Serbian Superliga champions Red Star Belgrade has completed the permanent signing of Franklin Tebo.
Tebo linked up with Red Star Belgrade from Norwegian outfit Sarpsborg.
The centre-back put pen to paper on a three-year contract with the option of another year.
Sarpsborg will receive €3.6m as transfer fee for the player.
The 25-year-old joins compatriot Peter Olayinka at Red Star Belgrade.
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Sarpsborg sporting director Hampus Andersson declared that they did their best to keep Tebo.
“Without going into sums, this is a transfer that makes Tebo one of the biggest sales of a center back from Norway,” Andersson told the official website of his club.
“We have wanted to keep Tebo and in principle have the finances to do so, but with a forced sale, it is our task to manage the money in the best possible way.”
Big Effort By Sarpsborg
He admitted the club did everything to keep the defender , who has been capped by the Super Eagles.
“We have done what we can to keep Tebo in Sarpsborg 08, but for us as a club it is also humanly difficult to resist a player who clearly signals that he wants to make a transfer,” he explained.
By Adeboye Amosu