{"id":5652,"date":"2024-01-29T22:04:24","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T21:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2024\/01\/29\/read_news-phpnid50282\/"},"modified":"2024-01-29T22:04:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T21:04:24","slug":"read_news-phpnid50282","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2024\/01\/29\/read_news-phpnid50282\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecce make offer to sign Super Eagles midfielder Dele-Bashiru; Porto also interested\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsbody\">\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allnigeriasoccer.com\/..\/football_pics\/71054FDB.png\" height=\"240\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" alt=\"Lecce make offer to sign Super Eagles midfielder Dele-Bashiru; Porto also interested\u00a0\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Italian Serie A club Lecce are interested in signing Hatayspor&#8217;s Nigeria international Fisayo Dele-Bashiru.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/transfer-centre\" rel=\"noopener\">Sky Sports UK<\/a>,\u00a0Lecce have made an offer to sign Hatayspor midfielder Fisayo Dele-Bashiru, who is also drawing interest from Portuguese setup Porto.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Manchester City academy product had been linked with Italian champions Napoli and Turkish giants Fenerbahce around two months ago but it now seems as though Lecce are in pole position for his signature..<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lecce are in the market for midfield reinforcements and will be hoping to get the deal over the line before the close of the January transfer window.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dele-Bashiru\u00a0took his game to another level following his move to\u00a0Hatayspor from Sheffield Wednesday , registering eight goal involvements in his first eleven games in the Turkish Super Lig &#8211; a form that earned him a first-ever call-up to the Nigeria national team for friendlies against Saudi Arabia and Mozambique last October.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old would have been Nigeria&#8217;s second youngest player at the ongoing 2023 Africa Cup of Nations after Club Brugge&#8217;s Raphael Onyedika but his name was omitted from the final 25-man squad.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dele-Bashiru offers a bit of versatility as he can play wide, can play as an attacking midfielder and box-to-box midfielder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He has two and a half years left on his contract with Hatayspor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ifeanyi Emmanuel<\/p>\n<p>\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=50282\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian Serie A club Lecce are interested in signing Hatayspor&#8217;s Nigeria international Fisayo Dele-Bashiru.\u00a0 \u00a0 According to Sky Sports UK,\u00a0Lecce have made an offer to sign Hatayspor midfielder Fisayo Dele-Bashiru, who is also drawing interest from Portuguese setup Porto.\u00a0 \u00a0 The Manchester City academy product had been linked with Italian champions Napoli and Turkish giants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5652","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\/5652","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=5652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}