{"id":450639,"date":"2026-09-02T03:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T03:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/450639\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T03:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T03:46:08","slug":"folarin-baloguns-transfer-to-everton-falls-through-reports-say-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/450639\/","title":{"rendered":"Folarin Balogun\u2019s transfer to Everton falls through, reports say \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid all the\u00a0last-minute transfers\u00a0in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/tag\/premier-league\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"40013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Premier League<\/a> on Tuesday&#8217;s deadline day, one big one appears to have fallen through.<\/p>\n<p>The move of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/tag\/usmnt\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"395355\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">U.S. international<\/a> Folarin Balogun\u00a0to Everton from Monaco is reported to be off after problems arose during the medical examination, The Athletic has reported.<\/p>\n<p>Balogun is reported to have been at Everton&#8217;s training ground but didn&#8217;t sign. The Everton club didn&#8217;t immediately offer a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Media, including the British-based Press Association, had\u00a0earlier reported widely\u00a0that Everton had offered in the range of 40 million pounds ($54 million).<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Balogun, who has two years remaining on a contract at Monaco, gained attention this summer scoring three goals for the United States as it reached the knockout stage of the World Cup. He was the top scorer for the U.S. team.<\/p>\n<p>He also made headlines after drawing a\u00a0red card\u00a0and a one-game suspension in a 2-0 victory over Bosnia and Herzegovina in a round-of-32 match.<\/p>\n<p>The one-game suspension was deferred by FIFA after U.S. President Donald Trump intervened, allowing Balogun to play in the round of 16. Balogun eventually played in the 4-1 loss to Belgium that ended the U.S. team\u2019s home World Cup run.<\/p>\n<p>The intervention prompted a\u00a0formal complaint\u00a0to FIFA ethics investigators.<\/p>\n<p>Balogun was born in New York but grew up in Britain. He came up through Arsenal\u2019s academy before moving to Middlesbrough, then to the French league with Reims and eventually to Monaco.<\/p>\n<p>He scored 13 goals last season in 30 Ligue 1 matches.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNBC Sports Premier League host Rebecca Lowe previews the 2026-27 Premier League season.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amid all the\u00a0last-minute transfers\u00a0in the Premier League on Tuesday&#8217;s deadline day, one big one appears to have fallen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,18868,1083],"class_list":["post-450639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-premier-league","tag-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}