{"id":72168,"date":"2025-08-05T15:51:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72168"},"modified":"2025-08-05T15:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:51:14","slug":"adepoju-backs-osimhens-galatasaray-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/05\/adepoju-backs-osimhens-galatasaray-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Adepoju Backs Osimhen\u2019s Galatasaray Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Fakande Oluwamayowa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Super Eagles midfielder, Mutiu Adepoju, has praised Victor Osimhen\u2019s decision to sign a new four-year deal with Galatasaray, calling it a smart move.<\/p>\n<p>Adepoju said the Nigerian striker made the right choice by staying with the Turkish giants after helping them win the league and cup last season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOsimhen is already well loved at Galatasaray. That familiarity and continuity matter,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a strong character and a proven goalscorer. Galatasaray have a striker who can help them defend their title and make an impact in the Champions League.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adepoju added that he was pleased with the transfer and believes Osimhen will thrive in his new chapter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said I wanted him to go where he would be happy. Judging from his comments on arrival in Turkey, I think he is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fakande Oluwamayowa Former Super Eagles midfielder, Mutiu Adepoju, has praised Victor Osimhen\u2019s decision to sign a new four-year deal with Galatasaray, calling it a smart move. Adepoju said the Nigerian striker made the right choice by staying with the Turkish giants after helping them win the league and cup last season. \u201cOsimhen is already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":72169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72168","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=72168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72170,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72168\/revisions\/72170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}