Bundesliga club Hoffenheim have signed Nigerian striker Gift Orban on a long-term deal – reportedly a four-year contract – from French Ligue 1 giants Olympique Lyon.
The 22-year-old Nigerian will star in the number 14 shirt for the German side and hope to enjoy more game time at the Kraichgau having made only 21 appearances in the year spent at Lyon – including just three games in Ligue 1.
“In Gift Orban we have found exactly the fast striker with good depth that we were looking for,” Andreas Schicker, Hoffenheim’s Managing Director of Sport said at Orban’s unveiling.
Schicker added, “Gift has repeatedly demonstrated his goal threat and his joy of playing in his previous positions, so we are convinced that his skills will give our team greater variability in attack.”