Super Eagles goalkeeper, Maduka Okoye joined English premier league outfit, Watford FC, the club confirmed.
Watford on November 8, 2021, announced the signing of Super Eagles goalkeeper Maduka Okoye from Sparta Rotterdam.
Watford on November 8, 2021, announced the signing of Super
Eagles goalkeeper Maduka Okoye from Sparta Rotterdam.
Super Eagles goalkeeper, Maduka Okoye has joined English
premier league outfit, Watford FC, the club confirmed on Monday.
Okoye joined the English club from Dutch side Sparta
Rotterdam.
He was signed on a five-and-a-half-year deal which is
scheduled to begin on January 1, 2022, when the transfer window opens.
However, Okoye will be loaned back to Sparta Rotterdam until
the end of the 2021/22 campaign.
The transfer fee was undisclosed.
“A regular starter for the Dutch club, Okoye has lined up
between the sticks in each of their games so far this season, while he has made
13 appearances for his country since debuting in a 1-1 draw with Brazil in
2019,” the statement from Watford announcing the deal said.
“Born in Germany to a Nigerian father and German mother, the
22-year-old played in the youth ranks at Borussia Mönchengladbach, Bayer
Leverkusen and Fortuna Düsseldorf before moving to Sparta Rotterdam in the
summer of 2020. He won Sparta’s Player of the Season award last term for a
string of stellar performances, helping his side claim an eighth-place finish
in the league.
“The 6ft 6in shot-stopper’s consistent displays for both
club and country have seen him linked with some of Europe’s biggest clubs, but
he has now put pen to paper on a long-term deal with the Golden Boys.”
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