Famara Diedhiou: Bristol City sign Senegal striker in club-record £5.3m deal
Famara Diedhiou (left) has scored once in six senior international games for Senegal |
Bristol City have broken their
transfer record to sign Senegal international striker Famara Diedhiou
for £5.3m from French top flight club Angers.
The 24-year-old has agreed a four-year deal at Ashton Gate.
The Robins' previous transfer record of £3.25m was also paid to Angers for striker Jonathan Kodjia in 2015.
"I think he's going to be a huge player for us," head coach Lee Johnson told Bristol City's website. "He's powerful, he's quick. Now is his time to shine."
Chief
executive officer Mark Ashton added: "It's big business. He's someone
we'd identified a while ago as having real potential to fill the front
man's shoes."
Diedhiou's 22 goals in 37 games in 2015-16 for
French second-tier side Clermont led to a £1.36m move to Angers, for
whom he scored nine times in 36 appearances last season.
Kodjia
scored 20 goals in 52 games for City before moving to Aston Villa in
August 2016 for an initial £11m which may rise to £15m.
Chelsea
loanee Tammy Abraham, 19, was Bristol City's top scorer in 2016-17 with
26 goals in all competitions, but he is expected to move to Premier
League club Swansea City on loan for 2017-18.
'A lot of English teams have been following him'
French journalist Pierre-Yves Croix, of the Courrier de l'Ouest, speaking to BBC Radio Bristol
He
is a powerful striker. He can play down the middle. He is tall and good
with his back to goal. He's complete. He's got a good header.
Jonathan Kodjia was quicker, and was more able to play on the wing, but I still think Diedhiou is a good player.
A
lot of English teams have been following him. We knew people from
different English teams were in Angers' stadium during the past few
months.
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