Actual Madrid on Thursday sealed a take care of Turkish participant Arda Guler from Fenerbahçe for a payment of €18m plus add-ons with the inclusion of a sell-on clause.
Dubbed because the ‘Turkish Messi’, the 18-year-old participant has signed a six-year contract with the Madrid-based membership.
“The 18-year-old Turkish star involves our membership having gained the Cup and been named man of the match within the last,” the membership said in an official announcement.
“Arda Güler is now a Actual Madrid participant. Our membership provides to its squad within the type of one of many hottest younger prospects in world soccer. The 18-year-old has simply been topped a Turkish Cup champion with Fenerbahçe this season, in addition to being voted man of the match within the last.
“The brand new Actual Madrid signing made his first-team debut for Fenerbahçe in August 2021, in a Europa League qualifier which got here earlier than his seventeenth birthday. In that 21-22 marketing campaign, Güler went on to play 16 instances and rating three objectives for his membership.”
Guler emerged as one of many hottest prospects in soccer prior to now few months and had many golf equipment combating to get {the teenager}’s signature.
Arch-rivals Actual Madrid and FC Barcelona additionally had a bidding battle for the Turkish prodigy. Nevertheless, {the teenager} selected Los Blancos as his subsequent vacation spot, regardless of Barcelona negotiating with the participant’s entourage first.
Madrid’s new no. 11, Rodrygo additionally welcomed the teenager within the workforce saying, “One other expertise joins our Madrid household! Welcome @10ardaguler”
{The teenager} bid farewell to his earlier membership and posted on Twitter: “It’s arduous to say goodbye, however I needed to take this resolution to make those that consider in me extra proud, to offer hope to everybody who’s about to surrender and to show that Turkish youth can obtain something they need.”
It have to be famous that the Whites have already signed 4 gamers in the summertime switch window. Fran Garcia, Brahim Diaz, Jude Bellingham and Joselu had been the primary 4 signings performed by Los Blancos.
Garcia was purchased from Rayo Vallecano for €3m, Brahim returned from his three-year mortgage spell at AC Milan whereas Bellingham was purchased for a report payment of €103m from the German membership Borussia Dortmund and Joselu was introduced on mortgage from Espanyol on a one-year deal.