French
World Cup star Thomas Lemar looks set to quit Monaco and join Atletico Madrid,
the two clubs revealed on Tuesday.
“Atletico
de Madrid and AS Monaco have achieved a preliminary agreement over the transfer
of Thomas Lemar to our club,” for the definitive transfer,” the Spanish club said
of the 22-year old.
“Over
the next days, both clubs will work to close the agreement,” the Madrid club
said of the attacking midfielder usually deployed on the left.
The
slightly built Lemar looked set to join Arsenal a year ago but Monaco pulled
out of the potential £92-million (100 million euros) deal after selling a
string of other stars.
Lemar
was also tipped to join Liverpool as they seek to replace Philippe Coutinho.
“In
the last season, Lemar has continued to show his quality,” Atletico said on
their website. In fact he played 38 games for Monaco, showing his best form at
the latter end of the season.
Didier
Deshamps left many top stars out of his World Cup squad but kept faith with
Lemar, who scored recently for France in a win over Colombia and bagged a brace
last year against the Dutch.
Having
made a run to the Champions League semis and won the French title in 2017,
Monaco sold Benjamin Mendy and Bernardo Silva to Manchester City, Tiemoue
Bakayoko to Chelsea, and let teenage sensation Kylian Mbappe leave for Paris
Saint Germain.
Monaco’s
Brazilian midfielder Fabinho will join Liverpool following the World Cup finals
in Russia as Monaco cash in again.
AFP
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