Flying Eagles winger, Haliru Sarki has joined United Arab Emirates club Al Ain, reports Completesports.com.
Sarki penned a long-term contract with the UAE champions.
His club, Mahanaim announced the transfer on their official Twitter handle.
“We have reached an agreement with a top Asian club side, @alainclub for the transfer of our player and Nigeria U20 forward, Haliru Sarki. The deal is a long-term project,” the club announced.
“We are wishing Sarki and his new club success in the coming season.”
The youngster was part of Flying Eagles’ squad to the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Argentina.
He was also part of the team that came third at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt in March.
By Adeboye Amosu
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But he will need work permit to play .or is working permit going now ..
WHY RUSHING TO OUTSIDE, THIS IS HOW YOU WILL KILL YOUR CAREER.
Why not? What else does Nigeria have to offer him. Its easy for you to say when you do not have any stake or something to loose. A bird in hand is worth more than a million in the bush. Let him go now before had I know comes in. He could be injured tomorrow playing in the NPFL where he might be paid peanuts. Make hay boy while the sun shines.
Somebody should have told this boy that Saudi Arabia is for players to retire when they have made thier name in WOrld football. This move seems ill adviced probably from some one in the NFF who has hands in this boys pockets sad to see. it seems this current leadership of NFF is hell bound on destroying our football finally and taking us back to the days when we used to complain that players move to clubs for Money.
I ask again is Victor Osimhen not vgood for Nigeria is Victor Osimhen not setting the standards high for Nigerian Footballers to aspire to reach.
Why is Nigeria so backward and like this bikonu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NFF Should monitor how these Greedy agents destroy the careers of out youth internationals…..Our youth internationals disappear into Oblivion immediately after they Excel in FIFA tournaments because they are taken to obscure leagues by Greedy agents and marketers who call themselves academies…..Now that will be the last we will hear from This supremely gifted Haliru Sarki or else he does something outrageously unthinkable to call the attention of European clubs to him before he fades off……. Many of Out youth internationals where made to shoot to limelight through the hardest possible way because of their first moves outside Nigeria……Boniface had to move mountains before He got the attention of Union saint Gullois in Belgium and in just one season in Belgium he is already been talked about all over Europe,now imagine if he had a better head start in a modest club in Mainstream Europe?……Look at Chikwubuikem Ikwuemesi who is about to move to AC Milan now,he was a youth international and our greedy agents took him to Slovakian league 2 years ago which means he had to do it the hard way to get the attention of Elite European teams……Not all players can be as lucky and determined as Boniface and Chikwubuikem……Many of our youth internationals disappear after the limelight the international tournaments give them and even we the fans tend to even forget about them afterwards…….This needs to stop…..Our players disappear not because they are too old but because of Greedy agents and greedy marketers who disguise as Academies.