Sunderland sign £13m Asamoah Gyan
Sunderland’s manager Steve Bruce has gone ahead and smashed the club's transfer record by spending thirteen million pounds on Ghana's World Cup star, Asamoah Gyan.
The manager and the team managed to get their hands on the twenty four year old star with just twenty minutes left in the summer transfer window and completed the player’s move to the Premier League from French Ligue 1 side, Rennes.
This transfer fee, which is in excess of thirteen million, is significantly higher than the ten million pounds the team paid for Tottenham’s Darren Bent last summer.
Steve Bruce and Sunderland will however be hoping to get the same amount of success out of Gyan as they did out of Bent in the coming years at the Stadium of Light.
Steve Bruce was reported to have said after the deal went through: "As anyone who has watched Ghana recently or who watched the World Cup will tell you, Asamoah is a real livewire.
"He had a fantastic tournament in the summer and a lot of European clubs sat up and took notice.
"I have been very keen to bring in another striker to add to the quality we have, but only when we felt the deal was right.
"We feel this is a great deal for the football club and Asamoah really wants to be here and in the Barclays Premier League, so I'm delighted he has joined us."
Gyan is a player who the manager was interested in signing all summer long. He was interested in signing the player well before he scored those three crucial goals for Ghana that saw them progress to the later stages of the World Cup.
The news will be a major boost for the manager and the team, who might have finally found a replacement for Kenwyne Jones who was allowed to leave the team and join Stoke in a deal which was rumored to be around eight million pounds.
The owners of the club had told Bruce initially that they would not give him money to spend unless the manager could guarantee results. After Fraizer Campbell's injury that the player picked up in the one nil win over Manchester City, the officials had no choice, but to go with Bruce on this deal.
The Accra-born Gyan is an international team mate of Sunderland’s other summer signing, John Mensah, who was brought into the team on a season long loan earlier this month.
The striker has already scored over twenty two goals in forty four appearances for his national team, that is a record that shows just how lethal the player can be.
The forward began his footballing career in Africa with the Liberty Professionals before joining Udinese in Italy, from where he was loaned to Modena for a short spell.
Gyan also holds the record for scoring the fastest goal in the World Cup finals of 2006, when the player netted a goal in sixty eight seconds against the Czech Republic.
The player could make his debut for the Black Cats as early as September 11th when the team makes a trip down to play Wigan Athletic in the Premier League.
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