(Madrid) The Moroccan goalkeeper of Sevilla FC Yassine Bounou has signed up with the Saudi club Al-Hilal where he notably joins the Brazilian Neymar, transferred this week from PSG, the two teams announced on Friday.
“Sevilla FC and Al-Hilal have reached an agreement for the transfer of goalkeeper Bounou,” the Andalusian club said in a statement while Al-Hilal released a video on X (ex-Twitter) in which the player expressed in Arabic.
The amount of the operation, which has not been revealed, is estimated by the Spanish press at 20 million euros. Bounou, born in Montreal before moving to Morocco at a very young age, arrives in Saudi Arabia after four years in Seville, where he arrived from Girona in the summer of 2019.
His name had recently circulated on the side of Real Madrid, after the injury of Thibaut Courtois, but the White House finally opted for Kepa Arrizabalaga.
Nicknamed “Bono”, the international goalkeeper semi-finalist of the World Cup in Qatar in 2022 has played 142 official games with Sevilla, with whom he has won two Europa League titles (2020, 2023).
He was lined up on Wednesday when the Spanish club lost in the European Super Cup to Manchester City, winners of the Champions League.
Bounou, 32, joins Brazilian striker Neymar, whose signing was announced on Tuesday by Al-Hilal, which also has Senegalese Kalidou Koulibaly (ex-Naples and Chelsea) and Serbian Sergej Milinkovic-Savic (ex-Naples and Chelsea) in its ranks. Lazio Rome).
