Now that it is official, it may be the right time to find out the story of Daniel Amartey.
Leciester City manager Claudio Ranieri has made the Ghana midfielder his second January signing, getting the budding talent for around £5 million according to Joy Sports information.
The Leicester boss beat a host of rival clubs to the signing of Birmingham winger Demarai Gray earlier this month and he has now moved to further strengthen his shock title challengers.
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The Foxes are level on points with Arsenal at the top of the Premier League and have announced Amartey’s deal on Friday following agreement with his former club, FC Copenhagen.
A versatile 21 year old, Amartey is able to play in defence as well as midfield. He has won six international caps and has played 63 times for his club since joining them in 2014.
He becomes Ghana’s sixth player in the Barclays Premier League.
LOOKING BACK
In the following featurette, Joy Sports mixes a highlights reel of the highly-rated defender’s best goals with a narration of how he broke into his youth team at Inter Allies in Accra.
His former manager at Accra-based Inter Allies FC, Delali Senaye, knows the player well, having scouted and managed his talent in 2009. Delali provides insight into the utility of the player, as well as character assessment and BPL-survival projection.
He was speaking to Joy News’ Gary Al-Smith in this Skype video interview. The feature was first shown on the JoyNews channel.
Source-myjoyonline.com
