MONACO HAVE COMPLETED the signing of Youri Tielemans from Anderlecht for a transfer fee believed to be in the region of €23million.
The 20-year-old midfielder is regarded as one of the biggest talents around in his age category and had also been linked with clubs such as Manchester United, Everton, Inter and Atletico Madrid in recent months, but Monaco have won the race for his signature.
Anderlecht general director Herman Van Holsbeeck already announced earlier this week that the Belgium international was on his way to the Ligue 1 champions and he has now signed a contract with Monaco until June 2022.
“I am thrilled to be a part of this team next year,” Tielemans commented on his transfer.
Monaco are a club with an ambitious project and have a reputation for developing youngsters.
“I have spoken a lot with Yannick Carrasco about Monaco while we were with the national team.
I am very happy to be here. I am going to do everything within my powers to pay back Monaco for the faith shown in me.”
Tielemans came through the ranks of the Anderlecht youth academy and made his first-team debut at the tender age of 16.
He had since developed into a key figure at the Brussels giants, making over 150 appearances in all competitions for the club.
The Belgium international scored 13 goals in 37 league appearances this term to help Anderlecht to the Belgian title.
Staunton has carried the Mayo ladies since the days of the all Ireland win are there any other players matching her scoring be rate? Suppose being from Mayo and the lack of a cock and balls is enough for people to be ignorant of her talent! And I wouldn’t be the biggest fan of the ladies game but I appreciate a great player when I see one.
Is she better than Rena Buckley and Briedge Corkery? As GAA women over the two sports I rank them higher and as better all rounders.
A woman footballer that no one outside of Mayo ever heard of in the top 10 sports people in the history of our sport – yea makes sense
No one outside of Mayo has heard of her? Anyone that follows Gaa knows full well who Cora Staunton is.
If you keep up to date with sport in general in Ireland you will have heard of her.This dosnt make you look arrogant saying that………it makes you look dumb.You can throw out names like Henry Shefflin,Christy Ring,Sonia O Sullivan and many more for their dominance in their own sports.But Cora is by far the most dominant sports player that I have ever seen.No disrespect at all to our other great sportspeople though,but in fairness she is an impeccable player
So just because I don’t follow women’s GAA – I find it unwatchable tbh, and I haven’t heard of this lady who I’m sure is a brilliant footballer and great ambassador for the game, that makes me dumb ?? Why don’t you walk down the main st of any town in this country and show them a picture of her and ask them who she is – Would you get 2 out of 10 correct answers? Maybe. All I’m saying is that she wouldn’t be in any real argument to be included in a list of the top 10 sports people to come out of this island. Your assertion is dumb – not my initial comment.
I dunno I wouldn’t rate her as even the greatest female footballer, what about briege corkery? amount of All Irelands that woman has puts any gaa allstar to shame.
“She wouldn’t be in any real argument to be included in a list of the top 10 sports people to come out of this island”………now that is dumb! Just because she isn’t famous doesn’t mean that she is excluded.If you forget about who we read about and see in the papers and just think about pure sporting ability then I would say that she fully deserves at least a top 10 place in Irish sport.She made her inter county debut aged 13 or 14!You don’t know anything about her so I don’t know why your even going through the bother of saying that she doesn’t deserve the praise she deserves.
I didn’t say she doesn’t deserve any praise she gets – I’m sure she’s gets plenty. No sports person who excels in a minority sport will get the praise they deserve.Why ? Because not enough people care. It’s not fair but that’s the way it is.
Robert, you have to be a Dub and one of the new breed Dubs, ya know the lads supporting them since 2010 ? Tell me I’m right : )