MK Dons have signed Nottingham Forest ace Gboly Ariyibi on a season-long loan, it has been confirmed.
The 22-year-old attacker will spend the 2017-18 campaign at the Stadium MK, and he becomes the club’s second signing in four days after Ethan Ebanks-Landell’s arrival from Wolverhampton Wanderers on Friday.
The SkyBet League One club announced the news on their official website and on their official Twitter account on Monday afternoon.
BREAKING!#mkdons make second signing in four days…https://t.co/FcqV1cHXOm
— MK Dons FC (@MKDonsFC) July 17, 2017
Ariyibi is Dons manager Robbie Neilson’s sixth signing of the summer as he follows Conor McGrandles, Ousseynou Cisse, Peter Pawlett, Wieger Sietsma and the aforementioned Ebanks-Landell to the club.
Forest signed the 22-year-old from Chesterfield in January of this year for an undisclosed fee, but he is yet to make his debut for the club.
He had been a regular in the Spireites’ forward line in the first-half of the 2016-17, and he played 36 league and cup games, which yielded four assists.
Ariyibi is primarily a right-winger, but he is also comfortable on the left-flank and in the middle of an attacking three.
The 22-year-old began his career in Southampton’s academy before leaving for Leeds in 2013, and then signing for Chesterfield a year later.
He has been capped on four occasions by USA Under-23s, and he has netted one goal.