{"id":84544,"date":"2013-05-21T10:47:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T10:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/05\/ghana-midfielder-derek-boateng-confirms-sealing-fulham-deal\/"},"modified":"2013-05-21T10:47:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T10:47:21","slug":"ghana-midfielder-derek-boateng-confirms-sealing-fulham-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/05\/21\/ghana-midfielder-derek-boateng-confirms-sealing-fulham-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Midfielder Derek Boateng Confirms Sealing Fulham Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<p><span class=\"small-txt c15\">Posted On Tuesday, 21st May 2013<\/span><\/p>\n<div readability=\"93.3625678119\">\n<div id=\"attachment_220450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter c16\" readability=\"7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-220450\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2013\/05\/0babDerek-Boateng-300x277.jpg\" alt=\"Derek Boateng has signed a two-year deal with Fulham\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derek Boateng has signed a two-year deal with Fulham<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>By Patrick Akoto<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ghana midfielder Derek Boateng has confirmed he has signed a two-year deal with English side Fulham as exclusively reported by GHANAsoccernet.com on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old will start training with the English Premier League side on Tuesday after sealing the deal in London on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Boateng moves to the Craven Cottage as a free agent after months of intense speculations.<\/p>\n<p>Fulham saw their move for the Dnipro enforcer fall through in the last two windows but manager Martin Jol persisted and finally landed his man.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghanaian international has confirmed he has signed the dotted lines for the \u00a0London side after snubbing offers from Greek giants Olympiakos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have signed a two-year deal with Fulham and will be training with them for the first time today (Tuesday),\u201d Boateng told Accra-based local radio station Happy FM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe it\u2019s a good move and I\u2019m finally happy to see this deal concretised.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The move is a dream come true for Boateng who has been yearning to play in the English Premier League before he retires from the game.<\/p>\n<p>Boateng is a journey man having played in several countries including Spain, Greece, Germany, Israel and Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>The club have been heavily\u00a0linked <\/p>\n<div class=\"c17\"><noscript><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.fastclick.net\/w\/get.media?sid=55365&amp;m=6&amp;tp=8&amp;d=s&amp;c=1&amp;vcm_acv=1.3\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>\u00a0with the Ghana international over the past two transfer windows but grabbed their man after the third time of asking.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, as a free agent, there would seem to be little\u00a0risk\u00a0in moving for a player that comes with reasonable pedigree.<\/p>\n<p>Capped 46 times, the central midfielder is full of energy and has an enviable work rate \u2013 both traits that would complement our current crop.<\/p>\n<p>However, he\u2019s a player that is slow to adapt, having played all across Europe for eight different\u00a0clubs\u00a0and yet only excelling in a couple of those stints.<\/p>\n<p>He was superb with AIK in Sweden, and impressed with Beitar Jerusalem and Getafe.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, though, he has failed to find his feet and, now that he has reached his thirties, there is not long left for Boateng to prove himself.<\/p>\n<p>Fulham could well bring the best out of the player, as we have done with many others in the past, but it could also prove to be a transfer fraught with risk.<\/p>\n<div><noscript><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.fastclick.net\/w\/get.media?sid=55365&amp;m=6&amp;tp=8&amp;d=s&amp;c=1&amp;vcm_acv=1.3\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Posted On Tuesday, 21st May 2013 Derek Boateng has signed a two-year deal with Fulham By Patrick Akoto Ghana midfielder Derek Boateng has confirmed he has signed a two-year deal with English side Fulham as exclusively reported by GHANAsoccernet.com on Monday. The 30-year-old will start training with the English Premier League side on Tuesday after sealing the deal in London on Monday. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}