{"id":35603,"date":"2024-06-21T08:42:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T08:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=35603"},"modified":"2024-06-21T08:42:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T08:42:53","slug":"everton-complete-deal-to-sign-9m-rated-nigerian-midfielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/06\/21\/everton-complete-deal-to-sign-9m-rated-nigerian-midfielder\/","title":{"rendered":"Everton Complete Deal To Sign \u00a39m-Rated Nigerian Midfielder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everton have reportedly completed a \u00a39m move for Aston Villa\u2019s England-born Nigerian midfielder, Tim Iroegbunam.<br \/>\nAccording to transfer expert Fabrizio Romano. the 20-year-old looks set to be Everton\u2019s first signing of the summer.<br \/>\n\u201cEverton have completed deal to sign Aston Villa midfielder Tim Iroegbunam for fee around \u00a39m, medical to follow,\u201d Romano wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>Iroegbulam featured 15 times under Unai Emery last summer \u2013 including five times in the Europa Conference League.<br \/>\nPrior to that, he enjoyed a successful loan at QPR last season, making 32 appearances and scoring twice.<\/p>\n<p>He also has two goals in seven games for England\u2019s U20 side and is a highly-rated youngster that will bolster Sean Dyche\u2019s midfield options.<br \/>\nIroegbunam is a product of the West Bromwich Albion and Aston Villa academies.<\/p>\n<p>He spent the 2022\u201323 season on loan at EFL Championship side Queens Park Rangers, and also appeared for England at under-19 and under-20 levels, winning the UEFA European Under-19 Championship with the former in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everton have reportedly completed a \u00a39m move for Aston Villa\u2019s England-born Nigerian midfielder, Tim Iroegbunam. According to transfer expert Fabrizio Romano. the 20-year-old looks set to be Everton\u2019s first signing of the summer. \u201cEverton have completed deal to sign Aston Villa midfielder Tim Iroegbunam for fee around \u00a39m, medical to follow,\u201d Romano wrote on X. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":35604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[487],"class_list":["post-35603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-everton"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35605,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35603\/revisions\/35605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}