Ghana and Sunderland striker Asamoah Gyan has made a shock career move by acquiring the necessary documents to be a boxing promoter. The on-loan Al–Ain attacker, who has been successful in his music career, will make another surprise turn into non-football activity next week. He will collaborate with other promoters this month to promote his first fight night as a boxing promoter. Gyan’s outfit, Baby Jet Promotions, will collaborate with Box Office Promotions to put together the fight. “I’ve got the passion for it and I feel like training to maintain my strength, not that I want to fight myself. I love the game, it’s my passion,” Gyan said. “I’ve been following most of the fights and I’m a big fan of Floyd Mayweather and Joshua Clottey. “I have passion for boxing. I am a Ghanaian, I want to help my community, I want to help my country because when I come on holidays it’s like no boxing is going on. “In Ghana we’ve got a lot of great boxers previously talking about Azumah Nelson, Ike Quartey, Joshua Clottey, so we need to push the young ones coming up. “As a Ghanaian I need to encourage the young ones coming up and those who want to achieve their aim.” The boxing night will be headlined by a national bantamweight championship clash between Emmanuel Quartey and Raymond Commey. The bout which comes off at the Lebanon House on 6 July will also have some potentially electrifying supporting bouts. Asamoah Gyan becomes the second football personality in recent times to promote boxing after Heart of Lions Chief Executive Officer Victor Ahiakpor promoted a bout last year.
Even if its not on top of the loan fee at least we have our money back and maybe a bit more so that can go on AJ. Much rather have AJ than McGeady even if it means paying 4 million or so more, quality over quantity right?
Deal done according to the twitterati 15m. If true its an absolutely great deal and will surely be given to Mon. With regard to Adam Johnson it ain't gonna happen and if we are spending 10m+ on anyone it will be a striker
I'd love us to sign Johnson and 15m for Gyan is good for the club too - but if Johnson is MON's summer main target how does everyone feel? I personally think we need a striker more than a Johnson! Only an opinion though although I'm sure that Martin know's what he's doing (a hell of a lot better than I do!!)
This reports says only another 3.5mill for Gyan so probably rubish http://www.sport360.com/article/al-ain-agree-permanent-deal-sunderland-asamoah-gyan?
Paper talk, until the club says anything apart from undisclosed...........................................Hasn't been posted yet but SAFC will sell Gyan for an undisclosed fee. IMO lyke
Good news all round. Get rid of Gyan for top money and bring in a younger better player with more passion for the region for the same money. Job done. Midfield attacking 3 of : Johnson Sess McClean Looks like a winner to me.
He's a world class player and if we have a chance of one of them at the club, we have to go for it. I still can't see it happening though.
The deal, which will see Al Ain stump up an additional €3.5million, is expected to be completed "in the next few days" when Gyan is due to return to the UAE after a summer vacation in his native Ghana. Having rubbished reports Gyan was to put pen-to-paper on a five-year deal with the UAE giants worth a mind boggling €250,ooo-a-week, the source did admit that Al Ain's offer is "more lucrative than his Sunderland contract". "Talk of a deal worth €60million is just absurd. It's a crazy amount of money. Teams in the UAE are also going through a financial crisis. It's not what everyone thinks. It's not China, it's not Russia. So those figures mentioned are just ridiculous."
according to today's journal we're only going to receive another 4m tops. The truth is that if you're not sitting in the same room when the contract is signed then no ****er knows especially journalists who would print anything but the truth, personally i don't give a **** how much we get as long as we sign 2 maybe 3 quality forwards which i'm sure we will, gyan can go and **** himself
SUNDERLAND will not pocket anywhere near a reported £15million figure for Asamoah Gyan, as the striker nears a permanent exit. But neither are Sunderland expected to make a loss on the Ghanaian striker, as negotiations continue to seal his switch to Al-Ain. The saga of Sunderland’s sale of Gyan drags on, with the 26-year-old (right) yet to finalise his move away from the Black Cats. Reports in Gyan’s homeland this week suggested Sunderland were set to receive around £15m from Al-Ain, as the UAE outfit convert his loan move into a permanent deal. That figure is wide of the mark with Sunderland in line to pocket a a more modest one, understood to be closer to £6m, in addition to the £6m loan fee they received from Al-Ain last September. The total recouped would be less than the £13m figure Sunderland agreed with French outfit Rennes to sign Gyan two years ago. But that £13m fee was based on a number of add-ons and Sunderland’s outlay on Gyan will ultimately fall short of what would have made him the club’s record signing. Interest from elsewhere in the Middle East and from Turkish outfit Galatasary could see Sunderland pocket even more for Gyan. But a permanent fee was pencilled into the loan agreement with Al-Ain and the UAE league champions are firm favourites to land the former Udinese striker. Gyan has kept his options open over his future, albeit he has no chance of a return to Wearside, with Martin O’Neill happy to approve the exit of a hitman who scored 11 goals in 37 appearances for the Black Cats. Yet the lucrative prospect of remaining at Al-Ain was always likely to attract Gyan to stay in the Middle East after finding the net 25 times last season. Reports today suggest Gyan’s deal could be worth up to £140,000 a week, double the massive wage hike agreed when he joined Al-Ain on loan for an estimated £70,000 a week tax-free.
