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After one season in the Premier League, Moussa Diaby will already be leaving Aston Villa and joining Al-Ittihad in Saudi Arabia. Having arrived last summer for €55 million after spending four seasons at Bayer Leverkusen, the 25-year-old winger lost his place in Unai Emery’s ranks, but finished with a promising record of 54 games played in all competitions, for a total of ten goals scored and nine assists provided.
As we announced, the player trained at Paris Saint-Germain was greatly courted by Saudi Arabia and particularly by the Al-Ittihad club, where his compatriots Karim Benzema and N’Golo Kanté play, having arrived in June 2023 at the Jeddah club. Aston Villa had received a nice offer of 55 million euros from the Saudi club to secure the services of its striker, who is under contract until 2028 with the Birmingham club.
Medical visit in sight
According to our information, everything is speeding up for Moussa Diaby. The left-footed winger will undergo his medical examination in the coming hours with Al-Ittihad, before signing his new five-year contract with the residents of the King Abdullah Stadium. With this major arrival, Moussa Diaby will join the top 5 biggest transfers in the history of the Saudi Pro League.
A great coup by the new team of Laurent Blanc, officially appointed as the new coach of the Saudi team on July 13. After a disappointing season marked by several failures (5th place in the Saudi Pro League, quarter-finalist in the AFC Champions League, FIFA Club World Cup and Arab Champions Cup, unfortunate finalist in the Saudi Super Cup, semi-finalist in the Saudi King’s Cup), Al-Ittihad intends to return to the top of the table on the Saudi and Asian scene.
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