ANKARA, July 19 (Xinhua) -- Turkey's Galatasaray soccer club on Thursday signed a five-year contract with Moroccan player Nordin Amrabat, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.

The club stated that it reached an agreement with Amrabat for five soccer seasons starting from 2012-2013 season.

Galatasaray will pay eight million euro to Amrabat's former club Kayserispor as well as 600,000 euro to the previous club PSV Eindhoven.

Amrabat, born in 1987, is a Dutch-Moroccan football player.

On January 3, 2011 Amrabat had signed for Turkish club Kayserispor on a four and a half year deal for 1.1 million euro.