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Official | Marseille sign Luis Suárez from Granada
Marseille have announced that an agreement has been reached with La Liga side Granada over the signing of Colombian forward Luis Suárez, who will travel to France today in order to undergo his medical. The exact details of the transfer or the contract on the table have yet to filter through. The Athletic, via L’Équipe, have indicated that the 24-year-old had previously been an OM target at the end of the 2019/20 season, in which he scored 19 goals in the Spanish second tier for Zaragoza. This year, he was unable to prevent the Andalusians from being relegated from the first tier but nevertheless scored eight times and registered four assists in his 37 appearances. He has also been a Colombian international since 2020, and made four appearances but is yet to score for his country. He came up through the ranks at Leones before a move to Watford, for whom he never played. In any case, Suárez becomes the latest signing in a transfer window which is speeding up for Marseille, and the first non-defensive signing after the arrivals of Isaak Touré and Chancel Mbemba.
Granada CF sell Colombian striker Luis Suarez to French club Olympique de Marseille
Image of Granada CF's Nuevo Estadio de Los Carmenes. Credit: Google maps - Roberto Gomis Garcia Luis Suarez, Granada CF’s Colombian striker has been sold to Ligue 1 side Olympique de Marseille in France. Granada CF reached an agreement on Monday, July 18, for the transfer of Colombian international striker Luis Suarez to the French Ligue 1 team, Olympique de Marseille. The fee is believed to be around €10 million, according to sources of granadadigital.es. Negotiations for the move were probably smoothed due to the fact that Granadinista sporting director, Nicolas Rodriguez, and Pablo Longoria, of Olympique, are both Asturians. The announcement of Suarez’s sale came shortly after the rojiblanco had made the signing of goalkeeper Raul Fernandez official. After dropping out of LaLiga, the striker, who was one of the players who expressed his desire to leave and continue playing at the top level. Suarez will reportedly travel in the next few hours to undergo the relevant medical checks with the French side. He would then sign his contract, the duration of which has not yet been revealed. Suarez was one of the players brought in by Diego Martinez in the summer of 2020 to help Granada CF after qualifying for Europe. He arrived from the English Premier League club, Watford. It was a welcome return for the Colombian to Granada, where he had already played in the reserve team and the youth team. The striker joined after playing on loan at Zaragoza, where he had scored 19 goals in 39 games. In his first season in the red and white jersey, Suarez scored seven goals in 37 games, two of them in the Europa League. This coming season, Luis Suarez can look forward to playing in the Champions League with Marseille, who finished second behind PSG last season in Ligue 1.
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