“If you don’t come, I’ll cut your head off” – Onyekuru reveals the deep friendship he shares with Moroccan star

The Tremendous Eagles winger is presently on mortgage at Turkish top-flight membership Adana Demirspor having joined from Greek giants Olympiacos

Nigeria worldwide ahead Henry Onyekuru has revealed he’s nice pals with Younès Belhanda and that the Moroccan midfielder was one of many causes he signed for Adana Demirspor.

Belhanda spent 4 years at Galatasaray between 2017 and 2021 and it was on the Istanbul-based membership that he met and have become pals with Onyekuru.

Onyekuru on the time was on the payroll of Everton however he joined Gala on mortgage forward of the 2018-2019 season, having did not safe a piece allow to play within the Premier League.

The Nigerian attacker went on to get pleasure from his most profitable yr in Turkey, serving to Galatasaray to a league and cup double triumph.

Onyekuru was one in every of Gala’s greatest performers and prime scorers because the Yellow-Blacks romp to their twenty second league win in historical past. His 14 objectives that marketing campaign had been greater than Robinho managed for Sivasspor/Başakşehir (12) and Anthony Nwakaeme netted for Trabzonspor (10).

Monaco signed Onyekuru on the finish of that marketing campaign however he returned to Galatasaray and his buddy Belhanda throughout two brief spells in 2020 and 2021.

In the summertime of 2021, Olympiacos accomplished the everlasting switch of Onyekuru from Monaco on a four-year deal.  Belhanda additionally ended his affiliation with Gala and switched to Adana. 

Tremendous Eagles star Onyekuru, nevertheless, struggled to settle in Greece and was open to a transfer overseas after a yr.

His previous love Galatasaray had been the frontrunners for his signature, with Fenerbahce and Besiktas additionally reportedly fascinated with him.

However Onyekuru finally moved to Adana Demirspor and he reveals, with a head-cutting joke, that reuniting along with his long-time buddy Belhanda was one of many causes he signed for the Blue Lightnings.

“I believe if I bear in mind appropriately, Belhanda stated one thing like ‘In the event you don’t come to Adana Demirspor, I’ll lower your head off, I’ll break your head’. (Laughing) After all, it was a joke,” Onyekuru stated, as per Fanatik.

“The rationale why he needed to is that we have already got a friendship from the previous, we performed collectively on the sphere. On this event, he requested me to come back, pondering that we’d higher perceive and adapt to one another on the sphere. It was such a second.”

Onyekuru’s first 5 months at Adana Demirspor have been productive with the 25-year-old netting 4 objectives and contributing two assists in 12 matches for the Turkish aspect.

His contribution has been essential to Adana Demirspor’s rising to the third place on the Tremendous Lig desk with 24 factors, 5 fewer than leaders Fenerbahce.