Greek football power house Olympiakos have made a firm bid to sign former Everton forward Henry Onyekuru, Owngoalnigeria.com reports.

Presently out on loan to Turkish side Galatasaray after failing to nail a spot in the first team of the Principality outfit, his main aim is to remain with the Turkish giants.

Last week the coach of Galatasaray Fatih Terim confirmed they would like to keep him at the end of his loan spell but didn’t mention if they will buy him or ask to loan him for another season.

On his part Onyekuru is keen to remain in Turkey but admits that the final decision lies with Monaco where he still has three more years to run on his deal with the club.

Freelance French journalist Ignazio Genuardi reports that the intention of Olympiakos is to have him on loan for next season with the option of signing him permanently.

Monaco will assess if he fits into the plans of new coach Roberto Moreno next season before arriving at a decision on the future of the 22 year old Nigeria international.

Manchester United Coach Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has revealed that Odion Ighalo was given a new contract at Machester United so that he can finish what he started with the club before football was suspended.

Manchester United confirmed that the Nigerian will stay at the club until January 31st, 2021 after his initial contract was due to expire on the 31st of May 2020.

Solskjaer said “Shanghai Shenhua have been great towards us, allowing him to play for his dream club. It’s been a dream for him and hopefully he can finish what he started with us and win trophies”.

Ighalo has scored four goals from eight matches so far and that includes at least a goal in each of his last three starts – against Club Brugge, Derby County (2) and LASK.

The 30-year old will be hoping to excite Manchester United faithfuls when the English Premier League resumes on the 17 of June and the FA Cup quarterfinals on the weekend of June 27 and 28.

Faroe Island outfit KÍ Klaksvík will in two weeks time announce the signing of ex Manchester City teen prospect Chidebere Nwakali , Owngoalnigeria can confirm.

His signing will be made official by the team when the transfer window officially opens on the 15th of June in Faroe Island.

23 year old Nwakali who is the older brother to Huesca midfielder Kelechi was sacked by Swedish side Kalmar after arriving late from Nigeria where he went to spend the Christmas break and since then he has been clubless.

Signed to Manchester City alongside Kelechi Iheanacho in 2015 he has endured loan spells in Spain, Norway and Scotland before the club decided to cut him loose following the expiration of his deal.

KÍ Klaksvík currently have former Nigeria CHAN star Aliyu Abubakar on their books but he has been unable to link up with the rest of the squad due the lockdown in Nigeria, which has led to the grounding of international flight from Nigeria.

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The technical crew of the Super Eagles of Nigeria have held their first meeting, as Rohr’s second tenure begins, OwnGoalNigeria reports.

The scouts and assistant coaches debriefed coach Rohr on Nigerian players in Europe and the new wave of players rising. The crew also went further to discuss scouting routines and delegated responsibilities on how to monitor the large net of Nigerian players abroad.

Newly appointed assistant, Joseph Yobo was officially welcomed to the fold in the meeting and his role was explained to him by the coach who has severally said it’s not too different from the role Imama Amapakabo played while in same position, which is scouting for players in the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL).

With the COVID-19 pandemic making it hard for convergence at one location, the crew held a video conferencing meeting via Zoom as they bid to be on same page following the contract extension signed by head coach of the team Gernot Rohr.

In attendance was Head, Gernot Rohr, assistant Joseph Yobo, goalkeeper trainer, Alloy Agu, video analyst, Nabil Trabelsi, fitness coach, Jean Luc Royer, team administrator, Dayo Enebi and Tunde Adelakun.

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President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Amaju Pinnick says he won’t be seeking re election to continue when his present tenure expires in 2022.

Pinnick was successful in his bid to be elected for another tenure but despite the fact that there is no tenure limit for the position of president of the football house, Pinnick has confirmed that he won’t stay beyond 2022.

“I will not return again when my tenure ends in 2022. Quote me anywhere”, he said in a zoom interaction session with journalist organised by Colin Udoh.

He went on further to explain that going by the recent exchange rate . It will cost the NFF as much as 300 million Naira to host games in Nigeria as they get set to take part in the qualifiers for the 2021 AFCON and also 2022 World Cup.

For that reason the NFF will hold talks with governors willing to host the team as it will help the football house offset the huge bill brought about by the current exchange rate of the dollar to the Nigerian currency.

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The chances of Nigeria luring the German Nigerian duo of Jordan Torunarigha and Felix Uduokhai has been explained by coach of the senior national team of Nigeria, Gernot Rohr.

The duo of Torunarigha and Uduokhai who are players for Hertha Berlin and Augsburg respectively in the German Bundesliga have been on the radar of the coach for some times now .

Both players have already had talks over the possibility of switching to Nigeria from Germany but they insisted on more time before making a decision particularly Uduokhai.

Uduokhai is the main target of the coach for the fact that he will bring something different as he is a left footed central defender and also he is more open to a switch than Torunarigha.

Already the coach has ruled out making a move for Hoffenheim defender Kevin Akpoguma with the defender saying he feels more German than Nigerian despite his father wanting him to play for Nigeria.

“At first I want to tell you. I have never begged any player to play for Nigeria. This decision must be done by the players themselves. Like we have Cyriel Dessers in our last list”, Rohr told Colin Udoh in an Instagram live interview monitored by owngoalnigeria.com.

“The players in Germany you spoke about Torunarigha and Uduokhai. These ones they are playing already for Germany U23. Especially Uduokhai and they have qualified for the Olympics so Felix want to play in the Olympics for Germany. So I can understand it.

“You can not chose the best players if they play already for another country. They must give us a sign if they want to play with us. I met Akpoguma and his father want him to play for Nigeria but the boy said he is born in Germany and feels more German than Nigerian. I can’t do anything about that”, he concluded.

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Nantes player of the season Moses Simon was the subject of a mammoth bid from a Chinese team who were willing to pay him $200,000 weekly.

The 24 year old turned down the offer as he want to still remain in Europe where he is presently studying offers from some teams after a very impressive season on loan to Nantes.

Nantes have already made it known to Levante that they will be taking up the option to sign him permanently and as reported by this portal , their aim is to tread him off almost immediately.

A bid of €12 million was launched by Chinese outfit Shenzhen FC and as exclusively reported by Owngoalnigeria.com they also offered to pay Simon a weekly salary of €200,000 .

Before now the identity of the club has been hidden from the media. Same team have now switched attention to Heerenveen Nigerian winger Chidera Ejuke per reports gathered by our editorial team.

The coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Gernot Rohr has reacted to the recent clamour for the inclusion of players based in Nigeria in his team.

Rohr has been heavily criticized by the media for not picking players from the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) in his team for competitive games.

Reacting to the criticism, the coach said why he is not against calling up players from the local scene, it’s clear to see that some agents use it as a means to transfer players abroad.

He said he is committed to picking only the best players but most times they are off to Europe few months after being called up to the team.

“ I usually pick the best ones but when I pick the best one . Two months later the agent sell them to Europe, so you know there’s a big commercial interest for some people to bring the local players into the Super Eagles then it easy to sell but we are not here for that but we are not here for that.

“ We are here to put the best players together and make a great team for Nigeria”, he concluded.

The top scorer for Nigeria at the Rio 2016 Olympics Sadiq Umar took his goals count to 17 for the season after scoring from the spot for Partizan Belgrade in their 4-1 win over Mladost Lucani.

The goal was his 12th league goal of the season with five of his other goals coming in the Europa League . He also has 11 assists in the League with two more in the Europa League as well.

Speaking to Owngoalnigeria.com on his new found form in front of goal, the 23 year old said it’s a combination of all he has learnt from several coaches bar coach of Rangers of Scotland Steven Gerard.

“ I am seeing the efforts of the coaches that I have worked under. It’s really what I can say that is behind my confidence in front of goal. I have been fortunate enough to work with some of the best coaches in the world “, he said.

“ For everywhere I have played , I have picked up something new except at Rangers where I learnt nothing from the coach. That was a very funny phase in my career”.

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Few months after turning down the chance to represent Nigeria at Under-20 level, highly-rated teen Xavier Amaechi has continued to find first team action hard to come-by almost a year after refusing to sign a contract extension at Arsenal to instead join Hamburger SV in the Bundesliga 2.

The Anglo-Nigerian winger rejected Arsenal’s extension and snubbed other offers to sign a four-year deal worth 2.5 million Euros as he moved to Germany.

Since arriving the Deutschland, the 19 year old has only had 18 minutes of first team action while making appearances for the reserve side in the fourth division.

Since the restart of the Bundesliga 2 after the COVID-19 pause, Amaechi has had to sit on the bench for 90 minutes in all three games so far and the player is said to be losing sleep over his inability to get game times.

He has made appearances for England at the U16, U17 and U19 levels. Amaechi is eligible for Nigeria through is paternal roots and was approached by the coach of the Nigeria U20 Paul Aigbogun but he turned it down shortly before the World Cup in Poland.

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