Senegalese midfielder Mamadou Loum has joined Reading on loan from national champions Porto. This Friday, he officially became the emblem of the second tier of English football with the option to purchase at the end of the season.
The 25-year-old defensive midfielder made 32 appearances and scored two goals in 2021/22 for Alaves, recently relegated to the Spanish Second League, and is on his second consecutive transfer after joining the Blues three seasons ago. ‘.
National champion and 2019/20 Cup winner Mamadou Loum originally joined Porto on loan from Sporting Braga, whose first team he never represented, in the middle of the 2018/19 season, after he was also in lease from Moreirense.
The Senegalese international, who has made three caps and won the African Cup of Nations this year, started pre-season with the first team but was released before a training camp held in the Algarve, along with Joao Mendes and Romário Baro.
According to press reports, Reading of Portuguese-Angolan striker Lucas João has agreed to an option to buy the midfielder worth five million euros, who has made 23 appearances and scored one goal for the Blues and Whites and has a contract until June 2024.
Mamadou Lum is Porto’s ninth player on the transfer market after defenders Chancel Mbemba, Carrasa, Diogo Leite and Rubén Semedo, midfielders Fabio Vieira, Sergio Oliveira and Vitor Ferreira, and forward Francisco Conceição.
Sergio Conceição’s team will make their official debut in the 2022/23 season with Candido de Oliveira’s 44th Super Cup contest against the recently relegated Tondela, finalist of the last Portuguese Cup, on Saturday at 20:45 in Aveiro.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
