Dries Mertens, a former Belgium international, announced that he would retire from football at the end of this month. His contract with Galatasaray is scheduled to expire at the end of this month.
The 38-year-old said he was hanging up his boots in a video that was posted on social media on Sunday but that Marek Hamsik, his former Napoli teammate, would play in an exhibition game in July.
Mertens has the all-time best goalscorer record at 148 against Napoli.
Before moving to Galatasaray, where he won three consecutive Turkish Super Lig titles in 2022, he won two Italian Cups while there.
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