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The Kenyan says the striker had to deal with outside pressure when he was ready to perform for the Spanish side three years ago
\nMichael Olunga was frustrated at Girona because of Manchester City pushing to have Olarenwaju Kayode play ahead of him, his agent Idriss Isse has alleged.<\/p>\n
Olunga was loaned to the Spanish side for the 2017\/18 season from Guizhou Hengfeng FC. Kayode arrived at the club from Manchester City and Isse claims the pressure the English side put on Girona to play the Nigerian was the main factor why Olunga felt frustrated.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Michael] Olunga kept on trying but he was not treated fairly although he tried to prove his best by doing everything right. He was training well, sleeping well, eating well,\u201d Isse told Wakeja Online TV.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn training, everything showed he was capable but he did not get that opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Girona is part-owned by Pep Guardiola’s brother Pere, and Isse believes this is the reason the Nigerian forward was playing regularly.<\/p>\n
The Premier League heavyweights had signed Kayode from Austria Vienna on a four-year deal and sent him on a season-long loan to Girona.<\/p>\n
\u201cOlunga was the third-choice striker and the second striker was Kayode who had been loaned to the club by Manchester City,\u201d Isse added.<\/p>\n
\u201cManchester City pushed Girona that they must always play Kayode because they bought him with a lot of money but the coach [Pablo Machin] wanted to play Olunga. He had nothing to do because he was controlled on what to do.<\/p>\n
\u201cI tried to push for the best for him as I was in regular talk with the scouting chief. I insisted it was unfair to deny Olunga matches when he was proving he was doing everything right in training.\u201d<\/p>\n
Isse further revealed in a meeting with the club’s sporting director Quique Carcel was the moment he came to learn exactly why Olunga was not enjoying enough minutes despite his hard work.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had the meeting with the club’s director and he was straight to the point that they had [Christhian] Stuani who was the team’s top scorer and Kayode who they had to play regularly because of Manchester City’s pressure,\u201d the football agent recounted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Africa Press-Nigeria: The Kenyan says the striker had to deal with outside pressure when he was ready to perform for the Spanish side three years ago Michael Olunga was frustrated at Girona because of Manchester City pushing to have Olarenwaju Kayode play ahead of him, his agent Idriss Isse has alleged. Olunga was loaned to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":24630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[174,115],"class_list":["post-24629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-football-in-nigeria","tag-nigerian-sports"],"yoast_head":"\n