Izuchukwu OkosiTottenham Hotspur has reportedly made contacts with the camp of Nigerian striker Gift Orban over a move to White Hart Lane this summer following the sale of star striker Harry Kane to Bayern Munich.
Kane who has 208 Premier League goals and chasing the 260 goal mark of Alan Shearer in the Premier League made the move to the Bavarian albeit he had the worst of starts to his Bayern career after the club suffered a 3-0 defeat to RB Leipzig in the German Super Cup final on Saturday night.
Bayern paid the sum of £100m to acquire the services of the England captain who came off the substitute bench in the Cup final.
Gent’s star striker Orban, who is expected to make his Nigeria debut this year after a string of high-profile performances in the calender year, is reportedly one of the players on the shortlist of manager Ange Postecoglou.
Spurs’ first choice in the striking role as replacement for Kane according to the Daily Mail was Nottingham Forest’s Brennan, Johnson but his counterpart, Steve Cooper is reluctant to sanction the departure of his promising youngster.
However, they have reportedly been in contact with Orban’s representatives and are expected to make offers for the 21-year-old, who is valued at £30m by Gent in the coming days according to Sacha Tavolieri.
Orban opened his goals account for the new campaign with a hat-trick in Gent’s 5-0 drubbing of Pogon Szczecin in the first leg of the third qualifying round of the Europa Conference League played on Thursday.
Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc.
In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio.
He worked there for 13 years until October 2017.
Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch.
He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations.
Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line.
Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.
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