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The Sun
23-06-2025
- Business
- The Sun
Tottenham flop, 31, who cost club £8m has contract ripped up by Romanian club as career hits new low
Tottenham flop Clinton Njie has hit a new career low - with a Romanian club ripping up his contract. The Cameroon striker joined Spurs from Lyon for £8.3million in 2015. 2 2 However, he failed to start a single Premier League game, and remained goalless in 14 senior appearances. Njie went on to play for Marseille, Dynamo Moscow and Turkish club Sivasspor before moving to Rapid Bucharest last September. He signed a deal until 2026, with the Romanians announcing him in a bizarre video alongside former US president Bill Clinton. But Njie made just a dozen appearances, scoring twice, and has not played for the capital city side since February 2. They have now parted company with the 31-year-old, who has won 42 Cameroon caps. Rapid issued a terse statement on social media. They announced: "FC Rapid and Cameroonian striker Clinton Njie reached an amicable agreement for the termination of the collaboration. "Thank you, Clinton! Good luck in your career." Njie said: "I thank everyone at Rapid for this period, colleagues, staff and supporters. "It was an intense experience, in a club with a special history and atmosphere. "I wish the boys the best of luck next season, and I hope Rapid gets where it deserves to be." Rapid finished sixth in Romania 's Liga 1. They last won the national title in 2003. To add to Njie's woes, a French court has ordered him to pay a car rental firm £56,000. The trial at Aix-en-Provence heard the footballer leased a Bentley worth £275,000 in 2017, but stopped making payments when he left for Dynamo Moscow two years later.
The Courier
12-05-2025
- Sport
- The Courier
Former Dundee United ace makes Serie A debut – and helps blow title race wide open
Former Dundee United favourite Benjamin Siegrist made his long-awaited Serie A debut on Sunday evening – and helped to blow the title race wide open. Siegrist, 33, joined Genoa from Rapid Bucharest in January but has served as understudy to Nicola Leali between the sticks. However, boss Patrick Vieira gave Siegrist the nod against table-topping Napoli and he turned in a solid showing during a breathless 2-2 draw at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium. Scotland international Scott McTominay teed up both of Napoli's goals – scored by Romelu Lukaku and Giacomo Raspadori – but Genoa hit back twice through an Alex Meret own goal and Johan Vasquez. The result means Champions League finalists Inter Milan are just ONE point behind the Neapolitans going into the last two games of the season. Siegrist made 145 appearances for the Tangerines following his arrival in the summer of 2018, playing in key part in the club returning to the Premiership and consolidating in the top-flight. That earned him a switch to Celtic in 2022, but he never came close to cementing a starting berth and played just two games in two years – League Cup wins over Motherwell and Ross County. The ex-Aston Villa kid joined Rapid Bucharest, managed at the time by current Dunfermline boss Neil Lennon, last summer but lasted just six months before making the switch to Italy.
