{"id":2802,"date":"2026-10-28T20:32:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T20:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/28\/iheanacho-explains-decision-to-join-bursaspor-ahead-of-celtic\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T20:32:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T20:32:27","slug":"iheanacho-explains-decision-to-join-bursaspor-ahead-of-celtic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/28\/iheanacho-explains-decision-to-join-bursaspor-ahead-of-celtic\/","title":{"rendered":"Iheanacho Explains Decision To Join Bursaspor Ahead Of Celtic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kelechi Iheanacho has opened up on his decision to join Turkish second-division side Bursaspor after leaving Scottish Premiership giants Celtic.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria international spent the second half of last season on loan at Celtic, where he played an important role in the club\u2019s domestic success.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old striker scored nine goals in 24 appearances across all competitions for the Hoops before making a surprise move to Bursaspor in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>His departure came after Celtic delayed offering him a new contract, paving the way for the forward to begin a new chapter in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Iheanacho has made an impressive start to life at Bursaspor, scoring 16 goals and providing three assists in 12 league appearances.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.completesports.com\/euro-round-up-iheanacho-extends-scoring-streak-arokodare-awaziem-also-on-target\/\">Euro Round-Up: Iheanacho Extends Scoring Streak; Arokodare, Awaziem Also On Target<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Iheanacho Speaks On Bursaspor Transfer<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking about his decision to join the Turkish outfit, the striker revealed that he was not actively thinking about his future during the summer transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be fair, I don\u2019t talk about transfers. I really try to concentrate on my football. The transfer talks were done with the agents and directors,\u201d Iheanacho told <a href=\"http:\/\/bursaspor.org.tv\">Bursaspor TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, I am aware of the transfer talks. I don\u2019t really know how they were contacted, but I was told by my agent that Bursaspor were in contact. He explained everything to me in detail. I was happy, and I said yes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a good and interesting place, according to how he told me about it. We went through everything together, and we saw it was a very concrete situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By Adeboye Amosu <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Complete Sports<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelechi Iheanacho has opened up on his decision to join Turkish second-division side Bursaspor after leaving Scottish Premiership giants Celtic. The Nigeria international spent the second half of last season&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}