{"id":581632,"date":"2021-02-01T05:48:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T10:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=581632"},"modified":"2021-02-01T05:48:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T10:48:53","slug":"ogc-nice-close-to-signing-barcelona-defender-jean-clair-todibo-on-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/02\/01\/ogc-nice-close-to-signing-barcelona-defender-jean-clair-todibo-on-loan\/","title":{"rendered":"OGC Nice Close to Signing Barcelona Defender Jean-Clair Todibo on Loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OGC Nice are set to announce the signing of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/barcelona\/\" target=\"_self\">Barcelona<\/a> defender <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/88f130ed\/Jean-Clair-Todibo\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jean-Clair Todibo<\/a> today, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1356165561223405569\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The French centre back is set to join the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/category\/ligue-1\/\" target=\"_self\">Ligue 1<\/a> side on loan for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p>According to Romano, the deal includes a \u20ac10 million option to buy for Nice. The deal sees Nice take their tally of signings to two in this <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/football-transfer-news\/\" target=\"_self\">transfer window<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>OGC Nice Set to Sign Barcelona Defender Jean-Clair Todibo on Loan<\/h2>\n<h3>Todibo Spent the First Half of the Season at Benfica<\/h3>\n<p>The talented centre back started his career at Toulouse. Todibo had only made ten league appearances before Barcelona made a move to sign him. However, his time in Spain has been difficult, with the defender struggling to make an impact.<\/p>\n<p>At 20 years of age, Todibo needs game time. He has already had two loan spells out of Barcelona since joining in 2019. He joined Schalke for the 2019\/20 season, making ten appearances before injury halted his time in Germany. The defender spent the first half of this season at Benfica but failed to make a single league appearance with just two coming in cup competitions.<\/p>\n<p>He desperately wants to play football and a return to France offers that. Todibo is set to join an inconsistent Nice side who are enduring a very disappointing season. He is set to be Nice\u2019s second defensive recruit in this transfer window after <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/04\/william-saliba-completes-loan-move-to-ogc-nice\/\" target=\"_self\">William Saliba arrived on loan from Arsenal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Ligue 1 Struggles for Nice<\/h3>\n<p>Adrian Ursea has struggled to turn their season around since <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/12\/04\/patrick-vieira-sacked-by-ogc-nice\/\" target=\"_self\">replacing Patrick Vieira<\/a>. They are languishing in the bottom half and way off the pace in terms of sneaking a European place. Sunday&#8217;s defeat to Saint-Etienne was their third loss in five games. Ursea has overseen just two league victories since taking over.<\/p>\n<p>Todibo is joining a side in need of a confidence boost. He needs the game time to enhance his education and crucially build up some experience. The defender could make his debut in Wednesday\u2019s crucial derby fixture against Monaco.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"uUzJ42i9Rr5m-KgS7zDvRg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1230558485\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'uUzJ42i9Rr5m-KgS7zDvRg',sig:'sLJsygxHu-Ae-7sLm4UyZ44lq1vM7AWYg8qhwGqgw7Q=',w:'594px',h:'431px',items:'1230558485',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OGC Nice are set to announce the signing of Barcelona defender Jean-Clair Todibo today, according to Fabrizio Romano. The French centre back is set to join the Ligue 1 side on loan for the rest of the season. According to Romano, the deal includes a \u20ac10 million option to buy for Nice. The deal sees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3241,"featured_media":581653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1365,6,7188,28],"tags":[464,7335,3370,142,122,3983,1179,136],"class_list":["post-581632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ligue-1","category-barcelona","category-la-liga","category-rumours","category-transfers","tag-barcelona","tag-barcelona-transfers","tag-jean-clair-todibo","tag-la-liga","tag-ligue-1","tag-ogc-nice","tag-transfer-news","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}