French striker Gomis signs three-year deal with Galatasaray

Paris June 30 (IANS) After spending a spotlight season on loan in Ligue 1 football side Marseille French forward Bafetimbi Gomis signed a three-year deal with Turkish outfit Galatasaray.

The 31-year-old Gomis has fared below par since joining English Premier League side Swansea City in 2014 following a five-year stint in Lyon where he scored a career-best 20 league goals in the 2016-17 season reports Xinhua news agency.

Swansea City could receive a transfer fee of 2.5 million euros ($2.85 million). According to the Galatasaray club on Thursday Gomis annual salary reached 3.35 million euros ($3.8 million) excluding bonuses from the team s success in the league and European competitions.

I m ready to help Galatasaray win titles said Gomis during the signing.

According to French sports daily L Equipe although Marseille showed great interest in making Gomis deal permanent they could not match the salary offered by the Turkish side.

Galatasaray were expected to have a spending spree on the off-season market after finishing fourth in the league last season.

Gomis will undoubtedly be a huge boost for their attacking line as their German forward Lukas Podolski has made a move to Japan s league and Dutch midfielder Wesley Sneijder seems to have an uncertain future.

They will also recruit the Moroccan midfielder Younes Belhanda from Dynamo Kyiv.

--IANS
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