{"id":2342,"date":"2023-06-24T14:40:59","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T13:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/06\/24\/read_news-phpnid47857\/"},"modified":"2023-06-24T14:40:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T13:40:59","slug":"read_news-phpnid47857","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/06\/24\/read_news-phpnid47857\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers face competition from Fulham, Valladolid, Anderlecht for Super Eagles striker\u00a0:: All Nigeria Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsbody\">\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allnigeriasoccer.com\/..\/football_pics\/88885Maja.png\" height=\"240\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" alt=\"Rangers face competition from Fulham, Valladolid, Anderlecht for Super Eagles striker\u00a0\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scottish Premiership giants Rangers are in a transfer race for the services of Nigeria international Josh Maja in the summer transfer window, according to reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/sport\/23610698.rangers-target-josh-maja-attracting-interest-europe\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Glasgow Times<\/a>, making reference to\u00a0Voetbal Nieuws, says that\u00a0Rangers face fresh competition from European clubs for the signature of Bordeaux striker Josh Maja.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Per the report, it is also claimed that\u00a0Anderlecht, Fulham and Valladolid are pushing to sign the Sunderland academy product.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Allnigeriasoccer.com exclusively reported last June that\u00a0Anderlecht were interested in Maja but the deal did not eventually happen, with the striker staying at Bordeaux for the 2022-2023 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although Rangers are weighing up a move for the Nigerian, it is believed that he is\u00a0not currently at the top of the shortlist.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Light Blues recently completed the signing of Dutchman Sam Lammers\u00a0from Atalanta and they have been heavily linked with a swoop for another Nigerian striker in Cremonese&#8217;s Cyriel Dessers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Maja&#8217;s agent has close links with Rangers, having brokered the deals that took Joe Aribo and former Golden Eaglets invitee Malcolm Ebiowei to Ibrox.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Maja&#8217;s contract with Bordeaux expires at the end of this month and he&#8217;s unlikely to sign an extension as things stand.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ifeanyi Emmanuel\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Copyright ANS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nAll rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from allnigeriasoccer.com<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allnigeriasoccer.com\/read_news.php?nid=47857\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scottish Premiership giants Rangers are in a transfer race for the services of Nigeria international Josh Maja in the summer transfer window, according to reports.\u00a0 \u00a0 Glasgow Times, making reference to\u00a0Voetbal Nieuws, says that\u00a0Rangers face fresh competition from European clubs for the signature of Bordeaux striker Josh Maja.\u00a0 \u00a0 Per the report, it is also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}