Omar Marmoush transfer to Man City: Eintracht Frankfurt striker completes transfer in January for initial £59m | Football news
Omar Marmoush has completed his move to Manchester City from Eintracht Frankfurt.
Sky Sports News City are understood to have paid an initial fee of £59m (€70m) plus a further £4.2m (€5m) in bonuses.
The Egypt international joined on a four-and-a-half-year deal after scoring 15 goals in 17 games for the Bundesliga side this season and became City’s third signing of the January transfer window Vitor Reis and Abdukodir Husanov.
Marmoush arrives after just 18 months at Frankfurt, which he joined from Wolfsburg in July 2023 on a free transfer.
“I’m so happy to be here,” he said. “Manchester City has been one of the biggest clubs in the world for the last 10 years, so it wasn’t a question.
“It’s an honor that the club showed interest in me and now I’m here. The past two seasons have been great, but this is just the beginning for me.”
Marmoush: I am fast and dangerous
Marmoush can operate through the front three and has scored more goals than any other player in the Bundesliga this season, including Harry Kane.
“I have played in many positions. In the national team I play left wing most of the time. In my former club I played number 9, sometimes in position 10 and also number eight,” added Marmoush.
“I also played on the right wing, so I think I can play in all positions, but I feel most comfortable behind the striker in the number 10 position where the path to the goal is faster – or shorter, I would say – so I am comfortable in all positions, but wherever I play, I will always do my best to try to help the team.
“I would say my main strength is that I always want to win – that’s from a character point of view.
“On the field, I’m fast, good with the ball, I try to see where the spaces are and use them – and I’m dangerous.”
How Marmoush became elite and why City wanted him
Sky Sports’ Adam Bate:
Omar Marmoush emerged as Egypt’s second superstar striker. No player in the Bundesliga, not even Harry Kane, has scored more goals than the Eintracht Frankfurt player.
At almost 26 years old, it’s a spectacular rise. Until 2022, Marmoush was in the failing Stuttgart, where he was loaned by the then parent club Wolfsburg. His fortunes have improved dramatically at Frankfurt, a club that has become a specialist in the market game.
Speaking to Frankfurt sporting director Markus Krosche earlier this season, he was as optimistic as ever about the possibility of the club losing its biggest stars. “Selling players is part of my job. I’m not emotional about it. It’s a job,” he said Sky Sports.
“I try to think of the player. They want titles. They want to play in the Premier League or the Champions League. It’s a normal process. There will be a moment when a player develops faster than the club and then we let him go. Blocking their development is not good.
“That’s what I tell all the players. If your development is faster than our development as a club and I get the money I expect, I’ll let you go. That’s why so many young talents like to come to Frankfurt because we know what we have to do to get them let’s develop.”
But even by Frankfurt’s high standards, Marmoush’s example is extreme. He moved on a free transfer from Wolfsburg in the summer of 2023, transformed into one of the best players in the Bundesliga, a versatile striker who can match the best in Europe.
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