AC Milan forward Olivier Giroud will leave the Italian club when his contract ends and join MLS team LAFC, according to a report.
France veteran Giroud has reached an agreement to move to Los Angeles on an 18-month contract with the option of an extension for the same period, RMC Sport has said.
The outlet added that the move will keep the 57-goal top scorer for Les Bleus out of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games football tournament, which run from July 24 until August 10.
Should the move happen, Giroud will be reunited with goalkeeper Hugo Lloris. The pair won the 2018 Fifa World Cup and reached the final of the tournament in 2022.
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Milan want to extend Giroud’s contract but the 37-year-old wants to play in a new country, RMC said.
LAFC won the Western Conference and finished top overall in the MLS in 2019 and 2022, winning the play-offs in the latter season.
The residents of the 22,000-capacity BMO Stadium also lifted the MLS Cup in 2022. They are currently seventh in their division, occupying the final place offering qualification for the final series after winning, drawing and losing three each of their first nine matches.
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Former Montpellier, Arsenal and Chelsea hotshot Giroud is one of the most successful players of the modern era.
Now 37, he won Ligue 1 in 2012 and the FA Cup three times with the Gunners, for whom he scored 73 league goals in six seasons.
He won the Uefa Champions League, Europa League and the FA Cup once each during three years with Chelsea before moving to Milan in 2021, where he was a Serie A champion in his first season.
Milan have used Giroud in all but two of the games he has been available for this season, receiving a return of 15 goals and nine assists in 42 appearances.
That included a purple patch of three goals and three assists in the first five matches of the campaign and a run of eight goals and five assists in 14 games between October and February.
