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  • Onyeudo considers his options

    Onyeudo considers his options

    Bishop Onyeudo is taking his time to decide the ideal club to play for next season. The striker is now a free agent after his short-term deal with Enyimba expired at the end of the season.

    He told supersport.com that though he has the option of signing for another season, he has other offers and would carefully study them before making a decision.

    “Enyimba made an offer before the end of the season, but I didn’t want to act hastily because there were a couple of other clubs also showing interest,” he said.

    “Among them is a club from Israel, so I would have to iron out the contractual issues to ensure there wouldn’t be any stumbling block if, and when, the move materialises. My priority is to move abroad and it could happen in the January transfer window when our own season may just be gathering momentum, so there has to be an understanding before I commit myself. Sunshine Stars and Akwa United have also approached me, so I am looking carefully at what they all have to offer before making a decision.”

    Onyeudo admitted he had a soft spot for Enyimba, having enjoyed his second spell at the club.

    “I thoroughly enjoyed playing for Enyimba and we were very unlucky not to have won the league. We did quite well in the second round, and may have just nicked it had we started well,” he told supersport.com.

    “I am interested in continuing with them, but that would depend on the outcome of our talks. Anyansi Agwu is one of the best administrators around. He is doing such a fine job running the club. We were received by the Abia State government and the players were rewarded. I really had a good time there.”

    Onyeudo joined Enyimba last season from Gombe United during the mid-season break. He was Gombe United’s leading scorer with eight goals. He scored four with Enyimba to take his tally to 12 goals in the league last season.

  • Onyeudo happy to net 12th goal of the season

    Onyeudo happy to net 12th goal of the season

    • Promises to end the season as goal king

    Enyimba’s Bishop Onyeudo has moved joint top scorer in the Glo Premier League after he netted once-his 12th of the season in the Peoples Elephant’s 3-0 home win over Gombe United in a matchday 28 encounter.

    Onyeudo featured for the Savannah Scorpions during the first stanza of the league before leaving the club over unpaid allowances for Aba.

    He was given the opportunity to score against his former club when the centre referee spotted an infringement in the vital area of the visitors in the 20th minute. Onyeudo coolly dispatched the penalty kick for the second goal to the delight of the home fans.

    The goal was his 12th goal of the season, he could emerge as the highest scorer at the season with more hard work with his nearest challenger, Dele Olorundare formerly of Sunshine Stars already out of the country and now on loan at Tavsanli Linyitspor of Turkey, the coast is clear for him.

    “I am happy that I got another goal today. It is always a thing of joy to score. I got a goal against my former club. It was fun to ensure that my new club win but I didn’t celebrate as a mark of respect for Gombe United.

    “I will do my best to end the season as the highest goals scorer. It is my personal ambition,” Onyeudo told SportingLife shortly after the match.

  • Gombe United declare Onyeudo wanted

    Gombe United declare Onyeudo wanted

    Cooreman furious with striker

     

    The future of Gombe United’s forward Bishop Onyeudo with the Desert Scorpions is thrown into further doubt after the club declared him wanted for leaving the elite division side without permission.

    Gombe United’s manager, Maurice Cooreman in a chat with SportingLife expressed his dismay at Onyeudo for seeking to break a season contract he had with the club over flimsy excuses.

    He reckoned that the top marksman only told him he was travelling to the German Embassy for processing of his travel documents but he was surprised to hear from his manager that Onyeudo has made up his mind to dump the club.

    Cooreman informed SportingLife that Onyeudo’s reason for seeking a new club is the inability of Gombe United to offset his signing-on fees and other allowances due to him since the beginning of the season.

    But the Belgian disclosed that it would be difficult for the player or any other player of the club to unilaterally break the contract he signed with the club and that no player leaves his club without the consent of those in the club.

    He implored Onyeudo to return to Gombe in the interest of peace and wait till the end of the season to move to another club.

    Cooreman assured that the Gombe government is working assiduously round the clock to ensure that the players’ outstanding bills are settled within a short while.

    “I want to bring it to your notice that Bishop has left Gombe without the express permission of Gombe United and we are not going to take it lightly with him at all. He told me he wanted to go to the German Embassy for discussions only to be told by his agent he went to Lagos.

    “I was told he does not want to continue playing for Gombe United because he is owed Signing-on fees and match bonuses. It is not enough to break your contract because of that.

    “The Gombe government has assured the money will be paid soon and so it is disheartening to hear he is seeking a new club. He can’t go to any club for now because he is still under contract with us and we are not ready to sell him for any price for now. He should in his own interest come back to Gombe before the club decides taking any punitive action against him,” he said.

    SportingLife recently scooped and reported that the Imo born striker would leave the Desert Scorpions after his close source revealed the player’s angst at the inability of Gombe United to pay him for his brilliant performance for the club during the first stanza of the current campaign.

    Onyeudo scored 8 goals to help Gombe United end the season in 9th position with 28 points from 19 games.

  • Onyeudo backpedals, rejoins Rangers

    Snubbed Gombe United striker Bishop Onyeudo has agreed to join Rangers on loan, MTNFootball.com has specially gathered.

    Ironically, a top Rangers official had told the player during the close season that he will only rejoin the club “over my dead body”.

    Ex-Enyimba and Wikki star Onyeudo received a standing ovation when he entered the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium on Wednesday during a rescheduled league match against traditional rivals Shooting Stars.

    The striker told MTNFootball.com he would negotiate his transfer to Rangers on Thursday.

    Onyeudo, who has scored seven goals in the ongoing season, is now being seen by Rangers as the player who could solve their goal-scoring problems especially in the CAF Confederation Cup, which they are gunning to become the first Nigerian club to win.

    They begin the mini-league stage of the continental competition on July 21 at home to Etoile du Sahel of Tunisia.

  • Onyeudo nets 7th goal of the season

    Gombe United hotshot, Bishop Onyeudo has got his seventh goal of the season to move level on goals tally with Heartland’s Akor Isah Umoru in the race for the goals king at the end of the 2012/2013 Nigeria Professional Football League season.

    Onyeudo who has been a revelation this season netted the match winner for his club in their hard earned 1-0 home win over Kwara United at the Pantami Stadium in the 60th minute.

    Speaking on the latest goal scored by Onyeudo and his correct number of goals tally, Gombe United chief coach, Maurice Cooreman insists the Imo born attacker has just got 7th goal and not as reported in the other dailies and a respected football website.

    According to Cooreman: “Bishop has scored 7 goals now. He got the 7th in our game against Kwara United. It was a difficult game. He got only one goal against Warri Wolves and not two has credited to him in the media.

    “The first goal he claimed against Warri Wolves was netted by a Warri Wolves’ player and so was noted as an own goal. He has scored 7 goals now and he still has the strength to score more with patience.”

    Others that are ready to pounce on the current position of the duo of Onyeudo and Akor on the goals scorers’ chart are El Kanemi Warriors’ Haruna Babalo and Sunshine Stars’ Dele Olorundare who have scored 5 and 6 goals in that order.