Kante joins Benzema at Al-Ittihad as Saudi Arabia entices another star player
Saudi Arabian soccer champion Al-Ittihad has one other high-profile French participant to accompany Karim Benzema on the group subsequent season.
N’Golo Kante accomplished his transfer from Chelsea on Wednesday, with Al-Ittihad welcoming the 32-year-old midfielder with a collection of tweets containing the hashtag “WelcomeBox2Box” — referring to his hard-running fashion of play.
He will reportedly earn greater than $100 million throughout the size of a four-year deal at a membership primarily based in Jeddah and coached by former Tottenham and Wolverhampton supervisor Nuno Espirito Santo. It just lately received the Saudi league forward of Cristiano Ronaldo’s Al-Nassr.
Kante, who received the World Cup with France in 2018, the Champions League with Chelsea in 2021 and has been the most effective gamers within the Premier League lately as a back-to-back champion with Leicester and Chelsea, has struggled with accidents over the previous two seasons.
That hasn’t delay Al-Ittihad from apparently spending large on Kante, a number of weeks after bringing in Benzema after the expiry of the reigning world participant of the yr’s contract at Real Madrid. There was not instantly an announcement on Al-Ittihad’s web site concerning Kante’s signing.
The large names _ albeit gamers nearing the top of their careers — are being enticed to the Saudi league, the place spending is being fueled by a transfer by the dominion’s sovereign wealth Public Investment Fund to take a majority possession stake in 4 of the nation’s high golf equipment, together with Al-Ittihad and Al-Nassr. The transfer is a part of a “privatization project” that encourages public sector organizations to put money into sports activities, with soccer groups a precedence beneath the initiative backed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Another of these 4 groups, Al-Hilal, tried to purchase Lionel Messi however Argentina’s World Cup winner determined to hitch Inter Miami within the United States.
A slew of main gamers are being linked with strikes to Saudi Arabia on this European offseason, together with Manchester City winger Riyad Mahrez, Chelsea goalkeeper Edouard Mendy and Wolverhampton midfielder Ruben Neves.
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