Yannick Ferreira-Carrasco completed this Monday his traspaso to the To the Shabab Saudi, taking advantage of that the market of the Arab league will follow opened until the next 20 September. The operation closed by 15 million euros, 45 'kilos' less than the value of the clause of rescission of the of Ixelles, a disappointing sale that leaves to the Athletic of Madrid without one of his key pieces with the European market already enclosed.
And it is that, from it does several weeks, Yannick had manifested to the managerial 'rojiblanca' his intention to go out, but the operation took more than the expected. Finally, Carrasco will test luck in an exotic league for the second time in his career, since in 2018 had left to the Dalian Yifang Chinese. Curiously, the player returned to Madrid in January of 2020 and the Atleti recovered him by 27 'kilos', €3m less than what the Asian group credited by his traspaso.
Carrasco Preferred to Arabia after being descartado by the Barça
The name of Carrasco was in the orbit culé before finalising the 2022/23, when the player of 30 years crossed a good moment in LaLiga. However, the directive blaugrana descartó his signing because the first option always was to go to by Joao Félix. Yannick Did the pre-season with the Atleti and the club tried to avoid his course, but there was not way and the final offer of the To the Shabab did the difference.
Now, to the ones of Diego Simeone only remains them option of fichar to a free agent to cover the drop of the Belgian, as his traspaso closed by a mount inferior to the value of his clause. In principle, the 'Cholo' considers that with Samuel Lino, Rodrigo Riquelme and Javi Galán has sufficient alternative to cover the 'hollow' left by Carrasco, but the club still has margin for fichar to another player if like this it wishes it, as long as it arrive with letter of freedom.