Udinese have agreed a deal with Waftord for the permanent signing of Isaac Success and not a loan deal, OwnGoalNigeria.com understands.

Success will undergo a routine medical today before signing a three year deal, which will see him return to the Serie A team where he first started his career in Europe.

In 2014 he played for the U19 of the team before moving to La Liga side Granada and subsequently Watford In 2016, but was supposed to be a dream move has since turned into a nightmare for the forward.

He has failed to established himself despite a fine start to life at the club with injuries, fitness and off pitch issues limiting him to just 72 appearances and six goals in five years in all competitions.

The idea behind the move to Udinese is to help get the career of the 25 year old back on track after he was told by Watford coach Xisco Munoz that he is not in his plans for the season.

Taiwo Awoniyi was once again the hero for German side Union Berlin as he hit a brave to power them to a 4-0 away win over Finnish side KuPS in the UEFA Europa Conference League.

Union Berlin made the Nigerian their record signing when they accept to sign him permanently from Liverpool this summer after a successful time on loan last season.

Awoniyi opened his season goal account in the 1-1 draw against Bayern Leverkusen and he wasted no time in taking his form from the first Bundesliga game of the season to the European scene.

He started the raid over the Finnish side by turning home a cross for the opening goal of the game. He followed that up with an assist to Max Kruse to put his team two goals up.

32 minutes into the game, Kruse turned provider for the Nigerian who made no mistake as he finished off with a pin point left foot strike. The brace takes his goal count to three goals in the first two games of the season.

Out of favour Watford forward Isacc Success has accepted the decision of the club about his future and has now agreed to a loan move to Serie A side Udinese.

Success was told at the start of pre season that he is not in the plans of coach Xisco Munoz following their promotion to the English Premier League.

A loan move to Udinese was tabled before him by the club but he declined the offer insisting on fighting for a spot in the team but he has now made a u-turn.

We gathered he will in the coming days arrive Italy for medicals and also discussion of personal terms as both teams have already struck an agreement for a season loan deal.

A combination of issues have slowed the progress of the forward who once seen as a future force to be reckoned with in Nigerian football when he burst on the scene in 2013 with the Nigeria U17 team.

Coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Gernot Rohr didn’t include any new player in the provisional list of players he sent to the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) for the 2022 World Cup Qualifiers.

OwnGoalNigeria.com exclusively gathered that ahead of the upcoming qualifiers game against Liberia and Cape Verde respectively he has forwarded names of players who will be invited for the game.

He submitted an enlarged list of over 30 players but will prune it down after this weekend round of games in Europe. The list will officially be released next week by the NFF.

We gathered the coach didn’t include any new player in the team instead fringe players who have since made career step ups where given a spot in the list. He retained the bulk of the players he has been working with for a while.

However players like Lorient forward Terem
Moffi, Waftord’s Emmanuel Dennis and Brentford’s Frank Onyeka are In for their competitive debut for the team. The trio have only played in friendly games for the Super Eagles.

The dream of Ike Ugbo to represent Nigeria at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar will receive a big boost by the time he completes his proposed transfer to Ligue 1 side Marseille.

Ugbo was widely expected to join Belgium side Genk who have agreed a fee of around £3 million for his signing from Chelsea, but the move took a bizarre twist when he got an offer from Ligue 1 side Marseille.

Marseille matched the fee Genk were willing to pay Chelsea and even offered him a better pay package than what the Belgians gave him. He is now widely expected to join the Ligue 1 side instead.

His desire is to make the World Cup squad of the senior national team of Nigeria following his decision to switch international allegiance to the West African country. The move to Ligue 1 ahead of the Belgium league is seen as a step in the right direction.

In 2018 he met with the Nigerian team in London during the preparations for the World Cup and even watched the pre World Cup friendly game against Serbia live at the stadium.

Early this year he confirmed his desire to be a path of the Nigerian team to the World Cup in 2022, a dream which he said will fuel the remaining of his club decision in the future.

In 2018, Ugbo told Het Laatste Nieuws: “The paperwork is not quite in order yet to play for Nigeria but my agent is working on it. Playing a World Cup is every footballer’s dream, isn’t it?”

Former Everton forward Marcus Bent says the club is looking at ways of cashing in on Alex Iwobi as they bid to raise cash to improve other areas of their team.

Iwobi hasn’t quite lived up to the potential that made Everton paid £34 million tp sign him from Arsenal two summers ago. He has so far scored just four goals with four assists in 66 games.

This season he has started very well as he picked an assist in the first game of the season setting up Abdoulaye Doucore for the second goal in the 76th minute of their 3-1 win over Southampton.

According to Bent who spent two years at the club making 55 appearances with seven goals to his name said Everton are keen on moving him on before the end of the summer transfer window.

“Everton are talking about getting rid of him. They want to get him off the wage bill, he’s a good player, but hasn’t had the time to play or show his quality, but I think they want to move him on.”

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has retained the services of Ladan Bosso as coach of the Nigeria U20 team despite the failure of the team to make it to the last Africa U20 Cup of Nations.

Bosso led the Nigerian team to the WAFU tournament where they crashed out in the group stage, but the decision makers in Nigerian football still believe he has what it takes to discover players who will in the long run make the step up to the senior team.

Explaining the choice of Bosso, a senior board member of the NFF said it’s a case of the departure from the norm that age group teams must win tournaments before they are considered as successful.

He said the criteria that they are primarily using to gauge National team coaches is first of all, the progression of the players in the team and so far Bosso has succeeded in that regard.

The team will now regroup for camping in September as Bosso proposed early camping in order to be able to see the best of the boys before the start of qualifiers in February next year.

Coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Gernot Rohr says the Super Eagles of Nigeria won’t approach their African Cup of Nations first group game against Egypt with fear.

In an interview with ESPN, the German coach was asked about the danger that the Egyptian talisman Mohamed Salah carries, the coach replies that his wards will be up to the task of keeping him quiet.

“It is a big challenge to play against Egypt in the first game and a player like Mohamed Salah,” Rohr told Espn.

Nigeria will open their campaign in group D against Egypt before taking on Sudan and finally Guinea Bissau, Rohr said the aim is to win the first two games and secure progress to the next round as it will afford him the chance to play some players who didn’t get to play in the first two games.

“I would like to win against the first two teams, and then I can bring in the third game, as I did in the last Afcon, the substitutes, and give rest to our starting players from the first two matches.

The coach of the senior national team of Sudan Hubert Velud has given his opinion on the draws for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations which placed his team in group D alongside Nigeria, Egypt and Guinea Bissau.

He reckoned the game against Egypt will be like a derby game and he see them alongside Nigeria as the two teams with a realistic chance of winning the tournament.

 “The draw is very difficult. We will face Egypt and Nigeria, who are two of the candidates to win the title, in my opinion.

“Guinea-Bissau is also a young and good team, and they have always been in the tournament in recent years,” he added.

“Our confrontation with Egypt will be awaited by the Sudanese people, and the Egyptian people, because it is my path between brothers.”

Speaking further in an interview on Filgol.com, the Frenchman said his team will first of all aim to win their first game against Guinea Bissau as their aim is to skip the group stages.

Our ambition is to skip the group stage and get far in the tournament, but we have to win first against Guinea-Bissau and then we’ll see what happens”.

On plans to strengthen his squad before the start of the tournament, the coach said he has some players he is trying to convince to switch allegiance to the team, top of which is former Germany youth international Hany Mukhtar who now plays in the MLS for Nashville SC.

“We have some players abroad that we are trying to convince them to represent the national team, such as Hani Mukhtar (a Sudanese father and a German mother, and he plays for the Nashville team in America), and we are in advanced discussions with him and we hope that an agreement will be reached soon.”

The future of Samuel Chukwueze appears to be away from Villarreal following the decision of the club to sign Bournemouth winger Arnaut Danjuma.

Danjuma caught the eyes of coach Unai Emery with his performance for the English Championship side with 15 goal and seven assists in 33 games. His signing is coming at time when there are doubts over the future of Chukwueze.

Born to a Nigerian mother and a Dutch father in the ancient city of Kaduna state in Nigeria, he turned down the chance to play for Nigeria two years ago and committed his future to the Netherlands, where got just two caps.

The Nigeria international is reportedly not in the good books of Emery who is keen on moving him on in order to bring in players who are good for his system of play.

Still out injured since last season during the course of the Europa League semi final game against Arsenal, he has been offered to teams around Europe but no firm bid yet for his service.

Lille were the closest to a deal to sign him permanently but we gathered they later insisted on a loan with the option of signing him permanently next season. A move which Villarreal rejected as they want the cash from his proposed sale to bolster their squad.