{"id":4250,"date":"2023-11-11T19:45:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T18:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/11\/11\/read_news-phpnid49423\/"},"modified":"2023-11-11T19:45:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T18:45:27","slug":"read_news-phpnid49423","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/11\/11\/read_news-phpnid49423\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League club were priced out of a move for Victor Boniface before transfer to Bayer Leverkusen\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsbody\">\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allnigeriasoccer.com\/..\/football_pics\/2000VB2.png\" height=\"206\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" alt=\"Champions League club were priced out of a move for Victor Boniface before transfer to Bayer Leverkusen\u00a0\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of Germany&#8217;s representatives in this season&#8217;s UEFA Champions League, Union Berlin were priced out of signing Victor Boniface before his summer transfer to Bayer Leverkusen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to German newspaper <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bild.de\/sport\/fussball\/union-berlin\/eiserne-in-leverkusen-boniface-stand-bei-union-auf-der-wunschliste-86048726.bild.html\" rel=\"noopener\">Bild<\/a>, Boniface had been on the radar of Union Berlin during his time in Norway with Bodo\/Glimt but the transfer was difficult to pull off due to\u00a0economic reasons, and the young attacker had already torn his cruciate ligament twice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bayer Leverkusen reached an agreement with\u00a0Royale Union Saint-Gilloise\u00a0to sign the Super Eagles star in exchange for 20 million euros &#8211; a fee that was too expensive for Union Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Union Berlin supporters are aware of the goalscoring abilities of Boniface as he netted twice against the capital club\u00a0in a Europa League round of 16 tie at the\u00a0Stadion An der Alten F\u00f6rsterei back in March.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Boniface is having a banner season at Bayer Leverkusen, having mustered 11 goals from his fifteen games in all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the 22-year-old made it a hat-trick of Bundesliga\u00a0Rookie of the Month wins after beating Xavi Simons and Brajan Gruda to the October prize.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, the Nigeria international can remind Union Berlin&#8217;s traveling fans what they missed when the Iron Ones face off with Bayer Leverkusen at the BayArena on gameweek\u00a011 of the Bundesliga.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\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=49423\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Germany&#8217;s representatives in this season&#8217;s UEFA Champions League, Union Berlin were priced out of signing Victor Boniface before his summer transfer to Bayer Leverkusen.\u00a0 \u00a0 According to German newspaper Bild, Boniface had been on the radar of Union Berlin during his time in Norway with Bodo\/Glimt but the transfer was difficult to pull [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4250","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\/4250","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=4250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}