Boro confirm loan of Villa winger ‘Lling-Junior’

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Middlesbrough, a famous team in the Championship, announced the loan of Samuel Iling-Junior, a rising star winger from Aston Villa, to join the team until the end of the season without an option to buy. The

21-year-old English player rose to prominence, playing 45 matches for the Juventus senior team in 2 seasons until the summer, “The Villans” brought him back to England for a total of 17 million euros.

The former Chelsea trainee had not yet made his debut for Villa because in the same transfer market, he was loaned back to Serie A to Bologna, where he played 16 matches and scored 2 goals.

However, Lling-Junior only started for Bologna 3 times and Villa was not satisfied with his playing time, so they called the player back in the winter market.

Iheanacho will be looking to add to his career tally of 85 goals, the majority of which came across seven seasons at Leicester, before heading for southern Spain last summer.

He has scored just three times in 11 appearances this season – all of them in the Copa Del Rey – and has made only five league starts.

Iling-Junior, 21, was in Chelsea’s academy before moving to Juventus in 2020, then on to Villa last summer, since when he has spent the first half of the season on loan in Italy with Serie A side Bologna.

He scored twice in 16 appearances in all competitions for Bologna, including a winning goal against Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League in December.

Michael Carrick’s Boro, แทงบอล UFABET ราคาดีที่สุด ไม่มีขั้นต่ำ who were seventh in the Championship going into Monday’s Tees-Wear derby with fourth-placed Sunderland, have now made six signings in this transfer window.

Middlesbrough took the opportunity to negotiate until the last day of the market, and they got the player who is a player from the England U-20 national team to strengthen Michael Carrick’s team, which is ranked 7th, in the race for promotion to the top league.