Arsenal bolstered its striker options by signing Lucas Perez from Deportivo La Coruna on the next-to-last day of Europe’s transfer window, and England goalkeeper Joe Hart’s departure from Manchester City grew closer yesterday.
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Hart’s agent is reported as saying in the Turin-based sports daily Tuttosport: “Yes, Joe Hart will play at Torino”.
“Torino’s offer came in the right moment, with the right manner”.
Hart saw his starting place at the Etihad Stadium go to Willy Caballero in the opening few weeks of the new campaign, followed by Claudio Bravo’s £17m arrival from Barcelona.
“For that reason, I immediately accepted president Cairo’s offer with great enthusiasm”.
Joe Hart wrote a farewell letter on his Facebook page, and it is simply spectacular.
Both players have found themselves out of favour at their parent clubs, leading them to look for football elsewhere, and Szczesny will be joined by his fellow Premier League stopper in Italy for the current season.
“I have already met Attilio Lombardo, with whom I worked in Manchester winning a lot: I hope for the same emotions this year”.
“I have read an interview about “Toro”: the coach wants humility and ambition. I really like this too, that’s how I want to be”.
Hart joined Manchester City in 2006 but was sent out on loan at lower league sides in England before making a name for himself during the 2010/11 Premier League season.
Bony, whose transfer from Swansea City cost City a whopping £28, was shipped out to fellow Premier League club Stoke City for a single loan season.
Hart was named in Sam Allardyce’s first England squad but was given special permission to fly to Italy to finalise the move ahead of the Three Lions’ first 2018 World Cup qualifier against Slovakia on Sunday.
“The tournament [Euro 2016] didn’t go particularly well for him, and he’s better than that, and I think going to Torino, there will be a lot more pressure on him than he thinks”.
Hart could make his Torino debut on September 11 when the “Granata” face Atalanta in Bergamo.
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Bony, who scored just 10 goals in 46 appearances for City, took part in a training match soon after completing the move.
