Omar Marmoush transfer to Man City: Eintracht Frankfurt forward completes January move for initial £59m | Football News

Omar Marmoush has completed his move to Manchester City from Eintracht Frankfurt.

Sky Sports News understands City have paid an initial fee of £59m (€70m) plus a further £4.2m (€5m) in bonuses.

The Egypt international joins on a four-and-a-half-year deal after scoring 15 goals in 17 matches for the Bundesliga side this season and becomes City’s third signing of the January window following the additions of Vitor Reis and Abdukodir Khusanov.

Marmoush arrives after only 18 months with Frankfurt, who he joined from Wolfsburg in July 2023 on a free transfer.

“I’m so happy to be here,” he said. “Manchester City is one of the biggest clubs in the world over the past 10 years, so it was not a question.

“It is an honour the club showed an interest in me and now I’m here. The last two seasons have been great, but it is just the beginning for me.”

Marmoush: I’m fast and dangerous

Marmoush can operate across the front three and has been involved in more goals than any other player in the Bundesliga this season, including Harry Kane.

“I’ve played many positions. For the national team I am playing left wing most of the time. At my former club, I was playing No 9, sometimes at 10 and also an eight,” added Marmoush.

“I’ve also played on the right wing, so I think I can play in all the positions, but I feel most comfortable behind the striker in the No 10 position where the way to the goal is quicker – or shorter I should say – so I am comfortable in all positions. But wherever I play, I will always give my all to try and help the team.

“My main strength I would say is that I always want to win – that is from a character point of view.

“On the pitch, I am fast, good on the ball, I try to see where the spaces are and exploit the spaces – and I’m dangerous.”

How Marmoush became elite and why City wanted him

Sky Sports’ Adam Bate:

Omar Marmoush has emerged as Egypt’s other superstar forward. No player in the Bundesliga, not even Harry Kane, has been involved in more goals than the Eintracht Frankfurt man.

At almost 26, it has been a spectacular rise. As recently as 2022, Marmoush was at struggling Stuttgart, loaned there by then-parent club Wolfsburg. His fortunes improved dramatically at Frankfurt, a club that have become experts in playing the market.

Speaking to Frankfurt’s sporting director, Markus Krosche, earlier this season, he was as sanguine as ever about the prospect of the club losing their biggest stars. “Selling players is part of my job. I am not emotional about it. It is business,” he told Sky Sports.

“I try to think of the player. They want titles. They want to play in the Premier League or Champions League. It is a normal process. There will be a point that the player develops faster than the club and then we let him go. Blocking their development is not good.

“This is what I tell all the players. If your development is faster than our development as a club and I get the money I expect, I will let you go. This is why so many young talents like to come to Frankfurt because we know what we have to do to develop them.”

But even by Frankfurt’s high standards, the example of Marmoush is extreme. Signed on a free transfer from Wolfsburg in the summer of 2023, he has been transformed into one of the best players in the Bundesliga, an all-round forward to rival the best in Europe.

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