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Having played in Croatian D2 and the FC Barcelona reserve team, Mikayil Ngor Faye has just signed with Stade Rennais.
Who is Mikayil Ngor Faye? The new Stade Rennais player, announced this Sunday by the Ligue 1 club, is presented as a promising central defender. This is why, we assume, FC Barcelona went to get him in Croatian D2 (NK Kustosija) in the summer of 2023. A year later, the Catalan club no longer wants the 20-year-old Senegalese, until then a resident of the reserve team, Barça Atlètic, with whom he played 35 matches.
The Barcelona leaders managed to recover 10 million euros in the transaction, according to The Teamfrom their Breton counterparts, with a 30% commission clause on resale, FC Barcelona further specified in a press release. Igor Faye, a left-hander measuring 186 centimeters and having one selection with the Senegal A team, has signed with Stade Rennais until June 30, 2028.
“I had the opportunity to speak with Ousmane Dembélé with whom I participated in the 2023 preparation with Barcelona,
explains the player on the Breton club’s website. MBut also Lovro Majer who advised me when I was in Croatia. They both told me that it was the perfect club to continue to progress and that everything would go well.
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