- The 38-year-old will join former France teammate Hugo Lloris in Los Angeles
- The World Cup winner has 13 goals and 8 assists with Milan so far this season
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LAFC appear to secure the signature of AC Milan star and French international Olivier Giroud on a free transfer as reports of a deal between the player and the club have emerged.
According to transfer guru Fabrizio Romano, Giroud signed a contract to join the Black and Gold this summer on Tuesday, just a month after verbally agreeing to join the MLS team in March. His new contract will run until December 2025.
Giroud will join his close friend and France teammate Hugo Lloris in Los Angeles next season.
“Giroud can be considered a new LAFC player,” Romano shared on To this year in the process.
Earlier this spring, Giroud was linked with a move to the US, Saudi Arabia and even staying in Europe, but it appears he has now made up his mind. He will earn $3.2 million a year as a player for Los Angeles FC, according to ESPN.
Olivier Giroud will earn up to $3.2 million a year until December 2025, according to reports
The former Arsenal and Chelsea striker has scored 13 goals and eight assists in 30 Serie A games for Milan so far this season and is still part of Didier Deschamps’ France squad.
Giroud holds the record for the French national team’s highest scorer (57 in 131 international matches).
He will move to Los Angeles after playing Euro 2024 in Germany, where France is considered a big favorite for the title.
LAFC signed 39-year-old forward Kei Kamara last week to add to their scoring woes this season after parting ways with Carlos Vela in 2023.
The 38-year-old, who has scored 276 goals in almost 700 career club appearances, will join former teammate and France goalkeeper Hugo Llloris in Los Angeles. Both seen at the 2022 World Cup
Nine games into the 2024 season, the Black and Gold sit in seventh place in the Western Conference with a 3-3-3 record. Giroud will reinforce an attack with MLS golden boot winner Denis Bouanga.
MLS will be Giroud’s sixth different league in his career after starting in Franche’s National (third division), Ligue 2 and Ligue 1 with Grenoble, Istres, Tours and Montpellier, where he won the French title in 2012.
He then moved to England to play in the Premier League, first with Arsenal, where he won three FA Cups, and then with Chelsea, where he won the Champions League, Europa League and FA Cup. He joined AC Milan in 2021, winning the Serie A title in his first season.
Giroud, who scored 276 goals in almost 700 appearances at club level, was also part of France’s World Cup-winning team in 2018, playing in all seven matches. He also played for France in two other World Cups and three European Championships.
