FRANCE’S RECORD GOALSCORER Olivier Giroud has reached agreement with Los Angeles FC to join the Major League Soccer club this summer, sources close to the player confirmed on Tuesday.
The 37-year-old, whose contract with Italian club AC Milan expires at the end of the season, has committed to an 18-month deal with the Californian club starting on 1 August, according to reports in France.
LAFC will be the eighth club that 2018 World Cup winner Giroud has played for over two decades.
He started his career at French side Grenoble, playing for Istres and Tours before his breakthrough with Montpellier where he won the Ligue 1 title in 2012.
Giroud then spent nine seasons in England, with Arsenal from 2012 to 2018 followed by three seasons with London rivals Chelsea, where he won the Champions League in 2021.
A move to Italy in 2021 saw him win the Serie A title with Milan the following year.
Giroud is France’s all-time top scorer with 57 goals in 131 games.
At LAFC, he will join his best friend on the national team, former captain Hugo Lloris, who retired from international football after France were beaten by Argentina in the final of the 2022 World Cup.
Goalkeeper Lloris joined LAFC from Tottenham last December.
He’ll probably still play martial out wide, the plonker
Its grand sure he has Romero there he can stick De Gea up front
LVG is clearly a genius, he is doing as much as possible at M.U. so that getting auto qualified for the CL cannot happen, thus he will be fired and then get a huge pay off. Genius.
His contract is null and void if he doesn’t qualify for Champion’s League. Same happened to Moyes. They didn’t have to pay him the rest of his contract.
Who told you this david
Conor, why do you think United waited until it became mathematically impossible to qualify for the CL to sack Moyes?
It just means he gets less than if they sacked him with CL qualification. Moyes still earned like 7m for the rest of his 6 year deal. LVG will still get paid off. Just not a lot.
That’s nonsense, he loses performance bonuses only if he achieves the target of CL qualification.
He is contracted until Summer 2017 and if he is sacked his contract will have to be paid up so there is no chance he will be be resigning unless a deal is mutually agreed.
You are also incorrect about Moyes. It is well documented that Man Utd agreed a payoff of £5.2 million with Moyes in late 2014 several months after he was sacked, certainly not qualifying for the CL affected his contract terms but he still got £5.2m on top of his £7m salary.
Not a bad few months work !
Correction line 1 ‘if he fails to achieve’
To call Wilson back for 6 weeks is a bit draft really . If hes getting regular football leave him there. Besides What happens when Rooney comes back ? The lad sits on the bench for the remainder cause that’s what would happen then .
Why are we shocked anymore about anything this crazy man does….
Dreadful appointment, knee jerk reaction. Old school yesterday’s man. Body language alone illustrates the negative and clueless approach he has brought to the club. Journey man leaving with bags of money.
He is some yobbo!