Nigeria international center back Leon Balogun has ended speculation about his future ahead of the opening of the transfer window after signing a new deal until the summer of 2022 with Scottish Premiership champions Glasgow Rangers.
Balogun was offered a new contract by the Light Blues after playing a key role as the club secured their 55th league title.
Since joining Rangers as a free agent last summer, the former Mainz and Brighton & Hove man has played 28 games in all competitions and provided three assists to his teammates.
In his first words after putting pen to paper, Balogun told Rangers' official webpage : "Today is a very happy day and a very proud day announcing my contract has been extended for another year.
"I am proud to be a part of this amazing club and I felt that pretty early on I had fallen in love with the club and the working environment, the way the players and the management staff work and the way the club is a big family, I am happy and proud that I can call myself a Rangers player.
"I am happy to be a part of the team that won the league, but what we have been saying recently is we are just getting started and I am happy that I can be a part of this. I said a few weeks in to one of my family, I wish I had been at a club and an environment like this early-on in my career.
"I am very, very happy and proud that this can now be announced. One thing too, I was never going to leave before witnessing a full Ibrox Stadium, and if everyone was happy, I was going to stay."
Apart from the aforementioned teams , Balogun lists Werder Bremen, Hannover, Fortuna Düsseldorf, Türkiyemspor Berlin, Wigan Athletic and SV Darmstadt 98 as his previous clubs.
Igho Kingsley
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