On loan Chelsea defender Kenneth Omeruo was conspicuously absent when his loan side Alanyaspor were thrashed 1-4 by Besiktas in a Monday night game played in the Turkish top flight league.

Omeruo who has been ever present for Alanyaspor this season was heavily linked to Besiktas in the summer, but ended up at his present team after a breakdown in talks between Chelsea and the Turkish giants.

Yesterday he missed out on a big chance to show Besiktas what they were missing as he wasn’t listed for action in the 1-4 hammering his team suffered at home against his former suitors.

23 year old Omeruo missed the game due to accumulated bookings picked up in the 12 games he has played this season, where he has shown his versatility by moving to defence midfield from his traditional role as a central defender.

The Super Eagles hardman has been booked four times this season, with the cautions coming in games against Adanaspor, Kasimpasa, Karabukspor and last weekend tie against Rizespor.

Fikayo Tomori has joined Brighton & Hove Albion on loan until the end of the season.

Tomori moves to the AMEX Stadium for his first spell away from Stamford Bridge.

The 19-year-old, who can play in central defence or at right-back, was part of the Academy teams of Chelsea which won the FA Youth Cup and UEFA Youth League in both 2014/15 and 2015/16.

Tomori also won the Chelsea Academy Player of the Year award last season following a string of impressive performances, making his debut for the first team on the final day of last season in a 1-1 draw against Leicester City.

He was born in Canada to Nigerian Parents, which makes him eligible for Nigeria and Canada, but he can also play for England where he was brought up. So far he has represented Canada and England at youth level which means he can still represent Nigeria.

His new team Brighton are currently second in the Championship, just one point behind leaders Newcastle United.

Coach of Scottish side Celtic Brendan Rodgers has reacted to rumours linking the team with a January bid for KAS Eupen Nigerian striker Henry Onyekuru.

Onyekuru who has scored 10 league goals for Eupen in the Belgian league has been linked with a move to a host of clubs, but recent reports has it that Celtic have failed with two bids for the striker’s services.

“I wouldn’t comment even if we had. Nothing to add on it.

We’ve obviously got another week or so. I want to add to the squad to keep the freshness and the quality.

But only if it’s the right time and players available and the right level of affordability. If not we’ll just have to wait until the summer”, he was quoted as saying by the Herald Scotland.

24 year old Russian-Nigerian defender Brian Idowu has assured coach of the Super Eagles of Nigeria Gernot Rohr that he will be available to play for Nigeria if called up.

Amkar Perm defender Idowu gave the assurances to Rohr during a meeting according to report exclusively gathered by Owngoalnigeria.com editorial staff.

A decision on his inclusion in the Super Eagles squad for their next friendly tie against Senegal will be made in the coming days.

Idowu was born in Russia to a Nigerian father but his mother is half Russian according to reports. He reportedly spent time in Owerri, South- East Nigeria, arriving Nigeria at the age of 3 before leaving back for Russia at the age of 6.

Since then he has spent the rest of his life in St. Petersburg, where he started his career as a footballer for FC Smena St. Petersburg before moving to Russian giants Zenith St. Petersburg.

However he failed to make the grade at the Russian side and joined Amkar Perm in 2011, where he has spent the last six seasons although he spent time on loan with Dinamo St. Petersburg in 2013.

Owngoalnigeria.com can exclusively reveal that captain of Chippa United James Okwuosa has completed his transfer to fellow South African side Orlando Pirates.

As reported by various news site oin South Africa a deal was reached between both teams yesterday, and the hard as nail defender had his medical with the team today.

He passed his medicals and will move to Pirates as part of a swap deal involving Justice Chabalala, Donald Mokondelela, Sello Japtha and Nkosinathi Mthiyane moving in the opposite direction.

The former Super Eagles invitee is expected to sign a three year deal with the team, which will be made official in the coming days by both clubs.

Owngoalnigeria have in it’s possession never been seen before pictures of the defender during his medical examination.

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Super Falcons and Arsenal Ladies striker Asisat Oshoala has described rumors of a move to China as a figment of the writer’s imagination.

The current African best female player was linked with a move to China in the summer, but according to her, she has no immediate or long term intentions of leaving Arsenal.

“I’m 100% at my club, Arsenal Ladies, I do not know the source of the report that I’m moving to China.

“I’m 100% Arsenal Ladies nothing more than that I’m on a break in Nigeria, a longer break after a major championship, Africa Women Cup of Nations in Cameroon,” said the former Liverpool Ladies FC and Rivers Angels markswoman to supersport.com.

Finnish top division side KuPS have handed 20 year old Nigerian forward Philip Njoku a trial chance, which will run for one week.

The club announced via official channel that the forward will take part in training and test games during his stay with the team.

He has already resumed training with the team according to the club, and could play in a test game for the team before the end of the week.

Last season he defended the colours of fellow Finnish side FC Inter Turku, where he played 12 times and scored once for the team.

Comfortable as an attacking midfielder, or as a right winger, he could join the Nigerian duo of Gbolahan Salami and Azubuike Egwuekwe at the club which once had four Nigerians on their books.

However Aliyu Abubakar and Paul Onobi left the team in the summer as their deal was not renewed by the modest Finnish side.

Kelechi Iheancho has had a quick rise to fame at Manchester City beginning with his promotion to the first team from the academy back in the 2015/16 season.

He quickly established himself as a fans favorite under the reigns of Pelligrini with scoring the winner at Crystal Palace to sustain City’s five-game winning streak at the time in the Premier League.

From then he scored a further 13 goals in all competitions reflecting his impressive season imposing a threat to defences amongst the league’s best.

The 20-year-old Nigerian has recently fallen to third choice striker under Guardiola with the arrival of Brazilian wonder kid Gabriel Jesus whose flair and intelligence thrills the City faithful who are immensely excited to have him at their disposal.

Kelechi has only had a handful of starts this season and even with a return of six goals Pep still evidently lacks faith in the forward reflected by his lack of appearances during Aguero’s four-game suspension in which Raheem Sterling and Kevin De Bruyne, both unnatural strikers, were preferred for the position.

He has recently won Africa’s most promising player to partner his clinical finishing and sharpness within the box.

However there is still a lot to learn for the young forward with his technical ability such as first touch and dribbling needing improvement for him to a become the much more complete attacker.

Not only this, his off the ball intelligence to make logical runs in behind and when to press the opposition’s back line and when not to needs work but the majority of his weaknesses can be learned however it will take time for this progression to occur.

With him having the goal scoring prowess and ability to be scoring at least 15 goals a season if he was provided first team opportunities.

The player with the best goal to minute’s ratio in Premier League history, only the Argentinian ace comes close with a goal every 107.1 minutes in comparison to Kelechi’s goal every 95.7 minutes, would love the chance to be finding the net for a mid-table side.

Week in week football is needed to enhance his growth as a player, and a relegation threatened team might become the answer. He may become an integral part in their survival for the remainder of the campaign returning to City as a more complete forward.

Spanish giants Real Madrid won’t be pursuing their interest in Nigerian teen forward Suleiman Abdullahi this January due to the transfer ban on the team.

However we gathered that the La-Liga giants have told Spezia that a decision on the super teen, who scored twice against the U-19 of Real Madrid in the final of a youth tournament will be taken in the summer.

At the moment, the 18 year old is currently turning heads for the Primavera team of Serie b side Spezia, where he has seven goals to his name, and has made the bench for the first team in league games.

” We ( Spezia) have been informed by a contact from Real Madrid that they will assess him in the summer, due to the transfer ban on the team by FIFA, so for now he is fully settled at Spezia”, a family source of the player told Owngoalnigeria.com.

Abdullahi joined Spezia from well respected Nigeria Academy Football Academy Abuja (FAA), where the likes of Nura Abdullahi, Sadiq Umar, Theophilus Solomon and Theophilus Awua graduated from.