It is now known to all: Saudi Arabia has decided to be very active on the transfer market. The biggest clubs in the country multiply contacts and manage to recover very great players. From Cristiano Ronaldo to Karim Benzema via N’Golo Kanté, Riyad Mahrez or Kalidou Koulibaly, all have succumbed to calls from Saudi clubs. And it shouldn’t stop there as Sadio Mané is very close to joining Al-Nassr.
But another club also wants to strengthen considerably this summer: Al-Hilal. After registering the arrivals of Ruben Neves, Milinkovic-Savic, Kalidou Koulibaly and Malcom, the unfortunate finalist of the last Asian Champions League also wants to hit hard as a striker. In this sense, several attackers were contacted such as Romelu Lukaku, Alvaro Morata or Aleksandar Mitrović, without success. And this time, Al-Hilal wants to try to recover a symbol of Morocco’s last run at the World Cup: Youssef-En Nesyri.
45 million for Sevilla, 45 million for the player
According to daily information AS, Al-Hilal is ready to drop a very nice sum at Sevilla FC to afford the 26-year-old Moroccan striker. The Spanish club has economic concerns and will not retain its player, especially in the event of a good offer. And precisely, the Saudi club is quite simply ready to pay 45 million euros for En-Nesyri. A very large sum which should not make the last winner of the Europa League hesitate for long even if the Moroccan finished the season as the club’s top scorer in all competitions.
The Spanish press also indicates that Al-Hilal will put the means to convince the player to leave Europe and go to Saudi Arabia. A salary of 15 million per year and a 3-year contract are mentioned in particular. A strong argument to push the player to give up European football when he is also being tracked in the Premier League and has so far refused to. Be that as it may, the incumbent striker from Morocco will soon have to make a choice regarding his future. And his choice will inevitably be very scrutinized by Moroccan supporters a few months before the African Cup.
