Kolkata: The Indian Super League franchises continue to spend in the transfer market as the teams are planning to complete the signings of their foreign footballers for the forthcoming season. Except NorthEast United, all the teams are on war footing to complete their quota of foreigners. Mumbai City FC is the latest to sign a foreign footballer.
Indian Super League franchise Mumbai City FC have secured the loan signing of 22-year-old attacking midfielder Thiago Santos from Brazilian Série A club Flamengo. The speculation was doing the rounds in the last couple of weeks until Interactive Sports confirmed the signing on Monday, August 21, according to the report, which also says the player has been signed on a seven-month contract by the Ranbir Kapoor co-owned club.
Santos joined the Flamengo side as a teenager aged 17. Coming through the rank’s of Flamengo’s youth team, the midfielder made his senior team debut at the beginning of 2016, but however, was limited to sporadic opportunities.