Lyon confirms transfer
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A day after the commitment of full-back Rayan Aït-Nouri (24), Manchester City presented the next top-class new addition for the coming season. Wing striker Rayan Cherki (21) was able to leave Olympique Lyon and signed a contract with the Citizens by 2030.
For Cherki, a transfer of 36.5 million euros, as Lyon announced in the evening, Aït-Nouri was also able to leave the Wolverhampton Wanderers for almost 37 million euros in the direction of Manchester, and also for the replacement goalkeeper Marcus Bettinelli (24) from FC Chelsea should also be due. For Cherki, there are also 6 million euros in possible bonus payments. According to the OL, a total of 42.5 million euros could be due. In addition, the French secured a participation in resale of 15 percent for a future profit.
For Cherki, a small transfer theater ends that had relaxed around the Gones’s top talent. Supposedly there is said to have been an oral agreement between him and the club; An informal price tag of EUR 22.5 million that OL did not want to stick to in the end, it was said in reports. According to “L’équipe”, this agreement also included a payment of EUR 3 million that Lyon had to make to Cherki if the association rejects an offer of EUR 22.5 million. He had said that it had already done that when BVB was introduced to the winter of this year. And the first offer from Manchester City also went to Lyon at this height.
Now the move to the team of coach Pep Guardiola is said to have taken over the stage for almost twice. Cherki had even increased its market value to EUR 45 million in the course of the season, but was only contractually bound in Lyon for a year.
“We want to win top talents for the club and it is part of it,” said Man-City director Hugo Viana about Cherkis Change. “He is a player that our scouts have been watching for a long time, and we are all impressed by his skills and creativity. I am convinced that our fans will be enthusiastic about seeing him. There is no doubt that he now has the best prerequisites under Peps management, and I am firmly convinced that he can become a world -class player with our support.”