Dries Mertens has left Napoli after nine years to join Galatasaray. Gala announced: “Our club notified the Public Disclosure Platform that a contract was signed with professional football player Dries Mertens.
“The Belgian made his big leap by transferring to PSV Eindhoven in the 2011-2012 season. Mertens, who started to talk about his goal scorer here, shook the nets 37 times in 62 matches with the PSV jersey. PSV ended his career with a remarkable performance such as 45 goals. And 43 assists in 88 matches and took the road to Boots.
“Continuing to climb the career ladder one by one, the Belgian star transferred to Napoli, where he will spend most of his career in the 2013-14 summer transfer season, with a transfer of 10 million Euros.
“Playing for Napoli in Serie A for nine years, Mertens made his name in history. As the top scorer in the Italian club. Surpassing Napoli legend Diego Armando Maradona with 148 goals and 47 assists in 397 games.
“The star player, who had a chance in the Belgium National Team for the first time in 2010. He shook the nets 20 times in 100 matches. He made a name for himself with the 5 goals he scored in the 2018 World Cup together with the qualifiers.
“We welcome Mertens to Galatasaray and convey our best wishes for success under the yellow-red jersey.”
