Kelechi Iheanacho has explained the motivation behind his surprise move to Turkish second-tier side Bursaspor.
The Nigeria international completed a free transfer to the Green Crocodiles last week, despite attracting strong interest from Scottish Premiership champions Celtic.
The 29-year-old signed a three-year contract with the ambitious Turkish club.
Iheanacho Impressed With Bursaspor Ambition
Iheanacho said Bursaspor’s long-term vision and ambitious project convinced him to make the move.
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“Bursaspor is a big team in Turkey. I heard they won the Turkish Super League before. When I hear the project they have and how they want to go all the way to the Super League and to play in Europe as well, I said this is a big project and it’s very good for me to come and be involved and help the team,” Iheanacho told the club’s official website.
“I asked my agent to make sure he do everything possible to make sure I come to Bursaspor. There’s a big project and I hope I’m going to be part of it and I’m going to help the team.”
Bursaspor Promotion Target
Iheanacho stated that the players are determined to secure promotion to the top-flight in the 2026/27 season.
“We know what we want as a team, but collectively as a team hopefully we achieve the promotion. That is our main target before the individual target of a player. My target is for us to go to the Super League,” added the former Manchester City player.
By Adeboye Amosu
12 Comments
Nacho stop lying with all this excuses just for you to join second division Turkish team. Common you tested the water and they accepted your salary demand. I don’t like this move for you and your chances of playing in the SE is gone ablaze. Yes you will be highest go scorer in the team and league but age is not on your side for this shallow move.
@tarara climbine, ok naa, but why har yuh so wiked? very soon yuh wii be ask yersel queshion and den yuh wii be answerit it again by yersel..hmmm Ahu do yuh like a dis ???
Mr Four Four Two, you have too much time in your hands. Why don’t you donate it to a charitable cause or take up a more productive hubby than creating multiple crass Identities whereupon you write and reply to yourself. You are a fool. At fool as an adult is likely to be a fool forever. The most pathetic and pitiful aspect of your case is that, when you use your seminal 4-4-2 identity, you actually make sense. You do submit sensible submissions. But when you agree with Kel on Iwobi, or me on Iheanacho, you put on your Egungun masquerade to dance around this platform like the lunatic that that alter ego has turned you into.
What a shame, what a pity, what a tragedy. Your parents invested much money in you, your family look up to you, only to discover that you are a multi identity miscreant online.
You are a disgrace!
So long as Iheanacho plays regularly, I think he has a route back to the national team in spite of the league he plays.
That said, Chelle is looking at some strong exciting striking dual nationality prospects which might be more of the reason why Iheanacho could miss out on future Super Eagles invites.
As an unabashed Iheanacho fan, I am happy for him for this move: he will earn the wages Celtic refused to pay; he will play regularly in a club where the fanbase idolise him; and (like Frank Onyeka in England) he has the opportunity to help this team gain promotion and play in the elite league the next season.
This is a long-term ambition for Iheanacho. If he plays his cards right, works hard(er), trains tough(er) and stay focused, he will be star in this club and be a key part of Nigeria’s 2030 world cup qualification ambitions if Chelle chooses to look at his directions.
@ deo, see ehn, yuh sure say efrytings are ok wit a yhu? hmm, wit al dis yer big big grammar, na so yuh wit sense nor dey see eye to eye?, yuh wit common sense be like enemys lmaoo
pesin wey nor fit hold grand for celtics wey dem fron dere bance am, hin come manage find small space for inside div 2 for trukish an nah hin yuh dey claim say go stii entered SE of Nigeria?? LMAAOOO
Nna ehn, yuh be really fool! Yuh needed doktors to sheck wether yuh are ok. lmaoo
Afry all men include de couch Chelleis dey looking froward dey find youths but yuh siddon dere dey backslide like michael blackson lol
Mr Four Four Two aka Yaishman et al. You call me a fool for expressing my opinion. You and all the multiverse multiple multitudinous names you use on the platform are idiotic moronic degenerate reprobates.
From your Yabaoh to Digital and all, you are a fool. The only person that needs a doctor is a demented degenerate dumb arse hole like you who uses multiple identities to make a fool of himself.
If you have balls between your legs, if you have cajones, if you have the temerity, use your seminal Four Four Two handle to mess with me. Then you will regret the day your mother gave birth to a multiple identities idiot like you.
What did you expect for this guy before @Digital? You want to competit with Yamal for baca or what.
This is one of the wiked players to have ever played for eagles.
Yuh ehn, be real fool lmaaoo, dis wan wey efry body dey look fowrad na hin yuh face back dey bakslide like mikael jackson ba? In fact, yuh har a very myopics! long tins chaii! lol
Just shut up Four Four Two, just shut up. Enough! You have made enough fool of yourself for one day. Go and have a beer, drink Gulder or smoke Target cigarette (for those old enough to remember this brand).
@tarara de parara climbing Lmaoo!
see crase pesin here for csn ooo lool
See how tarara de parara climbi and digatile all con together dey form here like say em dey yarn among denselfs when eet ees al just a wiked tings.
ok naa, @digitale, wike, tarara de woke kolomental fron willoughby area off yaba – we see yuh – no worry, men don contact Yaba under bridge an dem confirm say wan inmate bin escaped fron dere side. lmaoo, In fact nna ehn, csn nor safe oo, dem go soon con here come hold yuh for work bros lmaaoo
Wike, I won’t waste my time responding to that miscreant. Four Four Two is the following:
– Yaishman
– Yabaoh (now retired)
– Digital
And several others.
The guy is a shameless pathetic loser who likes to use his alter egos to insult people he disagrees with.
He is a disgrace! A disgrace to himself, a disgrace to those who invested money in his education, a disgrace to his community.
He is a septic tank full of waste water.
At the end of the day Deo na my friend just like Kel, Greenturf and former Ugo before his appetite for football change into something else. At Deo na your man your dey yab o. I no be 442, change my id make i dey catch fun because the fight for this forum for years don too much. My signature always end with something and in due time I will identify myself.