Super Eagles winger Moses Simon has joined Levante UD for 4.5 million pounds after he passed a routine medical with the La Liga club on Monday.
Levante were locked with French Ligue 1 Saint Etienne in the chase for the KAA Gent winger, who missed the recent World Cup in Russia no thanks to a thigh injury.
He was also linked with clubs in England and Germany.
Gent have already signed a direct replacement for the fast wide man, who has made it very clear that he wishes to move on.
He won the Belgian league with Gent in his first season after his transfer from Slovak club AS Trencin.
Simon moved to Levante UD for about five million Euros, which is a figure far from the 20 million Euros a top official had predicted KAA Gent will eventually sell him.
Gent sports director Michel Louwagie proudly predicted that his club with break transfer records when they eventually sell the Nigeria winger after they bought him from Slovak club AS Trencin for 650,000 Euros in January 2015.
“The transfer record in Belgium will have to be shattered when we sell Moses. We will be talking of about 20 million Euros,” Louwagie predicted.
The prediction was prompted by the fact that Moses was an instant sensation in Belgium.
But the player will go on to suffer injuries and lack of consistency for such huge hope not to be fulfilled in the three and a half seasons he was there.
Altogether, he scored 21 goals and provided 18 assists in 136 appearances for ‘The Buffaloes’.
‘Daddy’ has now been handed a five-year deal by Levante to finally live up to his potentials in Spain.
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