Champions League hero Joselu has left Actual Madrid for Qatari facet Al Gharafa.
Madrid triggered their choice to purchase the Spain worldwide, who’s with the squad at Euro 2024, from Espanyol yesterday after which instantly bought him for a price reported to be €1.5million.
The 34-year-old scored 18 objectives in all competitions final season regardless of being utilised in a back-up function by coach Carlo Ancelotti.
His best second got here in opposition to Bayern Munich within the semi-finals of the Champions League. With Madrid trailing 3-2 on mixture within the 88th-minute of the return recreation on the Bernabeu, Joselu scored twice in dramatic trend to ship his group to Wembley, the place they beat Borussia Dortmund within the last.
🛫 From Madrid to Al Gharafa 💛
Formally… @JoseluMato9 , the Spanish worldwide, joins Cheetahs 🐆 pic.twitter.com/acmd97t9g5
— AL GHARAFA SC | نادي الغرافة (@ALGHARAFACLUB) June 28, 2024
In a parting assertion, Joselu wrote on the membership web site: “Thanks.
“It’s the finest phrase and essentially the most appropriate to specific every thing I really feel at this second, during which emotion and nerves barely permit me to write down.
“Thanks Actual Madrid for every thing you could have made me really feel all through my life. Inside and outside. Inside and out of doors.
“Thanks for what you taught me as a child; thanks for giving me so many examples of greatness and humility on the similar time.
“Thanks for protecting my dream alive and for making it come true.”
