Family members of Golden Eaglets star, Victor Osimhen, have identified Arsenal as the ideal club for their son to kick-start his professional career in Europe. Top clubs in Europe have started chasing the youngster after scoring eight goals in just five matches in the ongoing FIFA U-17 World Cup in Chile.

New Telegraph exclusively learnt that Arsenal and Chelsea were the leading candidates for the signature of the Ultimate Striker FC player. Our correspondent met with some members of the player’s family who said they would like their ward to start with a club that has a proven record of moulding budding stars.

Just like the family of Manchester City starlet, Kelechi Iheanacho, insisted on their son joining the English Premier League side after the 19-year-old’s exploits at the last FIFA U-17 World Cup at the United Arab Emirates, Osimhen’s family want a club like Arsenal to buy their son.

The eldest son of the family of seven, Andrew Osimhen, told our correspondent in an exclusive interview that although several clubs were already jostling to sign his brother, moving to Arsenal would be a dream move.

He said he did not want his brother to start at top sides that would not help him grow and hoped those in charge of getting him a club would take that into cognisance.

“He has an agent who has been helping his career and they are doing a very good job but the family wants Victor to go to clubs where he can be helped to grow.

Clubs in France, Belgium do that and if he goes to a club like Arsenal it will be fantastic because they also encourage young players to develop. But what we want for him is to combine football and education. Wherever he goes, we want him to develop his football career alongside education,” he said.

Osimhen is the leading candidate for Most Valuable Player in the tournament, and with eight goals already he could eclipse Sinama Pongolle’s record of nine goals at the U-17 World Cup which the Frenchman achieved back at the 2001 tournament in Trinidad and Tobago.


Source: http://newtelegraphonline.com/family-targets-arsenal-move-for-osimhen/

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