Yann Karamoh arrives in Porto to bolster FC Porto’s squad | OneFootball

Yann Karamoh arrived at Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport early Wednesday afternoon to undergo the usual medical exams and sign a contract that, by all indications, will keep him tied to FC Porto at least until the end of the 2025/26 season.

The 27-year-old forward has been without a club since his contract with Torino ended in 2022, which means he can be registered by the board led by André Villas-Boas with Liga Portugal, even though the summer transfer window officially closed over two weeks ago.

Several European teams were monitoring the player, who was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast (an international at youth levels for France), but the blue and white management acted quickly and secured him, thus offering an “out-of-hours gift” to Italian coach Francesco Farioli.

Given that everything is aligned between the parties, barring any last-minute surprises, Yann Karamoh should soon be presented as the Dragons’ 13th summer signing, following Victor Froholdt, Gabri Veiga, Alberto Costa, Nehuén Pérez, Borja Sainz, Jan Bednarek, Dominik Prpic, Pablo Rosario, Jakub Kiwior, Luuk de Jong, João Costa, and Pedro Lima, in a window where the club invested nearly 100 million euros.

Trained at RCF Paris, Karamoh continued his development at Caen, where he made his top-level debut in the 2016/17 season, finishing that campaign with five goals and three assists.

Those numbers attracted the interest of Internazionale, which, at the end of that season, paid around 6.5 million euros for his signing. However, the promise did not materialize in Milan, and he ended up being successively loaned to Bordeaux and Parma.

His contract with the Nerazzurri was definitively terminated in the summer of 2020, when Parma signed him for around eight million euros. He was also unsuccessful there and, after a loan to Karagümrük—where he was coached by Francesco Farioli—he moved to Torino for about one million euros.

In Turin, he scored five goals in 23 games in his first season, did not score in 11 matches in the second, and in January was loaned to Montpellier. In 2024, he returned to square one, recorded one assist in 31 games, and saw his contract end, so he is currently a free agent.

Standing at 1.84 meters and weighing 76 kilograms, Karamoh stands out for his versatility: he can play on both wings of the attack or as a more mobile central forward, and can thus compete for a spot in the attacking sector with players like Samu Aghehowa and Luuk de Jong.

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