Mostafa Mohamed joins Konyaspor on three-year deal after Nantes relegation

Konyaspor completes a three-year deal

Egyptian striker Mostafa Mohamed completed a permanent move from Nantes to Konyaspor on 1 September 2026, signing a three-year contract with the Turkish Süper Lig club for a transfer fee of €750,000, according to Ahram Online. The 28-year-old forward's exit brings an end to a four-year relationship with the French club that began with a loan move in 2022.

The move follows Nantes' relegation to Ligue 2 at the end of last season. Mohamed also returned late for pre-season training, and the French club sent him to train away from the first-team squad while a transfer was arranged, Ahram Online reported. The relegation triggered a salary cut written into his contract, and, according to KingFut, Mohamed made clear he did not want to spend the season playing Ligue 2 football.

Egyptian football outlet KingFut, which first reported the deal as close to completion on 29 August 2026, said Nantes fined Mohamed for failing to report back by 24 June and had him train with the club's reserves once he returned in July. KingFut said Konyaspor would pay the transfer fee in three instalments, and that the move had been waiting on the exit of Kramer, a Slovenian striker who has since agreed to join Antalyaspor, clearing a foreign-player slot at the Turkish club. That report described the switch as pending only a medical and Konyaspor's final sign-off; three days later, Ahram Online confirmed it was done.

We welcome Mostafa Mohamed and wish him success in our green-and-white colours. — Konyaspor, official club statement

Four seasons at Nantes end in relegation

Mohamed joined Nantes on loan from Galatasaray in 2022, and the French club paid a permanent fee of around €6 million for him in 2023, according to KingFut. Across four seasons at Nantes he scored 29 goals and added 8 assists in 136 appearances in all competitions, Ahram Online reported. In Ligue 1 alone he made 119 appearances. Konyaspor's €750,000 fee is a fraction of what Nantes paid three years ago, a gap that reflects both his reduced market value after relegation and the one year left on his Nantes contract.

In his most recent season, 2025-26, Mohamed scored four goals in 24 Ligue 1 appearances, KingFut reported, as Nantes were relegated to Ligue 2 at the end of the campaign. He had one year left on his contract when Nantes and Konyaspor began talks, and his existing deal already carried the salary reduction that comes with relegation, according to KingFut.

Taken together, the disciplinary episode and the relegation explain the timing: a forward who missed pre-season training in June, then trained apart from the first team once he returned in July, watched his club drop into Ligue 2 in the same window. A move to a Süper Lig side that still wanted him, on a fee within his reduced market value, suited both parties within weeks of the season ending.

Back to Turkish football, in Konya this time

This is Mohamed's second spell in Turkish football. He joined Galatasaray from Zamalek in 2021 and scored 17 goals in 58 Süper Lig appearances for the Istanbul club before moving to Nantes on loan the following year, according to Ahram Online and KingFut. Konyaspor becomes his third European club since leaving Egypt, and his fourth club overall counting Zamalek.

The move follows a path several Egyptian forwards have taken through Turkish football in recent years, and it gives Mohamed the chance to rebuild form in a league where he has scored goals before. It also solves an immediate problem for Konyaspor, which needed a replacement forward once Kramer's move to Antalyaspor was agreed, and it gives the player Süper Lig football again just as the new season gets under way.

Mohamed's path from Egypt to Turkey, to France and back to Turkey now spans five years and four clubs:

• Zamalek, Egypt — where Mohamed began his senior career
• Galatasaray, 2021-2022 — 17 goals in 58 Süper Lig appearances
• Nantes, loan in 2022 then a permanent €6 million transfer in 2023 — 29 goals and 8 assists in 136 appearances in all competitions across four seasons
• Konyaspor, from 1 September 2026 — a three-year contract for a €750,000 transfer fee

What comes next

Mohamed is a 28-year-old Egyptian striker for whom regular first-team football matters most at this stage of his career. He spent part of last summer training away from Nantes' senior squad while the relegated club sorted out his exit, time that would otherwise have gone toward pre-season fitness and match sharpness.

The move to Konyaspor gives him a fresh three-year contract and, in principle, the regular football that his final months in France did not provide. Whether that leads to more first-team minutes is now a question for Konyaspor's coaching staff, not the transfer itself, but a settled club situation is the baseline every forward needs after a disrupted close season.

For Nantes, the transfer closes a four-year relationship with a player the club first signed on loan in 2022 and later paid around €6 million to sign outright, as the club turns to rebuilding a squad for life in Ligue 2. For Konyaspor, it adds a forward with a proven scoring record in the Süper Lig, for little more than a tenth of what Nantes once paid to sign him, on a deal Ahram Online confirmed was finalised on 1 September 2026. Both clubs, in different ways, are starting a new season shaped by decisions made in the transfer window's final days.