{"id":65737,"date":"2025-05-14T11:17:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T11:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65737"},"modified":"2025-05-14T11:17:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T11:17:47","slug":"dortmund-circle-arokodare-after-red-hot-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/14\/dortmund-circle-arokodare-after-red-hot-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Dortmund Circle Arokodare After Red Hot Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Oluwamayowa Fakande<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>German powerhouse Borussia Dortmund have set their sights on Nigerian forward Tolu Arokodare following his explosive form for Belgian side Genk.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old striker has been on a tear this season, notching 22 goals and providing seven assists, sparking serious interest from top European clubs.<\/p>\n<p>Dortmund, looking to bolster their attacking line after a below-par campaign, are reportedly in the race to sign the Genk hitman.<\/p>\n<p>Club sources say they are monitoring Arokodare closely as part of plans to sharpen their front line.<\/p>\n<p>Genk, while open to business, are expected to demand more than the \u20ac13 million market valuation listed by Transfermarkt, especially with the Nigerian\u2019s contract running until 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Arokodare\u2019s next move could be one of the big transfer stories this summer if Dortmund decide to make a formal bid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oluwamayowa Fakande German powerhouse Borussia Dortmund have set their sights on Nigerian forward Tolu Arokodare following his explosive form for Belgian side Genk. The 24-year-old striker has been on a tear this season, notching 22 goals and providing seven assists, sparking serious interest from top European clubs. Dortmund, looking to bolster their attacking line [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":65738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65737","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65739,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65737\/revisions\/65739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}