Official: Joselu has signed for Qatari side Al-Gharafa

Joselu Mato left Real Madrid and he is a new playerl Qatari Al-Gharafa SC, with whom he signed in the middle of the German Euro Cup with the Spanish team, as reported this Friday by the merengue club. The international forward is signed through 2026, with another year optional. Unofficially, it was revealed that the Galician will have the annual record in Qatar already maybe around 8 million of euros, triple the emoluments he received from the white entity.

On Thursday, Real Madrid exercised the purchase option it had 1.5 million euros for Joselu in Spain and on Friday made his departure for Qatar official. The club he leads Florentino Pérez would have sold him to Al-Gharafa for an amount that will also reach around one and a half million, an amount that the Madrid club has not confirmed.

The Galician striker decided not to continue with the Madrid team due to the arrival of the Frenchman Kylian Mbappé and the Brazilian Endrick as reinforcements ahead for next season.

Next the full official statement from Real Madrid:

Real Madrid CF, after making effective its option to acquire the player’s rights Joselu Mato against RCD Espanyol, has reached an agreement with Al-Gharafa SC for the transfer of our player.

Joselu arrived at the quarry of Real Madrid in 2010 at the age of 20 and joined Castilla, where he played 2 seasons and participated in promotion to the Second Division in the 2011-2012 season.

In this season of 2023-2024, where Joselu became a part of Real Madrid, played 49 games, He scored 18 goals and won three titles: 1 Champions League, 1 League and 1 Spanish Super Cup.

With his two goals in the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals against Bayern Munich, Joselu has been a very important player for reach the final at Wembley and able to win the Fifteenth European Cup.

The real Madrid thank you Joselu for your professionalism and his fandom in Real Madrid, and shows all his love to him and his family, to whom he wishes the best of luck in the new phase of their lives.

Joselu, for his part, also sent a farewell letter, a message in which he thanks Real Madrid and the fans of merengue. The Galician text reads as follows:

Thank you:

This is the best and most appropriate word to express everything I feel at this moment, where emotions and nerves hardly allow me to write.

Thank you Real Madrid for everything you have made me feel throughout my life. Out and in. In and out.

Thank you for what you taught me when I was young; Thank you for giving me so many examples of greatness and humility at the same time.

Thank you for keeping my dream alive and making it come true.

Thank you Presi, you are very good.

Thank you very much José Ángel.

Thanks to each and every one of the employees of the biggest and most exemplary club.

Thank you coach for your way of understanding this game.

Thank you Team for being my family.

Thanks to the fans for so much passion, so much love and cooperation that made us fly.

I left years ago but I never left. I’m leaving today too but actually I’m staying.

Thank you

JOSELU