{"id":2597,"date":"2023-07-27T20:36:39","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T19:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/07\/27\/read_news-phpnid48204\/"},"modified":"2023-07-27T20:36:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T19:36:39","slug":"read_news-phpnid48204","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/07\/27\/read_news-phpnid48204\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabrizio Romano reveals Fulham will choose between Bassey and Southampton&#8217;s Ghana star\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\/22525Bassey.png\" height=\"183\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" alt=\"Fabrizio Romano reveals Fulham will choose between Bassey and Southampton's Ghana star\u00a0\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Italian transfer market expert Fabrizio Romano has provided an update on Fulham&#8217;s search for a left-footed central defender.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Cottagers have two African players in mind for the left-sided centre-back role, Ajax Amsterdam&#8217;s Super Eagles star Calvin Bassey and Southampton&#8217;s Ghana international\u00a0Mohammed Salisu.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fulham have already reached a club-to-club agreement with Ajax\u00a0 on a 21 million euros fee for the transfer of the Nigerian.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The London club are now in talks with Bassey, who would undergo a medical this week if\u00a0\u00a0personal terms can be agreed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Romano has claimed that talks with the Leicester City academy product are very advanced.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Salisu,\u00a0who would be playing in the Championship with Southampton in the upcoming season if he is not sold, has also been linked with Monaco and is reportedly in talks with the Ligue 1 club.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bassey\u00a0joined Ajax Amsterdam in the summer of 2022 from Scottish side Glasgow Rangers for a fee of twenty three million euros and has a contract with the four-time European champions until June 2027.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brighton &amp; Hove have also been linked with Bassey but Fulham appear to be in pole position to sign the 23-year-old.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"embeddedContent oembed-provider- oembed-provider-twitter\" data-align=\"none\" data-oembed=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1683381500958351361\" data-oembed_provider=\"twitter\" data-resizetype=\"noresize\" data-title=\"m\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Understand Fulham have decided to go for just one left footed CB between Calvin Bassey and Mohammed Salisu despite talks for both \u26aa\ufe0f\u26ab\ufe0f <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FulhamFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">#FulhamFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Negotiations are very advanced with Bassey; club now hoping for medical tests this week. Salisu deal on but AS Monaco also keen. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iEkh7VnCGW\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/iEkh7VnCGW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1683381500958351361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">July 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ifeanyi Emmanuel\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: ajax.nl<\/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>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allnigeriasoccer.com\/read_news.php?nid=48204\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian transfer market expert Fabrizio Romano has provided an update on Fulham&#8217;s search for a left-footed central defender.\u00a0 \u00a0 The Cottagers have two African players in mind for the left-sided centre-back role, Ajax Amsterdam&#8217;s Super Eagles star Calvin Bassey and Southampton&#8217;s Ghana international\u00a0Mohammed Salisu. \u00a0 Fulham have already reached a club-to-club agreement with Ajax\u00a0 on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2597","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\/2597","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=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}