{"id":817103,"date":"2026-07-22T18:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/817103\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T18:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:42:08","slug":"wolves-striker-tolu-arokodare-forces-training-to-be-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/817103\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves: Striker Tolu Arokodare forces training to be cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wolves striker Tolu Arokodare forced the cancellation of a training session after he refused to leave the pitch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport has been told the 25-year-old Nigeria international sat down and demanded the club let him move to Fiorentina. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wolves have rejected a bid from the Serie A side, having accepted an offer from Turkish club Trabzonspor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arokodare&#8217;s actions led to new boss Cesar Peixoto terminating the session on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arokodare will not be involved in Wednesday&#8217;s friendly at Maidenhead United as Wolves continue their pre-season plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The latest incident is another flashpoint in the forward&#8217;s career at Molineux after he was disciplined in April following a confrontation with young forward Mateus Mane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arokodare signed for \u00a324m from Genk last summer but scored just three league goals as Wolves finished bottom of the Premier League and were relegated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And the incident presents an early challenge for Peixoto just weeks into his reign after he replaced Rob Edwards in a surprise move last month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 46-year-old, capped once by Portugal in his playing career, moved from Gil Vicente and will be aiming to return Wolves to the Premier League at the first attempt. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wolves striker Tolu Arokodare forced the cancellation of a training session after he refused to leave the pitch.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-817103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}