Polish top division side Legia Warszawa have agreed a pre contract with the vice captain of the 2016 Nigeria U17 team Igoh Ogbu.

Ogbu was one of the shining light of the Nigeria U-17 team that failed to qualify for the 2017 Africa Youth Championship, which has been moved from Madagascar to Gabon.

Coach of the Nigeria U-17 team Manu Garba told Owngoalnigeria.com in August that the hard as nail defender reminds him of former Nigeria Under 17 & 20 captain Musa Muhammed.

Owngoalnigeria.com gathered that the 16 year old impressed handlers of the team during a short trial early this year, which convinced the Polish side to reach a pre contract agreement with him.

The pre contract will metamorphose into a professional contract once he clocks 18 in February 2019.

Barcelona new signing Ezekiel Bassey was among the players not listed for action by coach Gerard Lopez when the B team lost 1-2 to Athletic Balears.

Ezekiel arrived the club on loan from Nigeria Premier League side Enyimba FC of Aba on transfer deadline day, but wasn’t dressed for today’s game due to issues outside his football abilities.

The 20 year old has been impressive in traning with the B team, but he is yet to be granted a work permit which will allow him play in competitive games even for the main team.

He will be issued a work permit in around three weeks time as exclusively reported by Owngoalnigeria.com few days ago, but he has to travel back to Nigeria for the process to be complete.

The former agent of Gombe United forward Samuel Agba has lifted the lid on why she terminated her contract with the power playing striker few months ago.

Agba had earlier claimed that disagreement with his agent Rukaya Yunus lead to the collapse of his stay at Nasarawa United, but Yunus told Owngoalnigeria.com that he is being economical with the truth.

” First of all I read his interview and I felt slighted and insulted that such is coming from a player I have been with for over three years.

” At the end of last season he told me he is not interested in staying with Nasarawa United, I respected his decision and started working for him to get a new deal, unknown to me he told the Chairman that he wants to stay.

” The club then paid him two months salary instead of one, when I heard of it I wasn’t happy because I know he won’t stay with them, so I asked him to return their money back to them but he refused.

” He called me up few days later to say he want to terminate his contract with me, I have to let him go despite all my investment in him. I don’t know why he is still talking about me, worst still lies about me”.

Few weeks after coach of Nigeria Gernot Rohr confirmed that Dutch-Nigerian full back Tyroone Ebuehi will play for Nigeria, another battle over Arnaut Danjuma Groenveld could happen in the future.

20 year old Groenveld was born in Lagos Nigeria but has spent the best part of his life in the Netherlands where he began his football career.

He was on the books of giants PSV Eindhoven starring regularly for their U-19s but didn’t make the grade to the first team before he was loaned out to Jong PSV.

Groeneveld wasn’t offered fresh terms by PSV, and NEC Nijmegen were quick to swoop in for the midfielder who is comfortable playing on the either flanks or as the main striker.

At international level he is yet to be capped by either Nigeria or Netherlands, but judging by his progress at NEC this season where he has made four appearances, it is now a case of when both nations will slug it out for his international future not if.

AZ Alkmaar summer signing Fred Friday finally got off the mark in the Dutch Eredivisie with a brace for his team in their 2-4 loss to PSV Eindhoven.

Since moving to the Dutch League, the 21 year old who was the goal king in Norway while at Lillestroem has struggled to match the form that made AZ splash €1.5M on him.

However against PSV, he was handed a rare start and he proved the manager right by reducing the deficit for his team in the 17th minute after Jethro Willems brace put PSV two goals ahead.

Although his team failed to claw their way back into the game, the Nigerian was on hand to score a late consolation for his team five minutes from full time, who were reduced to 10 men following the sending off of Stijn Wuytens.

The brace by Fred means he has now scored in all competitions for AZ, as he previous found the back of the net in the Europa League and the Dutch Cup, with four goals to his name as well for AZ II.

Highly rated German-Nigerian centre back Jordan Torunarigha made his Bundesliga debut for Hertha Berlin in their 1-0 win over Ingolstadt.

As exclusively revealed by Owngoalnigeria.com, Torunarigha is among the numerous players penciled down by Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr for call up to the team in the nearest future.

The son of former Shoooting Stars ace Ojokojo Torunarigha, but he has already represented Germany at various youth levels although he still remains eligible for Nigeria as he is yet to make a senior debut for the land of his birth.

Torunarigha has made the bench for the team in previous Bundesliga games before finally getting a chance to come on the pitch against Ingolstadt.

The 19 year old replaced Vedad Ibisevic on the dot of regulation time as Hertha Berlin seek to grind out a 1-0 win, which they ended up doing to move up the log standings.

Coach of the Nigeria senior national team Gernot Rohr says he has found new defenders who will improve the team in their Nations Cup 2019 and World Cup 2018 qualifiers.

Rohr made this known during an interview in Gabon, where he is presently working as a TV pundit at the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations in the absence of Nigeria.

“It is an interesting challenge, to have a new team, a young team, to build a team with players who really have the spirit of the country, who want to play, to fight, to give their all, who don’t want to speak about material things, but who are here because they want to play for their country,” Rohr said.

“We have a good captain with experience we have found some defenders to make us stronger at the back and I think the spirit and harmony of the team is very good. But we know the important times come now.”

Even though he didn’t give out the names of the players he has added to the defence of the team, the Franco German manager has few weeks ago confirmed Dutch-Nigerian full back Tyrone Ebuehi as one of the players he plans adding to his team.

He also revealed that he is doing his frustration over the duration of time needed to get a Nigerian passport for players born outside Nigeria, which kind of suggested that he is talking about Russian-Nigerian defender Brian Idowu.

The duo are possibly the addition he is talking about base on the above statements, but in the coming days especially the friendly game against Senegal will go a long way in revealing more about his defensive additions.

Former Manchester United defender Gary Neville has slammed the performance of Arsenal’s talisman Alexis Sanchez in their 1-3 loss to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.

Arsenal saw their title hope go up in flames at Stamford Bridge with Mikel Alonso, Eden Hazard and Cesc Fabregas scoring for the Blues before Olivier Giroud scored a consolation goal for the Gunners.

Neville while analysing the game on skysports was critical of Arsenal’s sloppiness, but particularly hit out at the poor performance of Alexis Sanchez.

” You have to look at him as one of the players the others depend on in games like this. He was very poor and gave away the ball countless times. Even Alex Iwobi did more than him”, Neville said.

He went further to criticise Arsenal’s midfield trio consisting of Iwobi, Mesut Ozil and Alex Oxlade Chamberlain following the second half substitution of Francis Coquelin.

” Let me just throw this midfield at you, Oxlade Chamberlain, Iwobi and Ozil against Chelsea. I mean?, Who else does that? Only Arsenal and they paid for it”.

Arsenal legend Emmanuel Petit says Alex Iwobi should be blamed for the opening goal conceded by Arsenal in their 3-1 loss to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.

Iwobi started on the left wing for Arsenal from where the cross which lead to the first goal scored by Chelsea was delivered.

” There were so many errors that lead to the goal, but you have to look at how it all started. Arsenal were properly set up until Iwobi stepped out of his line, he got drawn to the ball quite easily.

” His movement allowed Victor Moses to sneak in behind and receive the ball, with no pressure he was able to deliver the ball which lead to the goal”. Petit said during his post match analysis of Arsenal’s loss.