Everton have reportedly completed a £9m move for Aston Villa’s England-born Nigerian midfielder, Tim Iroegbunam.
According to transfer expert Fabrizio Romano. the 20-year-old looks set to be Everton’s first signing of the summer.
“Everton have completed deal to sign Aston Villa midfielder Tim Iroegbunam for fee around £9m, medical to follow,” Romano wrote on X.
Iroegbulam featured 15 times under Unai Emery last summer – including five times in the Europa Conference League.
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Prior to that, he enjoyed a successful loan at QPR last season, making 32 appearances and scoring twice.
He also has two goals in seven games for England’s U20 side and is a highly-rated youngster that will bolster Sean Dyche’s midfield options.
Iroegbunam is a product of the West Bromwich Albion and Aston Villa academies.
He spent the 2022–23 season on loan at EFL Championship side Queens Park Rangers, and also appeared for England at under-19 and under-20 levels, winning the UEFA European Under-19 Championship with the former in 2022.
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NFF yeye technical department no see this boy? At a time like this when we need good midfielders?
Na when he blow we go begin look him side. Then, it will be too late!
Don’t mind them. This Gusau led NFF will go down as the most inept group to take over football administration in Nigeria. Just take a look at this good player in a position where our 6 is no longer strong. Ndidi is a shadow of himself and can not cover the pitch anymore, this guy can come in to solve the problem. When I mention NFF , it also includes the clueless technical committee.
I understand that they are looking at a Belgian coach who left his job coaching an African side. I hope they are not referring to Tom saintfiet because it will be truly tragic.
That’s the first person my mind went to…..and I think he will be the one cuz they know his salary will be low. Gambia didn’t pay him much lol
Facts, we should stop wasting our time on those clueless buffoons, These guys never built any successful business, so they lacked the managerial and organization skills. Cap most of these young hungry players now, after all the Europeans are doing the same thing. Must we wait and continue to loose all these guys the way Rohr lost EZE.
Nooooo, don’t lie on Rohr about Eze blame the useless NFF president back then who took pictures with him and then posted it online and claimed he will play for Nigeria when the boy had not made up his mind. These bastards especially this Gusau will ruin our football if care is not taken. He refuses to start early preparations for tournaments or qualifiers for our national teams….Ghana’s female team will be playing Japan soon in preparation for the Olympics…….Nigeria has no plan in sight at all.
Bro, this isn’t the first time this nonsense has happened. Gusau and his crew have a track record for this kind of unpreparedness. Our Super Falcons went to the last World Cup without a single friendly match apart from those played months before. And since they did relatively well, it probably makes the NFF think it’s okay to prepare for international competitions without proper warm-up games. That’s the kind of NFF we’ve got in this country.
And now, Japan is playing Ghana because they are in our group. But who are we going to play to prepare for Japan? Only God knows. It’s like they think our players are superheroes who can just show up and magically perform without any preparation. Classic NFF.
Brother, I tire for this rotten maladministration in our football…. Seems we are sinking.