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  • Dubai club sets deadline for Odemwingie

    Dubai club sets deadline for Odemwingie

    Dubai-based team Al Nasr has issued West Bromwich Albion an ultimatum over the transfer of Nigeria striker Osaze Odemwingie.

    Al Nasr, who had a bid of £850,000 for Osaze rejected last week, is understood to have now given WBA until the end of the Tuesday to name its price for the player, MTNFootball.com reports.

    Al Nasr believe Odemwingie should be available for £1m, but The Baggies’ is holding out for a bid of £2m for the Nigeria international, who joined the club from Russian Premier League side Lokomotiv Moscow in a £2.5m deal in August 2010.

    Newly promoted Crystal Palace is understood to be showing an interest in the forward, while reports in the Middle East say Sunderland and Fulham are also in the mix for a deal.

    Osaze was disciplined by WBA for trying to force a move to Queens Park Rangers in the January transfer window after falling out with club officials.

    He has only made seven appearances for ‘The Baggies’ since then, all of which came from the substitutes’ bench.

     

  • WBA wants £2m for Odemwingie

    WBA wants £2m for Odemwingie

    English Premier League club, West Browmwich Albion, has slapped a £2 million (about N493 million) transfer tag on Nigerian striker, Peter Odemwingie.

    The forward has endured a difficult last seven months since unsuccessfully trying to force a transfer to Queens Park Rangers in January, supersport.com reports.

    He had been fined, made to use a different dressing room from the rest of the squad, left out from the club’s pre-season tour and compelled to train with the club’s youth team.

    Another Premier League club, Crystal Palace, has shown strong interest in Odemwingie but the latest bid for the 32-year-old’s services came from Dubai-based club, Al Nasr.

    Al Nasr tabled an £850,000 (about N210 million) bid for the attacker but West Brom is holding out for £2 million.

    With the forward spending more time away from football at the highest level, he took to Twitter to reveal his new passion – Golf.

    “I think I need some antiGolf tablets cos the desire to play is getting too much hahaha greetings to everyone ! Brum still hot like in Hawaii,” he tweeted via @OdemwingieP.

    Odemwingie joined the Baggies in 2010 but it seems he has finally reached the end of the road at the Hawthorns.

     

     

  • N125m delays Odemwingie’s Palace move

    N125m delays Odemwingie’s Palace move

    A fee of about N125 million has continued to hold back Peter Odemwingie’s move from West Bromwich Albion to Crystal Palace, futaa.com reports.

    The Nigerian striker runs out of the Baggies contract in the next 12 months, but Palace has expressed the desire to buy the player, who has since fancied a move away from the Hawthorns.

    Palace is unwilling to offer more than N500 million (£2million), while Albion hold out for closer to N625 million (£2.5million), hence the deal to Palace is still some way from being completed as both clubs haggle over the fee.

    The 31-year-old Nigerian international would jump at the chance of a move to Selhurst Park but he would have to wait while the two clubs try and reach a compromise.

     

  • Osaze sets for Eagles return

    Osaze sets for Eagles return

    …  Nsofor, Kalu Uche too

    West Bromwich Albion striker, Osaze Odemwingie, is set for a sensational Super Eagles return only weeks after it seemed he will never play for Nigeria again.

    MTNFootbal.com gathered that Osaze, who has been at the wars with his English Premier League club, will be handed a lifeline by the Super Eagles handlers after a recent tirade by the player against Stephen Keshi and the team.

    “Osaze will return to the Eagles,” a top official specially disclosed to MTNFootball.com.

    “Besides the fact that he deserves to be in the team, it would also be a big boost for Osaze after his troubles with WBA.”

    The outspoken Osaze resorted to social network platform Twitter to vent his frustrations after he was sensationally axed from the Eagles squad to last month’s Africa Cup of Nations.

    The striker accused Keshi of not being professional in the manner he was dropped from the national team, while he also took a dig at skipper Joseph Yobo, saying the Super Eagles had lacked a true leader.

    He also suggested he was through with the national team.

    Keshi has since said Osaze was dropped because of “character problems” which would have disrupted team spirit at the AFCON.

    ‘Big Boss’ has already sent out words of encouragement to Osaze following his travails at the EPL side.

    The former Lille and Lokomotiv Moscow star last featured for Nigeria in a 2013 Nations Cup qualifier in Rwanda in February 2012.

    Other top stars lined up for a return to the team are Obinna Nsofor and Kalu Uche.

    Uche, for one, has been on fire in Turkey with his Istanbul outfit Kasimpasa, where he has so far netted 15 goals in the league.

    He last played for Nigeria in a November 2011 friendly against Zambia in Kaduna, where he scored the opening goal and his younger brother Ikechukwu was also on target in a 2-0 win in Keshi’s second game in charge of the team.

     

  • Botched transfer fallout: Osaze sacks agents

    Botched transfer fallout: Osaze sacks agents

    Nigeria striker, Osaze Odemwingie, has sacked his agents, he said on his Twitter account.

    The 31-year-old striker was the centre of attention on transfer deadline day when mixed messages saw him drive to London believing he was due to sign for Queens Park Rangers, MTNFootball.com reports.

    West Bromwich Albion denied a deal had been struck and manager Steve Clarke said just two weeks ago that the Nigerian international should seek new representatives.

    “I have sacked my agents. They are at my gate begging for permission to negotiate a comeback. I told them to seek permission from authorities,” Odemwingie tweeted.

    Odemwingie, who was reportedly fined two weeks’ wages over the transfer deadline saga, traveled with the WBA squad on Monday as they beat Liverpool in an English Premier League fixture, but watched the game from the stands.