{"id":72319,"date":"2025-08-06T19:54:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T19:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72319"},"modified":"2025-08-06T19:54:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T19:54:26","slug":"leicester-city-snub-valencia-ndidi-set-for-besiktas-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/06\/leicester-city-snub-valencia-ndidi-set-for-besiktas-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicester City Snub Valencia, Ndidi Set for Besiktas Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Fakande Oluwamayowa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Leicester City have reportedly rejected a late bid from Spanish club Valencia for Nigerian midfielder Wilfred Ndidi.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to multiple sources, the English club has accepted a \u20ac9.5 million offer from Turkish Super Lig side Besiktas for the 28-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ndidi has agreed personal terms and is set to join the Istanbul-based club, now managed by former Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian international is expected to undergo a medical later this week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Transfer expert Ben Jacobs confirmed that Leicester turned down Valencia\u2019s approach in favour of Besiktas&#8217; offer, with only minor details remaining to finalise the deal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ndidi will sign a three-year contract with an option for a fourth year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fakande Oluwamayowa &nbsp; Leicester City have reportedly rejected a late bid from Spanish club Valencia for Nigerian midfielder Wilfred Ndidi. &nbsp; According to multiple sources, the English club has accepted a \u20ac9.5 million offer from Turkish Super Lig side Besiktas for the 28-year-old. &nbsp; Ndidi has agreed personal terms and is set to join [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":72320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72319","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\/72319","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72321,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72319\/revisions\/72321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}