{"id":10280,"date":"2025-02-06T08:18:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T08:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/mario-lemina-galatasaray-sign-gabon-midfielder-from-wolves-for-2m\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T08:18:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T08:18:05","slug":"mario-lemina-galatasaray-sign-gabon-midfielder-from-wolves-for-2m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/mario-lemina-galatasaray-sign-gabon-midfielder-from-wolves-for-2m\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Lemina: Galatasaray sign Gabon midfielder from Wolves for \u00a32m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Galatasaray have signed Wolves midfielder Mario Lemina in a \u00a32m (2.5m euros) deal.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 31-year-old has signed a one-and-a-half year contract worth \u00a348,000-a week with the Turkish club, with the option of a further year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lemina made 28 appearances for Galatasaray during a loan spell in the 2019-20 season, when he was at Southampton, and told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galatasaray.org\/haber\/futbol\/mario-lemina-geri-dondugum-icin-cok-mutluyum\/57162\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">the club&#8217;s website<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a>: &#8220;Everyone knows I love this club. I&#8217;m very happy to be back at this great club<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I will give everything for the team and the fans. I hope we can achieve all the success we can together in this great club.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lemina <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/64259469\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">joined Wolves from Nice in January 2023<\/a> but has not played for the club since 6 January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It followed a fallout with manager Vitor Pereira, who said Lemina would not play until the transfer window had shut, with the Gabon international having initially refused to make himself available for selection <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c0lzz7z47dlo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">before making a U-turn.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He lost the Wolves captaincy to Nelson Semedo in December after clashing with West Ham&#8217;s Jarrod Bowen following a 2-1 defeat at the London Stadium, before Pereira replaced Gary O&#8217;Neil as head coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wolves are 17th in the Premier League, just two points above the relegation zone after winning five games this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Galatasaray are top of the Turkish Super Lig and through to the knockout play-off phase of the Europa League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lemina started his senior career with Lorient and also played for French club Marseille before joining Juventus in 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Southampton paid a club-record \u00a318.1m for Lemina in 2017 and he featured 52 times for them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After loan stints at Galatasaray and then Fulham, the midfielder made a permanent move from Southampton to join Nice in 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cge7822j1qlo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galatasaray have signed Wolves midfielder Mario Lemina in a \u00a32m (2.5m euros) deal. The 31-year-old has signed a one-and-a-half year contract worth \u00a348,000-a week with the Turkish club, with the option of a further year. Lemina made 28 appearances for Galatasaray during a loan spell in the 2019-20 season, when he was at Southampton, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10282,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10280\/revisions\/10282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}