Portuguese striker Gonçalo Ramos has officially signed up with Paris Saint-Germain, as the club announced on its social media this Monday, August 7, on social media. The Benfica player arrives in France via a paid one-year loan of 20 million euros.
Portuguese striker Gonçalo Ramos has signed up with PSG on a loan until the end of next season with an option to buy, the capital club announced in a statement on Monday. Gonçalo Ramos (22), who played at Benfica Lisbon, his training club, becomes the 8th summer recruit from Paris, after defenders Milan Skriniar and Lucas Hernandez, midfielders Manuel Ugarte and Cher Ndour, attackers Marco Asensio and Lee Kang- in and goalkeeper Arnau Tenas. Great hope of Portuguese football, the center-forward (7 caps, 4 goals) had particularly shone during the last World Cup in 2022, distinguishing himself with a hat-trick in the round of 16 against Switzerland (6-1) where he had been preferred to superstar Cristiano Ronaldo in the starting XI.
27 goals last season
He was already on the shelves of PSG last season before achieving the best exercise of his career with 27 goals scored and 12 assists with Benfica, in all competitions, and a Portuguese league title. “I played for Paris Saint-Germain for five years. I scored 109 goals. Now it’s up to you to write the history of Paris Saint-Germain. Welcome to our club,” he said. welcome, earlier in the evening, his compatriot and former PSG player Pedro Pauleta, in a video broadcast on the social networks of the Parisian club shortly before the formalization of his arrival.
With the arrival of Ramos, PSG gets their hands on the much sought-after N.9 after the failure of the Harry Kane file, very close to signing up with Bayern Munich. This transfer was once again facilitated by the closeness between the PSG “football adviser”, Luis Campos, and the player’s representative, the Portuguese super-agent Jorge Mendes, who has placed many of his foals in Paris for a year thanks to to his ties with his compatriot.