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Definitely very active, Olympique Lyonnais completed its transfer window with the arrival of Belgian midfielder Orel Mangala, for what should be a record amount.
Olympique Lyonnais has broken the bank again. Finally freed from the constraints of the DNCG, John Textor’s club completed its incredible winter transfer window with the signing of Belgian international midfielder from Nottingham, Orel Mangala.
The transfer amount is communicated by OL: “This paying loan of £10M (approximately €11.7M) is accompanied by a purchase option of £15M (approximately €17.5M) to which a maximum of £3M of bonus (around €3.5M) as well as 10% profit-sharing on the added value of a possible future transfer”indicates the Rhone club in a press release.
Seven recruits for OL
Since it is difficult to see OL not exercising the purchase option after having paid such a sum for a loan of less than six months, we are therefore heading towards a record transfer for the Rhone club. The 25 million euros spent on Jeff Reine-Adelaïde in 2018 should therefore be exceeded.
The arrival of Mangala should bring the number of OL winter recruits to seven, with Lucas Perri, Adryelson, Malick Fofana, Gift Orban and Nemanja Matic, and counting Saïd Benrahma, whose formalization should not take long.
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