{"id":3181,"date":"2023-08-31T07:06:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T06:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/08\/31\/read_news-phpnid48647\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T07:06:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T06:06:21","slug":"read_news-phpnid48647","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/08\/31\/read_news-phpnid48647\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal sell another Hale End product for around the same fee they received for Iwobi\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\/55583Balogun.png\" height=\"215\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" alt=\"Arsenal sell another Hale End product for around the same fee they received for Iwobi\u00a0\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cap-tied United States international of Nigerian descent, Folarin Balogun has ended his 12-year association with Arsenal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arsenal.com\/news\/folarin-balogun-joins-monaco\" rel=\"noopener\">Through their official website<\/a>, the Gunners confirmed on Wednesday evening that the Hale End Academy graduate has joined French Ligue 1 club AS Monaco in a permanent transfer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although the transfer fee has not been disclosed, Italian transfer market expert Fabrizio Romano revealed that the total package is in excess of 40 million euros &#8211; around the same fee they received for another Hale End graduate Alex Iwobi who joined Everton in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The American-born attacker made his Arsenal debut in a Europa League clash against Dundalk in October 2020 and went on to play a further nine games, the last of which came against Sunderland in the Carabao Cup in December 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He enjoyed loan spells at\u00a0Championship side Middlesbrough in the second half of the 2021-2022 campaign and Ligue 1 team Reims last season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Balogun is now tied to Monaco until June 30, 2028, having put pen to paper on a five-season contract.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He had a successful season at Reims, where he scored 22 goals and provided three assists in 39 matches across all competitions, earning him\u00a0several UNFP Player of the Month nominations.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal have inserted a sell-on clause into his Monaco deal &#8211; a bit less than 20%.<\/p>\n<p>\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\/1696933112490364999\" 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\">Official, confirmed. Folarin Balogun has joined AS Monaco on deal in excess of \u20ac40m package, \u20ac30m plus significant add-ons structure \ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\udde8<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal will have sell-on clause, it was always crucial point in negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>It will be bit less than 20%. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">#AFC<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Smbg2cIrQL\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/Smbg2cIrQL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1696933112490364999?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">August 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Igho Kingsley\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: asmonaco.com\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=48647\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cap-tied United States international of Nigerian descent, Folarin Balogun has ended his 12-year association with Arsenal.\u00a0 \u00a0 Through their official website, the Gunners confirmed on Wednesday evening that the Hale End Academy graduate has joined French Ligue 1 club AS Monaco in a permanent transfer.\u00a0 \u00a0 Although the transfer fee has not been disclosed, Italian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3181","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\/3181","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=3181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}