Roma to sign Sevilla ace Steven Nzonzi for £28.5m after World Cup heroics for France
Director of football Monchi has clearly been pulling the strings with his former club to bring the World Cup-winning midfielder to Serie A on a cut-price deal
ROMA are set to sign former Stoke and Blackburn ace Steven N’Zonzi for a cool £28.5million.
Monchi, the Italian club’s director of football, appears to have been pulling the strings at his former club to bring the World Cup-winning midfielder to Serie A on a cut-price deal.
According to , the 29-year-old is “one step away” from the Stadio Olimpico.
N’Zonzi will sign a four-year contract with Roma, on around £60,000-a-week.
The former Premier League midfielder moved to Sevilla in 2015 and has played 137 games at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan.
Monchi used to be director of football at the La Liga club until he moved to the Italian capital last summer.
And he has been able to convince Sevilla to part with the midfielder who played at Stoke for three seasons.
N’Zonzi was not part of Pablo Machin’s squad for the 2-1 Spanish Super Cup defeat to Barcelona.
And no doubt Roma will unveil the player in typically satirical fashion on social media.
Monchi has already had a promising first full summer as director of football at the club, signing the likes of Justin Kluivert from Ajax, Javier Pastore from Paris Saint-Germain, Gregoire Defrel from Sassuolo, Davide Santon from Inter, Patrik Schick from Sampdoria and Bryan Cristante on loan from Atalanta.
