{"id":125506,"date":"2019-06-11T09:31:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T08:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=125506"},"modified":"2019-06-11T09:31:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T08:31:46","slug":"transfer-nigerias-most-expensive-wing-back-leaves-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=125506","title":{"rendered":"Transfer: Nigeria&#8217;s most expensive wing-back leaves Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Transfer-Nigerias-most-expensive-wing-back-leaves-Chelsea.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Torino has confirmed the signing of Nigeria full back, Ola Aina from Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>President of the Italian Serie A side, Urbano Cairo announced that they have a deal in place for the versatile defender.<\/p>\n<p>Cairo confirmed that Torino have taken advantage of a purchase option to sign the Super Eagles star on a permanent deal.<\/p>\n<p>He told Football Italia, \u201dWe\u2019ve redeemed Aina for \u20ac10m, as well as Cristian Ansaldi, and Koffi Djidji. Now Torino own all their players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, Aina becomes the most expensive Nigerian fullback in history.<\/p>\n<p>He broke the record previously held by Celestine Babayaro, who was bought by Chelsea for \u00a32.25 million in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Aina spent last season on loan with Torino, playing 30 games as they finished seventh on the table.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently in the camp of the Super Eagles getting set for 2019 African Cup of Nations in Egypt.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Torino has confirmed the signing of Nigeria full back, Ola Aina from Chelsea. President of the Italian Serie A side, Urbano Cairo announced that they have a deal in place for the versatile defender. Cairo confirmed that Torino have taken advantage of a purchase option to sign the Super Eagles star on a permanent deal. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[12434],"class_list":["post-125506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ola-aina"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/125507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}