Nigeria Players Abroad
OFFICIAL: Plymouth Argyle secures loan service of 36 Lion product Mohammed Tijani
By Wale Mustapha
English Championship side, Plymouth Argyle have completed the loan signing of Nigerian striker, Muhammed Tijani from Slavia Prague, Nigeriafootball.ng reports.
The young attacking sensation from horned his skills from popular 36 Lion in Nigeria will br playing under Manchester United legend, Wayne Rooney next season.
Tijani completed his medical test on Monday and put pen to paper on Tuesday on a season long loan deal.
Tijani has played for a number of sides in the Czech top flight in his career, having started out with Karvina as a teenager, before spending three seasons with Banik Ostrava.
The frontman made the move to the Czech capital-side last summer, although he only managed to find the net twice in 25 appearances for Slavia, with his game time limited for the top tier runners-up.
Tijani earned himself a reputation as a top striker in Fortuna Liga during the 22/23 campaign, as he netted 11 times in 32 outings for Banik Ostrava, which earned him a move to the red and white side of Prague.
Having only started ten league games all season, Tijani had limited opportunities to impress in the past 12 months, with two league goals and two Europa League strikes representing his return for the year.
Tijani’s move to Home Park this summer make him the second signing of the Wayne Rooney era, following in the footsteps of Nathanael Ogbeta who joined from Swansea.
His considerable presence could help Argyle to solve their issues in front of goal in the upcoming campaign, with their shot-shy antics seeing them slip into a relegation battle in the second-half of the previous campaign.
The Pilgrims failed to find the net more than once in each of their final 12 games of the Championship season, with the free-flowing football that they began the season with drying up after the departure of Steven Schumacher, as well as loanees Finn Azaz and Luke Cundle.
