Bournemouth Complete £12.8m Romain Faivre Signing From Lyon, Set To Loan Him To FC Lorient For 2023/2024 Season
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Bournemouth have completed the signing of Lyon midfielder, Romain Faivre for a reported fee of £12.8m but the English Premier League side will loan the 24 year old to Lorient for the 2023/2024 campaign.
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Bournemouth have completed the signing of Lyon midfielder Romain Faivre for around £12.8million but the Cherries will immediately loan him out to Ligue 1 side Lorient, where he spent the second half of last season on loan with the 24-year-old set to link up with his Bournemouth team-mates in the summer of 2024, as per Sky Sports’ reported of his transfer.
The move is all down to the deal which was struck in January, Bournemouth chairman Bill Foley acquired minority ownership of Lorient a 33% stake which sparked protestations from fans of the French outfit.
The American had only completed a £150m takeover of the Cherries in December and is pursuing a multi-club ownership model, which has been popularised in recent years by the City Football Group.
Bournemouth were impressed with Faivre’s form at Lorient, where he scored five goals in 17 games. He splits his time between the right flank and central attacking midfield.
After playing for Tours B and Monaco B, Faivre made his Monaco debut in 2018, incidentally in a 1-0 win over Lorient which earned him a move to Brest in 2020 where he scored 14 goals in 59 games before earning a move to Lyon in 2022.
Meanwhile…
Having left Leipzig at the end of his loan deal last month to return to Paris Saint-Germain, Abdou Diallo faces an uncertain future in the French capital after the Bundesliga side opted against making the Senegalese international defender’s move permanent following a middling season.
His playing time was limited to just 15 games on his return to Germany due to a knee injury and the highlight of his year will have been a World Cup campaign with Senegal.
The 27-year-old, who joined the Ligue 1 champions back in 2019 from Borussia Dortmund, remains under contract until the end of next season.
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In an interview with Le Parisien, the centre-back has recognised that his time with PSG may be coming to an end and also the prospect of finding himself on an “undesirables” shortlist, similar to the one that was drafted up last summer, Diallo is confident that a solution can be found with PSG:
“I’m going to have discussions with the club, and we’ll see what happens. As a football player, you know [being transfer listed] can happen. I’m not here to say whether that’s good or bad. I wasn’t part of that shortlist last year as there was no need for it. I could have stayed at PSG, but I wanted to stay for better, and not for worse. That’s still how I’m seeing things right now, and that’s how it should be. Out of respect and love for the club.”
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