Manchester City sign Egypt star Omar Marmoush from Eintracht Frankfurt

After weeks of speculation, Marmoush agrees a woody to enactment with Premier League champions until the summertime of 2029.

Manchester City person announced the signing of Eintracht Frankfurt guardant Omar Marmoush for a reported archetypal interest of astir $72.6mn.

“The 25-year-old Egyptian striker has completed a determination to the Etihad Stadium connected a four-and-a-half-year deal, meaning helium volition stay astatine the Club until the summertime of 2029,” City said successful a connection connected Thursday.

“This is simply a time I volition ne'er forget,” Marmoush said aft signing up with the English Premier League champions.

“To motion for Manchester City – 1 of the champion teams successful the satellite – is an astonishing feeling. I americium delighted, my household are truthful proud, and we are each precise blessed to beryllium present successful Manchester.

“With Pep, his method unit and the world-class facilities here, players person everything they request to improve. That was truly enticing for maine erstwhile I had the accidental to travel here.”

Marmoush is City’s 3rd signing of the January transportation model pursuing the arrivals of defenders Abdukodir Khusanov and Vitor Reis.

The erstwhile Bundesliga star’s declaration is understood to see a imaginable further $5mn successful add-ons

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Born successful Cairo successful 1999, Marmoush stood retired aboriginal successful the academy of nine Wadi Degla successful the Egyptian Premier League. At conscionable 17, helium was promoted to the archetypal squad and joined Wolfsburg’s reserves a twelvemonth later.

At Wolfsburg, Marmoush initially struggled for consistency and crippled time, resulting successful loans to St Pauli and Stuttgart.

The striker moved to Frankfurt connected a escaped transportation earlier the 2023-2024 play and scored 12 goals successful 29 league games.

Marmoush’s improvement has drawn inevitable comparisons to his compatriot Mohamed Salah, but the Liverpool superstar warned against specified correlations.

“Omar has large imaginable and is an important subordinate for his squad and the nationalist squad currently, but I anticipation we enactment distant from the thought of comparisons due to the fact that it volition enactment him nether pressure,” Salah said successful November.

“Do not comparison him to me. Do not accidental the ‘new Mohamed Salah’. Let him unrecorded his career. Comparing a subordinate astatine the opening of his vocation with different who has achieved a batch implicit galore years does not assistance him.”

City’s manager of shot Txiki Begiristain said Marmoush was an “accomplished and breathtaking forward”.

“He’s had an outstanding season, and each clip we person watched him, helium has influenced matches,” helium said.

“He has each the attributes a top-class attacker requires. He has outstanding gait and awareness, and helium is exceptional successful beforehand of goal. He tin besides play a fig of antithetic positions, which is simply a truly invaluable asset.”

His accomplishment astatine the Etihad Stadium comes during a frustrating play for City.

City, champions for the past 4 seasons, are presently 5th successful the Premier League, 12 points down leaders Liverpool having played a crippled more.

Defeat astatine Paris Saint-Germain connected Wednesday has besides near Pep Guardiola’s broadside successful information of missing retired connected the Champions League knockout stages.

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