Despite being inactive on the pitch due to injury, Nottingham Forest’s Ola Aina has made headlines for his comments on the latest episode of online TV show Channel 4.0. Called ‘Savage Kids and Agony Aunties’, it featured a panel of children and aunties who offer advice to celebrities on their personal dilemmas.
Aina was in quite the dilemma as the former Chelsea academy player revealed that he was in a ‘talking stage’ with another footballer’s girlfriend. His response took both the children and the aunties by surprise.
“My dilemma is I’m in the talking stage with another baller’s girl.”
“I know she likes me back”, said the Nigerian international when asked if the woman in question likes him back or not. The right-back heavily insisted that the woman he’s currently in talks with, prefers his company over her own boyfriends’. When asked by one of the children if he could take this footballer in a 1v1 situation, Aina was more than confident as he cheekily replied, “Easy, I’ve got jink like that.”
He further revealed that he had been in touch with this mysterious woman for a few weeks but refused to disclose the name of the footballer she’s dating.
The group of aunties gave a mature piece of advice to the right-back, urging him to own up to the boyfriend and tell him the truth about his girlfriend. “I advise you to show some integrity, don’t be sneaking around son”, added another auntie.
The kids, however, made Aina aware of the ‘red card’ offense the girl was committing as they let him know that the girl was only talking to him because of his money. In the end, Aina ended up listening to the aunties’ advice after they urged him not to listen to the children.
This show caused quite the controversy amongst fans online, who have called for the Nigerian international to focus on his rehab instead of shamelessly confessing to things like these.
The player later shed light on the incident as he cleared the air claiming the show and its contents were meant purely for entertainment purposes and in no way reflect his actual life off the pitch.
The player took to Snapchat, confessing on his Snapchat story and agreed that the things said in the show were disrespectful and went against his ideologies and claimed he would never say those things on his own accord.
Fans even speculated whether this post-show confession was actually true or just some PR tactics to do some sort of damage control to his reputation on the internet.
Nottingham Forest will expect their first-choice right-back back in action as soon as the next year, just in time for the second-half of the season. His last appearance, before he sustained a hamstring injury during his international duties for Nigeria, for his club came in August when former head coach Nuno Espirito Santos was still in charge of the club, having only made three appearances in the Premier League this season, playing the full length of the game in all of them.
