According to L’Equipe French authorities are investigating the true worth of the €81.3 million transfer of Victor Osimhen from Lille to Napoli.
Question marks surrounds the true worth of the deal which was recorded as a transfer of €81.3 million but Lille only got a profit under €10 million. A situation which made the new owners of the team to raise eyebrows.
Callisto Sporting, a subsidiary of Luxembourg based investment fund bought the club from former owner Gerard Lopez in December 2020 and discovered some grey areas in the transfer of Osimhen.
Although the fee will be paid in installments and that probably explains the lack of profit in the first year of the deal which many said is worth €40 million in cash with €10 million to be paid in bonuses.
The extra €30m was made up from player sales, as Napoli handed veteran goalkeeper Orestis Karnezis, plus youth team players Claudio Manzi, Ciro Palmieri and Luigi Liguori over to Lille.
However, the youth players never actually represented Lille, as Manzi and Palmieri were immediately loaned to Fermana in Serie C.
So was Liguori, but he moved again on loan to Lecco in February.
Playing in the third division, one wonders how these three combined to be worth €30m.