{"id":15447,"date":"2024-07-02T09:02:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T09:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.ng\/?p=15447"},"modified":"2024-07-02T09:02:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T09:02:09","slug":"southampton-offers-6-5m-to-fenerbahce-for-bright-osayi-samuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.ng\/southampton-offers-6-5m-to-fenerbahce-for-bright-osayi-samuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Southampton offers\u00a0\u00a36.5m to Fenerbahce for Bright Osayi-Samuel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

English Premier League (EPL) side Southampton has offered the sum of \u00a36.5 million to Fenerbahce to acquire the services of SuperEagles defender Bright Osayi-Samuel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With one year left on his contract, Osayi-Samuel is under contract with Fenerbahce, who are eager to lock him down to a new agreement. The sides have not yet agreed on a pay plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reports say Southampton are seeking to take advantage of the deadlock as the Nigerian international wants an increase in his salary to commit his future to the Turkish club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of letting the full-back depart on a free transfer the next summer, the Istanbul giants might have to sell the player who made 23 league appearances for the team last season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This comes three months after Osayi-Samuel escaped the hammer of the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) following his much-publicised fight and altercation with irate Trabzonspor supporters after a football game last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Turkish Football Federation summoned Osayi-Samuel and his teammates following an altercation with Trabzonspor supporters, who attacked Fenerbahce players and officials after their team’s 3-2 loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the pitch invasion at the Trabzonspor vs. Fenerbahce game on March 17, the Turkish Football Federation has named the defender as one of three players set to appear at a disciplinary hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 26-year-old, who received a lot of praise from Fenerbahce supporters for his actions,\u00a0was later\u00a0exonerated of any culpability in the event, according to the Turkish website\u00a0A Spor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

English Premier League (EPL) side Southampton\u00a0has offered\u00a0the sum of\u00a0\u00a36.5\u00a0million\u00a0to Fenerbahce\u00a0to acquire the services of SuperEagles defender\u00a0Bright Osayi-Samuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":15448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15449,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15447\/revisions\/15449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}