Leeds United are reportedly among several English clubs interested in signing Fenerbahce’s Bright Osayi-Samuel, according to reports from Turkey. NTV Spor has indicated that Leeds, along with Crystal Palace and Wolves, are monitoring the Nigeria international.Osayi-Samuel has been with Fenerbahce since January 2021, making 122 appearances for the club and scoring five goals during that time. While he has primarily featured as a right-back, he is versatile enough to play further forward, having also played on the right and left wings.The 26-year-old has one more season left on his contract with Fenerbahce, and a return to England appears to be a possibility. Osayi-Samuel began his career with Blackpool before joining Queens Park Rangers, where he spent three and a half years before moving to Turkey.##NAJAVA_MECA_7930110##The strong right-back was born in Anambra State in Nigeria, but moved with his family to Spain. By the time he’d turned ten years old, the family was relocated to England, where Blackpool scouts noticed Bright and recruited him for their youth team. Speaking to Premium Times earlier this year, Nelson Osayi, Bright’s father, explained that his box was meant to play football from a young age.”Bright was born to become a footballer because, right from when he was young, he liked to go with me to the stadium. When I want to go and watch football, he goes with me every time. He has been playing football in small clubs, and he has been doing fine. I had to follow him, ginger him, and encourage him a lot—me and the mother—to where he is now. Bright Osayi – Samuel × QuickSilver | Dans Etmem Gerekiyor Oğlum.. pic.twitter.com/kSM1f7fJpU— 𝐕𝐃𝐒𝐄𝐅𝐄 (@VdsEfe) March 2, 2024 Bright received the call to represent the Super Eagles in late 2022. His father says that’s when he actually got his Nigerian passport.”Before then, he had no Nigerian passport; the Nigerian government had to send the Nigerian embassy from Istanbul and give him his passport. They did the passport for him in his apartment. We are happy that the Nigerian government saw him. We, the parents, were happy, the sisters were happy, and his friends were also happy.”
