Chelsea of England have surprisingly opted to keep former Super Eagles’ winger, Victor Moses on their roster for next season, despite discontent growing over his form on loan at Inter Milan of Italy, but The Blues have dropped Ola Aina’s younger brother, Jordan, megasportsarena.com reports.
While Ola Aina is also facing a shaky second season at AS Torino of Italy, his younger sibling will have to find a new club this summer, after being declared surplus to requirements at Stamford Bridge, but fellow-youth team players, midfielder cum winger Faustino Anjorin, striker Ike Ugbo and midfielder Tariq Uwakwe are all staying put beyond this summer.
The biggest surprise, though, is Moses, who has expressed a strong desire to find his loan spell at Inter turned into a full contract and his current deal with Chelsea ends next summer, but he has now been retained by The Blues for next season.
This is despite confirmations that Moses will enter the final 12 months of his contract with The Blues on July 1 and is expected to see out the remainder of the season at Inter, before a decision on his long term future will be made; but the London club appear ready to hold out for a big pay day in the January transfer window or lose the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations winner for free.
On the other hand, Anjorin’s contract with Chelsea runs until the summer of 2025, Ugbo, who has enjoyed loan spells at Barnsley, Milton Keynes Dons, Scunthorpe United and Roda JC of Holland, where he impressed this season, still has a deal until 2021 and Uwakwe is tied until 2022, having inked a fresh three-year deal last summer, but Jordan Aina will have to move on.
Same applies for former Flying Eagles’ invitee, Jayden Bennets, who has been told to leave Chelsea’s English Premier League rivals, Watford upon the expiration of his contract this month, when he will go through The Hornets’ exit door with another Nigerian-born youngster, Jamal Balogun, despite having captained the relegation-doomed club’s under-23 team this season.
Watford wanted to trigger a year’s extension option for Bennetts, but he opted against their wish, thereby paving way for a new deal elsewhere in the summer transfer window for the 18-year-old attacker, who made his professional made against Tranmere Rovers in the English FA Cup in January 2020, while youthful defender, Balogun was a non-playing substitute.
Bennetts is now leaving Watford after ten years, while Balogun spent just a season at Vicarage Road, having joined The Hornets from Reading in 2019, but exciting winger, Joseph Hungbo has received a year’s extension to his contract with the club that look likely to also release the two Nigerian players in their senior squad – Isaac Success and Tom Dele-Bashiru.
The 20-year-old Hungbo, who arrived from Crystal Palace last summer, was one of the standout players for Watford’s under-23 squad this term and made his first team debut against Tranmere Rovers, thereby underscoring his future potentials with the team, but Nigerian-born midfielder, Emmanuel Adebiyi will depart at the end of his scholarship this summer.
