- The 38-year-old will join his former France team-mate Hugo Lloris in Los Angeles.
- The World Cup winner has 13 goals and 8 assists for Milan so far this season
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LAFC appeared to secure the signing of AC Milan star and French international Olivier Giroud on a free transfer as reports of a deal between the player and the club emerged.
According to transfer guru Fabrizio Romano, Giroud signed a contract on Tuesday to join the Black and Gold this summer, just one month after verbally agreeing to join the MLS side in March. His new contract runs until December 2025.
Giroud will join his close friend and long-time France teammate Hugo Lloris in Los Angeles next season.
“Giroud can be considered a new player of LAFC,” Romano said on for the Serie A title this year.
Earlier this spring, Giroud was linked with a move to the United States, Saudi Arabia and even a stint in Europe, but it appears he has now made his decision. He will earn $3.2 million per year as a Los Angeles FC player, according to ESPN.
Olivier Giroud set to earn up to $3.2 million a year until December 2025, reports say
The former Arsenal and Chelsea striker has 13 goals and eight assists in 30 Serie A games for Milan so far this season and remains part of Didier Deschamps’ France squad.
Giroud holds the record for the most goals for the French team (57 in 131 caps).
He will move to Los Angeles after playing Euro 2024 in Germany, where France are considered the big favorites for the title.
LAFC signed 39-year-old forward Kei Kamara last week to add to their scoring woes this season, after parting ways with Carlos Vela in 2023.
The 38-year-old, who scored 276 goals in almost 700 club appearances during his career, will join former teammate and France goalkeeper Hugo Llloris in Los Angeles. Both seen at the 2022 World Cup
Nine games into the 2024 season, the Black and Gold sit in seventh place in the Western Conference with a 3-3-3 record. Giroud will bolster an attack featuring MLS Golden Boot winner Denis Bouanga.
MLS will be Giroud’s sixth different championship in his career after starting in National (third division), Ligue 2 and Ligue 1 in Franche with Grenoble, Istres, Tours and Montpellier, where he won the French championship title. in 2012.
He then moved to England to play in the Premier League, first with Arsenal, where he won three FA Cups, then with Chelsea, where he won the Champions League, the Europa League and the FA Cup. He joined AC Milan in 2021, winning the Serie A title in his first season.
Giroud, who scored 276 times in almost 700 club appearances, was also part of France’s World Cup-winning team in 2018, playing in all seven matches. He also played for France in two other World Cups and three European Championships.
