The Spanish striker Fran Navarro will represent Olympiacos, coached by the Portuguese Carlos Carvalhal, on loan from FC Porto, with an option to buy at the end of the season, the Greek Football League club announced today.
The amounts involved in the agreement were not specified by the title record holder and current third place in the competition, who began to be guided by the Portuguese coach on December 5 and who has midfielder João Carvalho and forward Daniel in his squad. Podence.
Fran Navarro leaves behind an irregular adaptation at FC Porto, where he scored a goal in 10 games in the first half of 2023/24, having played 279 minutes.
Hired from Gil Vicente in July, for a sum close to seven million euros (ME), the Barcelos club’s all-time top scorer in the top category had signed a five-season contract with the ‘blue and white’, until June 2028.
Fran Navarro shared with João Mário, from national champion Benfica, the third and final place on the podium of the competition’s top scorers in 2022/23, with 17 goals, to improve the record of 16 scored in the first season in Portugal, for a total of 66 games.
Born on the outskirts of Valencia, the 25-year-old forward graduated with the ‘che’ team (2015-2021), but never played in the first team and was on loan at Belgian side Lokeren (2019/20), before signing for one. of the biggest sales in the history of Gil Vicente.
FC Porto made its second exit in the reopening of the transfer market, after the transfer of winger Gabriel Verón to Cruzeiro, from the Brazilian championship.
Source: TSF
