Looking for a new base after a complicated experience with the Girondins de Bordeaux, Hatem Ben Arfa signed up with Lille on Wednesday.
Hatem Ben Arfa is back on the Ligue 1 pitches. While he was free of any contract since leaving the Girondins de Bordeaux, after a lackluster season during the 2020-21 financial year (25 matches played, 2 goals), the 34-year-old French international was looking for a new base. After numerous summer contacts (in Greece, Turkey, at LOSC and with an Italian club in particular) and an approach to Espérance de Tunis in September, it is therefore in Lille that HBA is committed.
Looking for an attacking reinforcement this winter to compensate for the departure of Yusuf Yazici, who has lacked playing time since the start of the season and is on loan to CSKA Moscow, who has definitively agreed with Lille for the transfer, with option of purchase, of the Turkish international, the LOSC had quickly targeted the name of the former Lyonnais.
Hatem Ben Arfa in Lille until the end of the season
Discussions had thus been established between Lille and the player trained at Olympique Lyonnais last week, as we revealed to you and the club from the North formalized the transfer on Wednesday. “LOSC announces the arrival at the Club of Hatem Ben Arfa (34 years old). The French international midfielder (15 caps, 2 goals) signed a 6-month contract today which binds him to the Lille club until the end of the 2021-2022 season., specifies the press release of the Mastiffs. He will wear number 11.
Trained at Olympique Lyonnais in 2004, Hatem Ben Arfa then joined Olympique de Marseille before leaving for England. Relaunched in Nice and then passed by Paris Saint-Germain and Stade Rennais, he had joined the Girondins de Bordeaux before, therefore, committing to his seventh Ligue 1 club. The tenth in total, since the start of his career.
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