…As EPL clubs chase Adarabioyo
Turkish Super Lig side, Sivasspor, have announced the signing of former Manchester City striker, Olarenwaju Kayode, following a successful medical.
The Shakhtar Donetsk-owned player will be spending the whole of the 2020-2021 season on loan at Sivasspor.
This is the second consecutive season that the Nigeria international has been loaned out to a Turkish club since joining Shakhtar Donetsk, having spent the 2019-20 campaign at Gaziantep FK, for whom he scored 10 goals in 29 matches while producing seven assists.
On his curriculum vitae, Kayode lists ASEC Mimosas, AFAD Djekanou, Luzern, Heartland, Maccabi Netanya and Austria Wien among his previous clubs.
A member of the Nigeria squads to the 2009 U17 World Cup and 2011 U20 World Cups, he has also represented Nigeria at U23 level and made his Super Eagles debut in a friendly against Senegal in 2017.
Kayode’s signing ceremony was attended by Sivasspor’s Deputy President, Erdal Sarılar, on Thursday.
Meanwhile, three English Premier League clubs are reportedly battling for the signature of Manchester City’s Nigerian defender, Tosin Adarabioyo.
According to the Guardian UK, Everton, West Ham and Fulham have expressed interest in signing Adarabioyo in the summer transfer window.
The center back is eager to play in the top-flight of English football after tasting action in the Championship during back-to-back loan spells with West Brom and Blackburn Rovers.
Adarabioyo wants to move on to pastures new as a result of being way behind in manager Pep Guardiola’s pecking order of center backs, with the likes of Aymeric Laporte, Nathan Ake, Nicolas Otamendi, John Stones and Eric Garcia ahead of him.
The 22-year-old has managed only eight appearances for the Citizens in all competitions since making his professional debut in the FA Cup against Chelsea in February 2016.
He has been on the books of City since the age of five and his current contract runs out in June 2021.