Young French midfielder Matteo Guendouzi has joined us from Lorient for an undisclosed fee. The 19-year-old started his career at the Paris Saint-Germain academy before joining Lorient’s academy in 2014. Matteo made his first-team debut for Lorient aged 17 in October 2016 and went on to make 30 appearances. He is a France youth international, having represented them at under-18, under-19 and under-20 level. Head coach Unai Emery said: “We are delighted Matteo is joining us. He is a talented young player and a lot of clubs were interested in him. He has big potential and gained good first-team experience last season with Lorient. He wants to learn and improve and will be an important part of our first-team squad." A young talented defensive midfielder Guendouzi is exactly the kind of player we need to be signing. Hopefully Minislat will continue to unearth the 'next big things' like he did during his time at Dortmund.
Realistically this is the kind of thing we need to be doing, buying young up and coming talented players to keep up with the rest of the more, money heavy pack. Excited to see what this guy to do.
