I can, it is now down to the club,’ Mikel said on the Obi One Podcast.