New signing at Glasgow Rangers of Scotland, Nnamdi Ofoborh has received a very welcome from the Scottish Premiership leaders’ sports director, Ross Wilson, who was reeling lyrical after the 21-year lad signed a four-year contract.
Megasportsarena.com gaherd that the deal sees the Nigerian former youth national team, Flying Eagles’ winger join compatriots, Leon Aderemi Balogun and Joe Aribo at Ibrox Stadium, following the successful switch from English Championship side, AFC Bournemouth.
The ever-smiling lad, who was born in England to Nigerian parents, joined The Cherries from Tottenham Hotspur in July 2016, having impressed during a trial spell before he promoted to the first team a year later.
He has already featured five games for Bournemouth across all competitions this season, but a third part of the deal taking him to Rangers will see him spend the remaining part of the season on loan with English lower division side, Wycombe Wanderers.
Ofoborh, who played for Nigeria at the 2019 FIFA U20 World Cup in Poland, will hope to deliver impressive performances to boost his chances of securing a call-up to the Super Eagles, having previously played a vital role in helping Wycombe gsin promotion to the Sky Bet Championship with 25 appearances during the 2019/20 campaign.
Ofoborh’s current contract with Bournemouth is set to expire in the summer after he rejected a contract extension to remain at Vitality Stadium before agreed to join Rangers next summer, and Wilson has now expressed his delight with the agreement reached to sign the midfielder.
Wilson enthused: “We look forward to welcoming Nnamdi to our group in the summer. We are extremely impressed by his qualities and he is a player that has real progression in him. He has a positive and determined personality.
“(He) is very much looking forward to becoming a Rangers player at the end of this season. In the meantime, we are really pleased that Nnamdi will play week in week out until the end of the season in the Championship at Wycombe, a club he excelled at previously under Gareth Ainsworth.”
