Bundesliga club Hoffenheim have agreed a deal with Olympique Lyonais to sign Gift Orban.
This is according to a report from transfer expert and Italian journalist Fabrizio Romano (via Get French Football).
It is no secret that Lyon will have to sell players in the January transfer window.
The club were handed a provisional relegation to Ligue 2 by the DNCG in November and in order to avoid that fate, they must sell players before the end of the campaign.
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Orban is one of the players earmarked for a departure and there is interest in the striker.
The 22-year-old has been struggled to impress at Lyon ever since his arrival last January for a fee of €14m.
L’Équipe rpeorted earlier this week that Hoffenheim had submitted a bid of €10m, which was close to Lyon’s €12m valuation of the player.
An agreement has now been reached and personal details must now be agreed for the Nigerian to complete the move to the Bundesliga.
Another Ligue 1 outfit RC Lens and Galatasaray had both been strongly linked with a move for Orban, however, it appears that the striker is now Germany bound.
Orban had a slow start in his first season at Lyon, scoring only one league goal in 13 appearances.
He score twice in the Coupe de France in three games as Lyon reached the final – however, Orban was unused substitute in the final which they lost 2-1 to PSG.
At the end of the season, Orban admitted that it had been difficult to settle in.
This season he has scored two goals in three appearances in the French topflight.
By James Agberebi
