Super Eagles defender Bright Osayi-Samuel has linked up with Sky Bet Championship club, Birmingham City.
The Blues signed the versatile full-back on a free transfer, after he left Turkish Super Lig outfit Fenerbahce will last month.
Osayi-Samuel put pen to paper on a three-year contract.
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The 27-year-old was set to join another Turkish club Besiktas before negotiations broke down over additional bonuses.
The player is no stranger to English football, having come through the youth ranks at Blackpool before securing a move to Championship side QPR in 2017 where he made over 100 appearances at Loftus Road.
He will now link up with his new team-mates ahead of the men’s first team’s pre-season training camp in Portugal.
Osayi-Samuel has also been capped 22 times for Nigeria, and was part of the Super Eagles squad that finished runners-up in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.
By Adeboye Amosu
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What the craze for England by Nigerian players. U cant leave a big club like Fernabache for a relegation fighter like Birmingham city just because its England . Im very disappointed
@4411 Championship is not bad, Semi Ajayi played there. Osayi-Samuel will help Birmingham get promotion. It is beta than Turkey league.
What is with Nigeria and low league clubs??.. this is what I have been saying NFF shy away from Top League Dual National players, i.e. Nwaneri, Adarabioyo but always so proactive with these 2nd division players.
Which kain move be dis……From Fenerbahçe that plays in Europ to Birmingham city that just got promoted from the EFL league one and he thinks he is just going to be promoted to the premiership next season lol…….When you are a national team player, certain moves just need to be avoided lol but again his father is his agent and had asked Beşiktaş for way more money hence the reason he lost that transfer.
The English championship is still miles ahead of that tolotolo league in terms of anything….I still do not support the move anyway but is still better….
Disappointing!
His dad asked for 300k more, Besiktas used that as a negotiation tactics to lower his offer even though were going to get him as a free agent. It’s the right thing not signing with Besiktas, but I think he would have been able to join a better league. I guess Birmingham met his demands.
And these are the kinds of players many of you put trust in to deliver afcon trophy. Hmmm!!!! Yeye dey smell, ask Aribo, he will tell you how far.