Published on 27.09.2023
Victor Osimhen considers legal action against Napoli after the club posts and deletes a bizarre TikTok video where they mock their own player for missing a penalty.
Victor Osimhen reserves the right to take legal action against his own club Napoli for mocking him on their official TikTok account.
Osimhen helped fire Napoli to a first league title in over 30 years last time out with a standout campaign in which he netted 31 goals across all competitions. However, he was the target of a bizarre video posted from the club’s own social media profile on Tuesday.
It was a rare miss for the Nigerian who has scored 62 goals in 107 appearances for the Serie A side, yet the video appeared to mock him for his attempts to persuade the penalty to be given.
The video shows the 24-year-old appealing for a penalty, but using a strange sped-up voice with the caption ‘Gimme penalty please’.
The video centered on an incident in the club’s scoreless draw against Bologna on Sunday, in which Osimhen spurned the opportunity to win the game from the penalty spot. That proved to be the game’s defining moment and was a rare miss from the Nigerian – who had bagged three goals in his first five matches this season.
Yet Napoli’s peculiar video focused on Osimhen appealing for the penalty, using a strange and rather unsettling sped-up voice – which appeared to have no context, other than to mock the striker for his attempts to persuade the decision to be given.
It was confirmed after the match though that Osimhen had apologized to Garcia and his Napoli team-mates for the way he showed his disappointment in being taken off the pitch.
