{"id":817684,"date":"2026-07-23T00:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T00:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/817684\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T00:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T00:58:09","slug":"wolves-striker-tolu-arokodare-allegedly-forces-training-cancellation-after-protesting-his-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/817684\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves striker Tolu Arokodare allegedly forces training cancellation after protesting his transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Wolverhampton striker Tolu Arokodare allegedly forced the cancellation of a training session after he refused to leave the pitch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Sources said the 25-year-old Nigerian sat down and demanded the club let him move to Italian club Fiorentina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Wolves have rejected a bid from the Serie A side, having accepted an offer from Turkish club Trabzonspor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Arokodare&#8217;s actions led to new boss Cesar Peixoto terminating the session.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Arokodare will not be involved in Wolverhampton&#8217;s friendly at Maidenhead United as Wolves continue their pre-season plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Arokodare denied the reports on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;I was very surprised and disappointed to see the media reports today, many of which are inaccurate. <\/p>\n<p>Throughout my career, I have always taken great pride in conducting myself professionally and maintaining the highest training standards,&#8221; he wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radio\/programs\/abc-sport-daily\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC Sport Daily podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">ABC Sport Daily is your daily sports conversation. We dive into the biggest story of the day and get you up to speed with everything else that&#8217;s making headlines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;I remain under contract with Wolves, and my only intention is to fulfil my responsibilities professionally by training, doing my job, and contributing to the team in accordance with that contract.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The latest incident is another flashpoint in the forward&#8217;s career at Wolves after he was disciplined in April following a confrontation with young forward Mateus Mane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Arokodare signed a massive deal after leaving Genk before last season&#8217;s EPL, but scored just three league goals as Wolves finished bottom of the Premier League and were relegated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">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=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">ABC\/Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wolverhampton striker Tolu Arokodare allegedly forced the cancellation of a training session after he refused to leave the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,199761,596,85,393234,393235,23250],"class_list":["post-817684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fiorentina","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-tolu-arokodare","tag-trabzonspor","tag-wolverhampton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817684","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=817684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}