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

Yann Karamoh arrived early this afternoon at Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport to undergo the usual medical exams and sign a contract that, indications suggest, 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 the end of his contract with Torino, since 2022, so he can be registered by the board led by André Villas-Boas with Liga Portugal, even with the summer transfer market officially closed for more than two weeks.

Several European teams were watching the player born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast (international for the young ranks of France), but the blue and white structure acted quickly and secured him, thus offering a "late gift" to Italian coach Francesco Farioli.

Given that everything is aligned between the parties, barring a last-minute turnaround, Yann Karamoh should soon be introduced as the 13th summer reinforcement of the dragons, 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 close to 100 million euros.

Trained at RCF Paris, Karamoh continued his training at Caen, where he made his debut at the highest level in the 2016/17 season, ending that season with five goals and three assists.

These numbers attracted the interest of Internazionale, who, at the end of that season, paid about 6.5 million euros for his acquisition. The promise, however, did not succeed in Milan and ended up being loaned successively to Bordeaux and Parma.

The bond with the nerazzurri was definitively terminated in the summer of 2020, when Parma hired him for about eight million euros. There he also did not succeed and, after a loan to Karagümrük – where he was directed by Francesco Farioli -, he transferred to Torino for about one million euros.

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

With 1.84 meters and 76 kilograms, Karamoh stands out for his versatility: he can act on both wings of the attack or as a more mobile reference in the center, thus being able to compete for a place in the forward sector with players like Samu Aghehowa and Luuk de Jong.

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