Hatem Ben Arfa signs with Lille for six months

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The attacking midfielder had been free since the end of his contract with Girondins de Bordeaux in July 2021.

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“A new Mastiff in town.” It is with these five words and a video on social networks that Lille announced, Wednesday, January 19, the signing for six months of Hatem Ben Arfa. Free of any contract since leaving Bordeaux last summer, the 34-year-old attacking midfielder will evolve with the Northerners until the end of the season.

“I am very happy to join Losc today, he said in the statement announcing his arrival. It’s a team that has shown a lot of great things this season, and obviously last year with a title of champion of France. I am happy to sign in this club which continues to rise. I feel very good and I can’t wait to get back to competition..”

Since leaving PSG in the summer of 2018, Hatem Ben Arfa has multiplied short experiences. He spent a season with Stade Rennes, winning the Coupe de France in 2019 during the presidency of Olivier Létang, whom he will find again in the North. He then signed in Spain at the end of January 2020, in Valladolid, after more than six months without playing.

After only five games, the player trained at OL had left the Iberian club to return to France at the Girondins de Bordeaux in October 2020. In one season, the left-hander had accumulated two goals and five assists in Ligue 1 but had not not extend the adventure in the Southwest. At Losc, he digitally replaces the Turkish Yusuf Yazici, loaned to CSKA Moscow on Wednesday with an option to buy.


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