No Premier League team has as much African interest as Chelsea, where the Blues squad is rife with continental talent from the first team to the academy.
The club’s approach to recruitment has led to a sprawling squad full of players who realistically stand little chance of ever breaking into the club’s starting XI.
New coach Maurizio Sarri will bring new ideas and a new strategy to the club, while eventually, he’ll sign his own players to fit into his idiosyncratic style.
However, it remains to…
Kenneth Omeruo’s regression has now come full circle.
His latest omission from Gernot Rohr’s Nigeria squad is a humiliating indication of just how far the previously highly regarded former junior international has fallen out of national-team favour.
From a starting centre-back under the late Stephen Keshi, his international career has tanked to a previously unfathomable low.
As a member of the 2009 U-17 World Cup silver medal-winning squad, Omeruo was regarded as one of Nigeria’s brightest young…
African players have been the subjects of some of the more eye-catching moves of the window across Europe this week.
Here are five that have got us particularly excited over the last seven days.
Kenneth Omeruo, Chelsea > Kasimpasa, Loan: Omeruo’s decision to sign a new contract at Chelsea went down badly with some Nigeria fans, as while it’s easy to understand why the defender retains hope of making his mark at Stamford Bridge, his unsettled career to date has not been conducive to professional…
Kenneth Omeruo marked his fourth year as a Chelsea player by signing a new contract to keep him at the club until 2020, but was immediately shipped off on loan again to Kasimpasa in Turkey.
The new contract is the fourth the Nigeria internationa…
Chelsea boss Antonio Conte remained tight-lipped over the potential transfer of Diego Costa to China in the offseason.
Chelsea defender Kenneth Omeruo has told the BBC it is no longer his “immediate priority” to play for the club as he searches for a permanent way out of the “frustrating” mass loan system.
Omeruo, playing on loan in Turkey with Alanyaspor this season, has yet to make a single first-team appearance for Chelsea since signing from Standard Liege in January 2012, instead being sent out to ADO Den Haag, Middlesbrough and another Turkish club in Kasimpasa.
Kurt Zouma and Nathan Ake are ahead of Omeruo…