Ligue 1 giants Marseille have their sight on Nigerian striker Simy Nwankwo as part of the revamping of their attack, OwnGoalNigeria.com understands.

29 year old Simy scored 20 goals in 38 Serie A games last season for Crotone who were relegated at the end of season sparking a scramble for his signature.

Although Fiorentina are presently the favorite to sign him in a deal worth around €10 million, Marseille have sounded out his advisers of their interest in having him as well.

However, their interest is base on the proposed departure of Dario Benedetto who is expected to leave this summer after failing to settle down in France.

Signed from Argentina side Boca Juniors in 2019 he hasn’t hit the ground running as expected and with the club keen on a strike partner for Arkadiusz Milik, Simy is one of the options.

The Nigerian won’t come cheap and with Marseille having financial difficulties, the deal for Simy is solely hinged on the departure of Benedetto.

Nigeria international striker Paul Onuachu Will before the end of the summer transfer window seal a dream move to a team in the English Premier League, OwnGoalNigeria.com understands.

Onuachu who ended the season as top scorer in Belgium with 35 goals for Genk has narrowed his options to just two teams in West Ham and Brighton and Hove Albion.

Both teams have been told by Genk that it will cost £26 million to price the Nigerian away from the team but they are hopeful of negotiating it down with plans to use add ons to complete the figure.

Representatives of the 26 year old have already told other interested teams that Onuachu’s first priority is to join a team in the English Premier League but he will consider other leagues if the move fails.

So far there is no sign of breakdown in talks and for now it’s a straight battle between West Ham who believe they are in pole position to sign the forward and Brighton who have long admired the lanky striker.

Danish side Nordsjaelland have opened talks with Nigeria Professional Football League side Enyimba over the transfer of 22 year old winger Anayo Iwuala.

Enyimba have placed a €1 million price tag on the winger who has four caps for Nigeria but the Danish side are confident of driving down the price tag.

Already a representative of the team has met with the player’s camp where they have enumerated a plan for his career with a move to a top league possible in few seasons.

Nordsjaelland have in recent time succeeded in providing a platform for young African player to make the jump to top teams with Ghana international Muhammed Kudus now of Ajax passing their recent success story.

They are however not alone in the quest to sign the winger who has nine assists and four goals this season with teams from Belgium, France and Greece also circling for his signature.

His next career move will become clear after his involvement for Nigeria in the upcoming friendly game against Mexico in Los Angeles on the 3rd of July.

Belgium top division side Standard Liege has signed 2019 Nigeria U17 duo of Wisdom Ubani and Peter Agba, Owngoalnigeria.com can exclusively reveal.

The duo have been in Belgium for weeks and per reports reaching our editorial team the club has decided to sign them but details of the deal still remain sketchy as at the time of this report..

Ubani was billed to be the star of the penultimate Nigeria Under-17 team but after showing glimpses of his potential at the Africa Cup of Nations he failed to match same height at the World Cup proper. A tournament he attended without him being fully fit..

Agba starred for the Nigerian team at the WAFU B championship and also the U17 Cup of Nations but he was surprisingly dropped from the squad for the World Cup. He is a midfielder who can also play in attack.

Coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Gernot Rohr says he doesn’t expect the home based players picked from the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) to beat Mexico in next month friendly.

Nigeria will approach the game with an entirely home base squad as first reported by this portal and Rohr says the emphasis of the July 3rd game is not to win but to see how the players cope against quality opposition.

He said beating Mexico with players picked from the NPFL isn’t something that is realistic so he will be watching the team that will be handled by Austin Eguavoen to see if there is any new player who can be a part of the main team.

Rohr also allays fears that defeat in the game will affect Nigeria’s FIFA ranking saying the game won’t count maybe due to the fact that it is going to be played outside the international window break.

“You cannot play against Mexico and say you will win it with these home-based players. It is not our A team and it will not count for FIFA rankings. The most important thing is not the results but to test the players discover new players and evolve new tactics.”

FC Midtjylland Nigerian Frank Onyeka has left Nigeria for Denmark where he will undergo his medicals ahead of a switch to newly promoted English Premier League side Brentford.

As reported by this portal yesterday, the last set of details have been ironed out yesterday and he will depart Nigeria where he is on holiday to Copenhagen where he will undergo the medical.

He will arrive Denmark later today and the medical will take place tomorrow for the move which is rumoured to be around £13.5 million but we gathered it’s way less than that. A fee in the region of £7 million is thought to be the true value of the deal.

The one cap Nigeria senior international player will after his medicals tomorrow bid his teammates goodbye with Brentford expected to announce his signing tomorrow as well.

23 year old Onyeka will become the second Nigerian player to move to a newly promoted English Premier League team in the last 48 hours if as expected his move goes through. Emmanuel Dennis joined another newly promoted side in Watford yesterday.

The coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Gernot Rohr is seemingly unhappy with the conduct of the agent of Reading playmaker Michael Olise.

Rohr had talks with the player’s parent and later the player himself over playing for Nigeria which he accepted and was even named in the squad for the last round of AFCON qualifiers.

Due to travel restrictions and passport issues he was placed on standby in the list but subsequently even when players withdrew from the Nigerian team for their last friendly game against Cameroon, he wasn’t considered.

OwnGoalNigeria.com gathered that he has suddenly developed cold feet over the plan to switch nationality to Nigeria as his agent feel he is better off waiting for a chance with the French team.

With one Under-19 cap for France to his name, his representative felt a move to a top team this summer which is very likely will put him in pole position to win more caps for the French youth team.

It is why he has asked for some time to reconsider the option of playing for Nigeria which he earlier accepted. His recent decision hasn’t gone down well with Rohr.

There is also the option of playing for Algeria but that isn’t much an issue like the words of his agent who is keen on his client sticking to his dream of playing for France at least for the main time.

Dutch giants Ajax and the rest teams chasing 2019 Nigeria U17 star Akinkumi Amoo have been told to shun the idea of signing the 19 year old.

Amoo has emerged as one of the teen stars of the Swedish league with top class performance for Hammarby which is co owned by Swedish legend Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

His performance hasn’t gone unnoticed with Ibrahimovic reportedly using his close ties with Ajax to give them an edge ahead of the likes of Valencia, Atletico Madrid, Leicester City and Borussia Dortmund.

However it appears that plan has now been put on hold with sports director of Hammarby Jesper Jansson confirming that Amoo will remain at the club.

“No, we have nothing concrete there. I know there is a lot of talk but we do not feel any stress with Amoo,” Jansson told fotbolldirekt.se.

“Oh, he is definitely not stressed but we have a very good dialogue about his future.”

The German Nigerian duo of Jordan Torunarigha and Felix Uduokhai have both shun the option of switching nationality to Nigeria in the immediate, OwnGoalNigeria.com understands.

Coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Gernot Rohr revealed in August last year that two new players have agreed to switch to Nigeria after representing Germany at youth level.

“Two new players want to camp with us now. And this is a very important news for us. I travelled to meet them in March. I met one of them but didn’t meet the other until three weeks ago,” he said.

We gathered that although he didn’t mention names he was however referring to the duo of Torunarigha and Uduokhai but recent reports indicate that they have put a halt on the plan.

Hertha Berlin defender Torunarigha was suppose to be in the Super Eagles squad earlier than Augsburg Uduokhai who was handed a call to the senior team of Germany but didn’t get to play, both players have now shelve the option with the Olympics on the horizon.

Stefan Kuntz, who is the coach of the Olympic team of Germany has already informed the duo that they are part of his plans for the Olympics in Tokyo later this year, they are waiting on him before revisiting the earlier decision to switch to Nigeria.

Former Watford teen prospect Uche Mubiru Ikpeazu still has his mind on playing for the senior national team of Nigeria despite only recently committing his future to the Crane of Uganda.

26 year old Ikpeazu who was last season voted second best player by fans of relegated Championship side Wycombe Wanderers is yet to play a competitive game for the Uganda National team.

Born in England to parents to Nigerian and Ugandan descent he only recently left the capital of Nigeria Abuja where he came to spend part of his holidays. He told a contact he is open to playing for Nigeria if called up.

“ Ikpeazu is so Nigerian and will jump at the chance of playing for Nigeria even though he recently accepted the chance to represent Uganda. It’s a no brainer if he gets called up by Nigeria he will never say no”, a source told OwnGoalNigeria.com.

“ It is something we talked about while he was in Nigeria for his holiday. If he doesn’t get called up then he will gladly love to play against Nigeria in the colors of Uganda”.