Omar Marmoush: Egypt's Football Forward, His Clubs, Wages and Caps

Omar Marmoush is an Egyptian forward, born in Cairo on 7 February 1999, who signed for Manchester City from Eintracht Frankfurt on 23 January 2025. He plays his international football (or soccer, for readers in Johannesburg and Durban) for Egypt, and CAF named him among the younger attackers in the side that qualified for the 2026 World Cup on 8 October 2025. Every club, fee, wage figure with its outlet, the Egypt record and kick off times for all five countries follow.

In a Lagos viewing centre, Egypt still means Mohamed Salah first, and Marmoush is the name that comes up beside him. In Cairo, Egypt matches are traditionally watched in neighbourhood coffee houses, where a Pharaohs game fills every table and a new forward is judged in real time. If you want to know what Marmoush cost, what he earns and where he fits beside Salah, each answer here is dated and sourced, and the live numbers sit in the modules above.

Who Is Omar Marmoush?

Omar Marmoush is a Cairo born forward who has played his international football for Egypt, with a senior debut in 2021. His club career has run through Egypt, Germany and England, and the stops are set out with their reported fees in the table below.

Why should a reader in Accra or Kampala follow an Egyptian forward? The AFCON rivalry comes first. Egypt are one of the continent's established tournament sides, so a Pharaohs forward is someone your own defenders may one day have to stop. The second reason is money. His reported wage after the City move is a question many readers ask, so the figures follow with their outlets in the net worth section.

The Road From Cairo: Every Club and Every Reported Fee

Marmoush's road began in Cairo at Wadi Degla, the club whose youth system produced him. He then moved to Germany with VfL Wolfsburg, and the fee for that move is not part of the published record. That was the start of a patient German apprenticeship, the kind that rewards a young forward who is willing to wait.

His breakthrough came on loan. At FC St. Pauli in 2020-21 he scored seven goals in 21 appearances. At VfB Stuttgart in 2021-22 he added three in 21, so he learned German football's pace in the second tier first and then in the top flight.

Eintracht Frankfurt signed him in 2023, and that is where the record book really opens. Pulse Nigeria (2025) reported his pay there at about €2.5 million a year, with no endorsement deals listed. Frankfurt then sold him in January 2025 for a reported fee of around €70 million, which makes the Frankfurt years a useful lesson in how quickly a forward's price can rise.

Manchester City signed him on 23 January 2025 on a contract of four and a half years, running to the summer of 2029. Al Jazeera reported the initial fee at about $72.6 million plus about $5 million in potential bonuses. Other outlets gave about €70 million (£59 million) with bonuses, and the fee was never officially published. His appearances and goals for City are in the stats module, which updates after every match.

What Did the City Move Change?

The City move turned Marmoush from a Bundesliga story into a Premier League one, and the coverage followed him across Africa. Citizen Digital in Kenya reported the signing in January 2025, which shows how closely East African readers were watching. The questions in Lagos and Johannesburg were the same ones: what did he cost, and what does he earn?

The 2029 date belongs to his City contract. The club panel above shows where he is registered as it stands, so these details stay accurate whatever the next transfer window brings. For African fans, the Premier League slot also means his matches sit in the same viewing windows they already plan around.

What Does Marmoush Do on the Pitch?

Marmoush is a forward who has been used both through the middle and from a wide position, which is why Nigerian and Kenyan fans call him a Man City winger and a striker in the same breath. That flexibility is his calling card, because his coaches in Germany and England have each found a clear role for him. His game leans on movement, carrying the ball and shooting.

A defining moment is his signing for Manchester City on 23 January 2025, which took a Bundesliga forward into the Premier League. Plenty of forwards take a year to settle after a move like that, and the results module on the page records the scorers from each match he plays, so you can judge the settling in for yourself.

The comparison every African fan makes is with Mohamed Salah, and it holds up to a point. Both are Egyptian forwards who made their names in Europe, both can play off a flank, and both carry the Pharaohs' attacking hopes. Salah has been Egypt's reference point for years, with nine goals in the 2026 World Cup qualifying campaign alone, while Marmoush brings a different profile. He works as a partner for Salah in attack as well as a successor.

For this season's goals, minutes and assists, use the player stats module above, which updates after every match. Read it beside the career table and compare each season with his earlier ones. When reading a quiet spell, look at what the module shows beyond goals, because a forward used wide shows his value in chances created as well as goals.

Marmoush and the Pharaohs: Debut, Caps and the Records Module

Marmoush made his senior debut for Egypt in 2021. Egypt are the Pharaohs to fans from Lagos to Kampala, and a new forward in the squad steps straight into a long Egyptian tournament story. It also makes him a familiar name to Super Eagles and Black Stars fans, who follow every serious AFCON contender closely.

The caps module above carries the live count and updates after every international window. Profiles around the web give different totals, and some of them are out of date, so if two figures disagree, use the module, because it is fed from match records rather than copied from an older profile.

Egypt qualified for the 2026 World Cup on 8 October 2025, beating Djibouti 3-0 to finish top of Group A with a match to spare. Their campaign brought 19 goals in nine matches with only two conceded. Salah scored nine of those goals, Trezeguet scored five and Zizo scored two. CAF named Marmoush alongside Mostafa Mohamed among the younger attacking options, which suggests Egypt see him as central to what comes after Salah.

The 2026 finals give Egypt a fourth chance to build on 1934, 1990 and 2018. That history is why a Pharaohs forward matters to the whole continent and not only to Cairo. For Super Eagles, Black Stars, Bafana Bafana, Harambee Stars and Cranes fans, Egypt are a rival at AFCON and a fellow flag bearer at the World Cup. Their tournament results are kept in the records module above.

Omar Marmoush net worth

Net worth means assets minus debts. A footballer's savings, property and investments are private, so the published numbers are attributed estimates and each is given here with its outlet. Pulse Nigeria (2025) estimated about £4 million before the City move and reported about £15 million a year at City.

On wages, Pulse Nigeria (2025) reported about €2.5 million a year at Eintracht Frankfurt, with no endorsement deals listed. Sky Germany's Florian Plettenberg (2025), as carried by Get Football News Germany, reported €16 to 17 million a year before deductions, about €10 million net. Goal (2025) reported £295,000 a week. The National listed Marmoush's wage at £295,000 a week for 2026/27, third on the Manchester City list behind Erling Haaland (£525,000) and Jack Grealish (£300,000). That works out at roughly £15.3 million a year before deductions. These are press estimates rather than figures published by the club.

Market value, where you see it quoted, is an estimate of what a club might pay for a player. It is not net worth, because that money would go to the selling club.

How should you read the money? The fee City paid, reported at around €70 million, went to Eintracht Frankfurt rather than to Marmoush. His wage is the money that reaches him, and even that is a gross figure before deductions, agents and living costs, so £295,000 a week is not £295,000 saved. In naira, shillings, rand or cedis, the pound figure moves with the exchange rate every day. Convert it on the day you read it rather than relying on a figure frozen in an old article.

How to Watch Marmoush From Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and Uganda

In all five countries, Premier League football is watched on pay TV, on streaming services and in the bars and viewing centres that fill up when the big clubs play. The broadcast panel above lists who shows each match in your country, because rights change and a written channel name would soon be out of date. Egypt's internationals are listed the same way when the Pharaohs play.

The fixtures module shows kick off times in WAT, EAT, SAST and GMT together. As a guide, a Saturday Premier League match at 17:30 GMT is 17:30 in Accra, 18:30 WAT in Lagos, 19:30 SAST in Johannesburg and 20:30 EAT in Nairobi and Kampala. When England is on summer time, from late March to late October, the same London 17:30 start falls at 16:30 GMT, 17:30 WAT, 18:30 SAST and 19:30 EAT.

Whether you follow him from a Surulere viewing centre or a Westlands bar, the routine is the same. Check the fixtures module for the time in your zone, the lineup module to see whether he starts, and the results module afterwards for the scorers. If Marmoush is your way into Egyptian football, start with our profiles of other African footballers in Europe, which give dated moves alongside the live numbers in the same way.