Werder confirms Naby Keïta’s departure this summer

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By: Manu Tournoux

Back after playing in the Olympic Games with Guinea, Naby Keïta will not resume training with Werder Bremen. The Bundesliga club announced this in a press release on Thursday. The discussion was very open and we came to a joint decision that we felt was the most appropriate for the situation. On the one hand, we wanted to fully concentrate on the rest of our pre-season and the start of the new campaign and, on the other hand, Naby had been thinking this way for some time. “, explained Clemens Fritz, football director of the German club.

As his situation within the team has not changed, he would like to look for a new challenge. Together with his agent, we want to sort this out as quickly as possible. » Having arrived as a free agent last summer from Liverpool, the 29-year-old midfielder has only played five matches and 107 minutes with Werder, who then sidelined him. He played two of the three matches for Guinea U23 at the Paris Olympics, including the match they lost to France (1-0). They were eliminated at the end of the group stage.