The 27-year-old sealed a season-long loan move to on Tuesday after seven fruitful years with Udinese in the Italian Serie A.

Badu commanded cult status in his time with the Friulian White-blacks and made over 160 appearances for the Serie A side.

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The Ghanaian anchorman has fond memories of Udinese, who he has describes as “family”.

The former Berekum Arsenal midfielder posted a group photo with the entire Udinese players and technical staff on his Instagram page, accompanied by the message: “What a wonderful family I have been with for the past 7 years. Taking the opportunity to thank the president of Udinese and his family, management members, technical team, medical team, physiotherapists, all my colleague footballers, the media and my lovely supporters of Udinese and my Family and all my lovely supporters. Thank you for everything. God bless us all.”

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Agyemang Badu joined Udinese in 2010 from Ghana Premier League side Berekum Arsenal, and was a member of the Ghana U-20 side that emerged as Africa’s first, and so far only, team to have won the FIFA U-20 World Cup.