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TRANSFER UPDATE: Bassey Set To Sign £22.9m Deal With Dutch Champions Ajax

Super Eagles defender Calvin Bassey is on the cusp of putting pen to paper on a three-year deal for Dutch Eredivisie champions Ajax reports Prime Business Africa.

Ajax have sanctioned the sale of Lisandro Martinez to Manchester United where he will reunite with former manager Eric ten Hag and considers the Nigerian, Bassey, as a good replacement.

Both players (Bassey and Martinez) are similar in their playing styles. They are able to play at the left back position as well as in the left side of central defence.

English media outlets on Sunday reveal that the massively buult Bassey will travel to Amsterdam to sign a contract worth £18.7m with add-ons that could take the entire deal to £22.9m.

Scottish Premiership giants Rangers bought Bassey for £230,000 in 2020 and his sale to the five-time European champions means that he will be the all-time record sale for the Gers.

Izuchukwu Okosi

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.